Software Development Intern

Your role: We are looking for a product builder who will research, iterate, scale & lead our new products & features to fuel our product-led strategy to help millions learn new skills. This is a leadership role & you will be working directly with the founder & product teams and will focus on innovating & iterating to drive strong user experience, feature adoption & growth loops.

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 recognized 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.

Responsibilities:

• Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth.
• Work collaboratively with/manage the UX/UI and engineering team.
• Define a roadmap for the design & development team.
• Explore and integrate monetisation strategies and evolve business models
• Execute on that roadmap to ensure resiliency and reliability of the product.
• Work closely with engineering to solve problems and build elegant solutions.
• Work closely with design and content team to ensure you’re enriching the end-customer experience.
• Learn, understand and predict user interactions.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of dedicated product management experience.
• Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Growth and Business. Marketing understanding is a definite plus
• Successful track record in planning, developing and executing a strategy for a product while collaborating cross-functionally.
• Solid engineering fundamentals & strong exposure to technology.
• You’re entrepreneurial and are comfortable working in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Analytical and data-driven, you love digging into the data to understand what’s happening and define & measure success on every project.
• You’re passionate about your customers and always bring questions back to what will serve them best.
• Experience driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.

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.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.
• Desired Skills and Experience
• Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building a website based on the given requirements and ensure it’s successfully deployed
• Responsible for designing, planning, and testing new web pages and site features
• A propensity for brainstorming and coming up with solutions to open-ended problems
• Work closely with other teams, and project managers, to understand all stakeholders’ requirements and ensure that all specifications and requirements are met in final development
• Troubleshoot and solve problems related to website functionality
• Takes ownership of initiatives and drives them to completion.
• Desire to learn and dive deep into new technologies on the job, especially around modern data storage and streaming open source systems
• Responsible for creating, optimizing, and managing REST APIs
• Create website content and enhance website usability and visibility
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and testing for mobile responsiveness
• Ability to integrate payment processing and search functionality software solutions
• Stay up-to-date with technological advancements and the latest coding practices
• Collaborate with the team of designers, content managers, and developers to determine site goals, functionality, and layout
• Monitor website traffic and overall system’s health with Google analytics to ensure high GTmetrix score
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop server-side logic and APIs that integrate with front-end applications.
• Architect and design complex database structures and data models.
• Develop and implement backend systems to support scalable and high-performance web applications.
• Create automated tests to ensure system stability and performance.
• Ensure security and data privacy measures are maintained throughout the development process.
• Maintain an up-to-date changelog for all new, updated, and fixed changes.
• Ability to document and manage all the software design, requirements, reusable & transferable code, and other technical aspects of the project.
• Create and convert storyboards and wireframes into high-quality full-stack code
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code
• Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implement security and data protection
• Ensure code that is platform and device-agnostic

EDUCATION & SKILLS REQUIREMENT

• B.Tech. / BE / MS degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
• Expertise in MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js)
• Should have prior working experience of at least 3 years as web developer or full stack developer
• Should have done projects in e-commerce or have preferably worked with companies operating in e-commerce
• Should have expert-level knowledge in implementing frontend technologies
• Should have worked in creating backend and have deep understanding of frameworks
• Experience in the complete product development life cycle
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, PHP, XML
• Proficiency in databases, including analytical (e.g., mySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Hive, Elastic etc.)
• Knowledge of architecting or implementing search APIs
• Great understanding of data modeling and RESTful APIs
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Strong analytical, consultative, and communication skills
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft office tools : excel, word, powerpoint etc.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design (Web, Mobile & App)
• Should be a self starter and have ability to work without being supervised
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience building high throughput/low latency systems.
• Knowledge of big data systems such as Cassandra, Elastic, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Should be willing to be a part of a small team and working in fast-paced environment
• Should be highly passionate about building products that create a significant impact.
• Should have experience in user experience design, website optimization techniques and different PIM tools

*Performs analysis of functional and business requirements

*Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge to maintain data engineering functions performs solution design.

*Applies the company, open source, and 3rd party technologies to highly complex infrastructure and software solutions.

*Introduce new product features and enhance the platform

*Ability to translate business reporting requirements into a production report.

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform

Detailed Job Description / Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The role requires deep expertise in delivering modern web application solutions on the Open Source Tech platform, as well as ability to communicate how these solutions drive business value. Detailed responsibilities include -

• Lead Engineering team and ensure customer requirements and needs across the current and future targeted segments are met.
• Work with Product Owner / US counter parts / SME’s to understand the requirements and prioritize development efforts.
• Work in capacity of Scrum Master role and manage development through Agile - Scrum framework. Activities include Sprint planning, Preside Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective, Publish reports, etc.
• Responsible for creating User stories, Epics in Project management tool based on the requirements received from various stakeholders including clients.
• Manage all aspects of engineering operations including Product Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Architect the applications / providing recommendations to choose the right technologies for the products to be built.
• Manage Operational efforts for the contracted clients and ensure the SLA’s with required quality are met.
• Manage Product support team and ensure the SLA’s for response and resolutions are provided to client that meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.
• Build / Guide Developers in building Full-Stack Web applications at Internet scale.
• Code Review and provide feedback to ensure timely delivery with required quality.
• Programming in MEAN stack or similar open source technologies and framework
• Data Modelling using NoSQL and Relational Database management Systems
• UI / UX Design and Implementation
• Web Development with BootStrap, Angular Material, and other libraries
• Develop Data / File parsing programs using Python or other programming languages
• Create methods and algorithms for data analysis and optimization
• Develop curriculum for talent development, Knowledge Sharing, etc.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all stakeholders involved.
• Willing, capable and excited to roll up the sleeves to code when needed.
• Having exceptional expertise in one of the following areas –
  • Backend / Front end Web Application Framework
  • Serverless Architecture
  • Micro Services Platforms
  • AWS Services