
Role Overview:
As a Backend Developer at LearnTube.ai, you will ship the backbone that powers 2.3 million learners in 64 countries—owning APIs that crunch 1 billion learning events & the AI that supports it with <200 ms latency.
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What You'll Do:
At LearnTube, we’re pushing the boundaries of Generative AI to revolutionise how the world learns. As a Backend Engineer, you will be building the backend for an AI system and working directly on AI. Your roles and responsibilities will include:
- Ship Micro-services – Build FastAPI services that handle ≈ 800 req/s today and will triple within a year (sub-200 ms p95).
- Power Real-Time Learning – Drive the quiz-scoring & AI-tutor engines that crunch millions of events daily.
- Design for Scale & Safety – Model data (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, SQS) and craft modular, secure back-end components from scratch.
- Deploy Globally – Roll out Dockerised services behind NGINX on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) and GCP (GKE) via Kubernetes.
- Automate Releases – GitLab CI/CD + blue-green / canary = multiple safe prod deploys each week.
- Own Reliability – Instrument with Prometheus / Grafana, chase 99.9 % uptime, trim infra spend.
- Expose Gen-AI at Scale – Publish LLM inference & vector-search endpoints in partnership with the AI team.
- Ship Fast, Learn Fast – Work with founders, PMs, and designers in weekly ship rooms; take a feature from Figma to prod in < 2 weeks.
What makes you a great fit?
Must-Haves:
- 2+ yrs Python back-end experience (FastAPI)
- Strong with Docker & container orchestration
- Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or GCP (GKE / Compute) in production
- SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB) + You’ve built systems from scratch & have solid system-design fundamentals
Nice-to-Haves
- k8s at scale, Terraform,
- Experience with AI/ML inference services (LLMs, vector DBs)
- Go / Rust for high-perf services
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
About Us:
At LearnTube, we’re on a mission to make learning accessible, affordable, and engaging for millions of learners globally. Using Generative AI, we transform scattered internet content into dynamic, goal-driven courses with:
- AI-powered tutors that teach live, solve doubts in real time, and provide instant feedback.
- Seamless delivery through WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web, with over 1.4 million learners across 64 countries.
Meet the Founders:
LearnTube was founded by Shronit Ladhani and Gargi Ruparelia, who bring deep expertise in product development and ed-tech innovation. Shronit, a TEDx speaker, is an advocate for disrupting traditional learning, while Gargi’s focus on scalable AI solutions drives our mission to build an AI-first company that empowers learners to achieve career outcomes. We’re proud to be recognised by Google as a Top 20 AI Startup and are part of their 2024 Startups Accelerator: AI First Program, giving us access to cutting-edge technology, credits, and mentorship from industry leaders.
Why Work With Us?
At LearnTube, we believe in creating a work environment that’s as transformative as the products we build. Here’s why this role is an incredible opportunity:
- Cutting-Edge Technology: You’ll work on state-of-the-art generative AI applications, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, multimodal AI, and real-time systems.
- Autonomy and Ownership: Experience unparalleled flexibility and independence in a role where you’ll own high-impact projects from ideation to deployment.
- Rapid Growth: Accelerate your career by working on impactful projects that pack three years of learning and growth into one.
- Founder and Advisor Access: Collaborate directly with founders and industry experts, including the CTO of Inflection AI, to build transformative solutions.
- Team Culture: Join a close-knit team of high-performing engineers and innovators, where every voice matters, and Monday morning meetings are something to look forward to.
- Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s redefining education for millions of learners and making AI accessible to everyone.

About LearnTube.ai
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At LearnTube, we're reimagining how the world learns making education accessible, affordable, and outcome-driven using Generative AI. Our platform turns scattered internet content into structured, personalised learning journeys using:
- AI-powered tutors that teach live, solve doubts instantly, and give real-time feedback
- Frictionless delivery via WhatsApp, mobile, and web
- Trusted by 2.2 million learners across 64 countries
Founded by Shronit Ladhani and Gargi Ruparelia, both second-time entrepreneurs and ed-tech builders:
- Shronit is a TEDx speaker and an outspoken advocate for disrupting traditional learning systems.
