Senior Backend Developer

About Us

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.

Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

What will you do?

• Connect the dots between business goals and consumer problems through product development
• Solve the most challenging problem of scaling and business logic
• Design and develop services using test driven development with near 100% code coverage
• Develop and deploy services continuously using CI/CD on a daily basis
• Identify and own meaningful metrics for success and move them dramatically.
• Prepare and present management updates on key initiatives. Communicate clearly at all levels in the organization.
• Conduct multivariate experiments to constantly validate hypotheses and bash all the myths

You should apply, if you

• Display expertise: Have strong proficiency with Nodejs, My SQL, MongoDB and Caching and with code versioning tools, such as Git
• Can improvise: Understand the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Showcase all round knowledge: Understand accessibility, security compliance, user authentication, and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Can simplify: Can integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. This also includes creating database schemas that represent and support business processes, and can implement unit tests
• Can figure out the basics: Understand fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Being a Part of the Clan!

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

Role: Backend Developer-SDE2

• 3-5 years of exp into

Responsibilities:

• Work on the development backend systems for our first product.
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.

Requirements:

• 3-4 years of software development experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Good knowledge of Java ecosystem.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant.
• Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs.

• Well versed in Core Java, OOPs concepts, collections, multi-threading, concurrency, lambdas, and streams.
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring Core, MVC, JPA, Security, transaction
• Working knowledge of REST API designing as well as development, using Spring.
• Exposure to Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift for the microservices environment.
• Savvy with SQL and database concepts.
• Ability to use frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc., for implementing unit testing.
• Sound understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/bit bucket with Maven.
• Should have worked in a CI/CD environment with TeamCity/Jenkins.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team