Senior Engineering Manager

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 revolutionize how the world learns. As a Backend Engineer, 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.

The ideal candidate possesses a passion for writing and an innovative ability to create successful marketing campaigns and aid in creating company growth. You will be responsible for generating exciting and compelling stories on both digital and print sources of media.

Responsibilities

• Handle social media under social media manager's supervision.

• Work on Digital marketing strategy planning.

• Writing blogs, articles and plagiarism free content.

• Competitor analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or relevant work experience
• Proficiency in major digital and print platforms

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who is proficient in NodeJS, React, and Go to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using modern technologies.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement complex web applications using NodeJS, React, and Go

Collaborate with the development team to ensure the project is delivered on time and to the highest standards

Identify and resolve technical issues and bugs

Develop and maintain server-side and client-side code

Ensure web applications are scalable, efficient, and secure

Write and maintain unit and integration tests

Work with other teams to integrate third-party systems and APIs

Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in web development

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members

Take ownership of the project and ensure its success

Requirements:

Strong experience in web application development using NodeJS, React, and Go

Familiarity with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL

Understanding of RESTful APIs and Microservices Architecture

Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, and Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies

Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Strong attention to detail

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

If you are a motivated, enthusiastic, and talented Full Stack Developer with a passion for creating high-quality web applications, we encourage you to apply.

Intro:
Empala is an exciting new fintech launching in Singapore. Empala aims to help workers in the SEA region get access to their pay & helping them save for unexpected expenses. 

Job Description:

As fullstack developer at Empala you will be building and shaping our product. Our current offerings are centered around a React Native app (iOS & Android) with a serverless backend.

Empala is a flat and young organization, meaning every hand has a lasting impact on our product and our culture. You will report directly to the CTO and will in general be working closely with the founders. The job is of course mostly focused on building and maintaining our products, but in a small team you will have to wear a lot of hats, you could get involved in sales, marketing or anything in between, ideally you will see this as a positive thing and a chance to learn more about our users/customers/new areas of work. 

Benefits: 

At Empala we offer a competitive package that will be a mix of salary and employee stock options. We pay ourselves on demand meaning you can get paid for the work you have done when you wish it, be it daily, weekly, monthly or a combination of above. 

Requirements: 

The following requirements are a guideline, if you are missing some points but you are confident that you can master them in a reasonable amount of time there might still be a place for you at Empala. 

Preferred

• React Native 
• Backend tools and frameworks (express or any other, non JS is OK as well) 
• Cloud providers, AWS preferred 
• Git

Other requirements 

• Fluent in english 
• Proactive approach to problem solving 
• A hunger to get stuff done 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with Redux, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS Amplify
• Experience with SCRUM and/or TDD