- Gargi is one of the Top Women in AI in India, recognised by the government, and leads our AI and scalability roadmap.
Together, they bring deep product thinking, bold storytelling, and executional clarity to LearnTube’s vision. LearnTube is proudly backed by Google as part of their 2024 AI First Accelerator, giving us access to cutting-edge tech, mentorship, and cloud credits.
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At LearnTube, we’re on a mission to make learning accessible, affordable, and engaging for millions of learners globally. Using Generative AI, we transform scattered internet content into dynamic, goal-driven courses with:
- AI-powered tutors that teach live, solve doubts in real time, and provide instant feedback.
- Seamless delivery through WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web, with over 1.4 million learners across 64 countries.
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- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Core Java and Spring Boot
- Develop and optimize queries in MongoDB, including aggregation and indexing
- Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services
- Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code following best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and implement requirements
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in Core Java
- Strong expertise in Spring Boot (REST APIs, Security, Data)
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB (CRUD operations, schema design)
- Experience with Microservices architecture
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Design systems independently with minimal interaction from the architects
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Lead a team of software developers to implement systems
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Continuously find ways to increase the quality of the code
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Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to
standard.
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Anticipates problems and future technical needs and takes necessary steps to address issues.
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Enthusiastically follow industry trends and developments
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Understands how various technology and tools work so that the team picks the right tool for the
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We are seeking a talented and motivated Backend Developer to join our dynamic team. As a senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing and expanding our AI productivity tool, working on the intersection of natural language understanding (NLU), event-condition-action (ECA) frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement advanced features for our AI productivity tool.
- Innovate and propose creative solutions to enhance the functionality and user experience of the platform.
- Develop back-end components of the AI productivity tool, ensuring performance and scalability.
- Design and implement robust backend services and APIs using Python- Django.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Proven experience (3-4 years) as a Software Development Engineer, with a focus on Python- Django
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively.
- Ability to take up different tech stacks.
- Mathematical experience preferred.
- Proficiency in Backend Technologies as well as a basic understanding of Frontend technologies.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with cloud platforms and services.
- Experience with Frontend Technologies.
- Track record of contributing to open-source projects.
- Passion for staying updated on the latest trends in AI and technology.
As an SSE, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems
that power our platform. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Python Django and a
strong understanding of databases, caching, and distributed systems.
● Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems using
Python Django.
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate
them into technical solutions.
● Optimize application performance and scalability by implementing caching strategies, load
balancing, and distributed computing techniques.
● Ensure data integrity and security by implementing best practices for data storage, retrieval,
and access control.
● Develop and maintain integrations with external APIs and services to support seamless
interactions with third-party systems.
● Identify and address performance bottlenecks and other system issues to improve overall
system efficiency.
● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry-standard coding practices.
● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to ensure code quality and
adherence to best practices.
● Mentor junior team members and assist in their professional growth.
Desired Candidate Profile
- A team focus with strong collaboration and communication skills
- Exceptional ability to quickly grasp high-level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions
- Exceptional object-oriented thinking, design and programming skills (Java 8 or 11)
- Expertise with the following technologies : Data Structures, Design Patterns ,Code Versioning Tools(Github/bitbucket/..), XML, JSON, Spring Batch Restful, Spring Cloud, Grafana(Knowledge/Experience), Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, DB/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Architecture design (Patterns) Agile, JIRA.
- Penchant toward self-motivation and continuous improvement; these words should describe you: dedicated, energetic, curious, conscientious, and flexible.
We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
- B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
- Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
- Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
- Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
- Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
- Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
- Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
- Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
- Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
- Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
- Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have
Responsibilities:
- Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
- Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
- Comply with coding standards and technical design.
- Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
- Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
- Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
- Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
- Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
- Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
- Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
- Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
- Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
- A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
- 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
- Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
- Great database modeling skills.
- Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
- Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
- Experience with open-source projects.
- Experience in designing interactive applications.




















