Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant APIs
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to build features and improvements to the Plum product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in shipping backend applications in NodeJs, with knowledge of Express.
- Experience with NextJS and Typescript is a plus. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable API infrastructure.
- Shows the drive for owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution. Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational Skills.
- Having experience maintaining a production grade open source project is a plus.

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Overview
At Quizizz, we are building engaging learning experiences for teachers and students. Our mission is to motivate every learner and help them achieve their true potential. We are among one of the fastest-growing Edtech platforms globally and are currently used by 80% of the US schools every month, serving over 70M monthly actives around the world. Our goal is to reach every classroom around the world.
Quizizz has a passionate user base—We have organically reached this scale. Our NPS is 82 and our users love and deeply care about the platform. Check out our https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=quizizz&src=typd" target="_blank">Twitter page to see all the love shared by our users.
We are a venture-backed and profitable company creating a meaningful impact in K-12 education. We are a small, passionate, global team working on challenging problems to improve education. Look forward to using the latest technologies, fast development, and interacting with users to build delightful product experiences.
What the future holds
- You will architect, build, scale, backend system that powers our applications which are loved and used by millions of learners every day.
- You will work closely with a cross-functional team consisting of strategy, design, development, and program managers to determine how to design scalable backend systems and APIs to meet their needs.
- You possess a passion for improving techniques, processes, tracking, and continuously improving our engineering practices.
Requirements
- You will be utilizing technologies like Redis and Websockets to create a high-reliability, low-latency API that will handle massive multiplayer sessions.
- You will be building a database layer using MongoDB to efficiently store/retrieve large amounts of data.
- You will be setting up suitable backup and redundancy measures for maintaining 100% uptime for all our mission-critical services.
- You will be logging all data, and setting up jobs to generate analytics reports that will drive all our decisions.
Benefits
At Quizizz, we have built a world-class team of talented individuals. While we all care deeply about our work, we also ensure that we maintain a healthy work-life balance. Our policies are designed to ensure the well-being and comfort of our employees. Some of the benefits we offer include:
- Healthy work-life balance. Put in your 8 hours, and enjoy the rest of your day.
- Flexible leave policy. Take time off when you need it.
- Comprehensive health coverage of Rs. 6 lakhs, covering the employee and their parents, spouse and children. Pre-existing conditions are covered from day 1, and also benefits like free doctor consultations and more.
- Relocation support including travel and accommodation, and we'll also pay for a broker to find your home in Bangalore!
- Rs. 20,000 annual health and wellness allowance.
- Professional development support. We will reimburse you for relevant courses and books that you need to become a better professional.
- Delicious Meals including breakfast and lunch served at office, and a fully-stocked pantry for all your snacking needs.
Back End Developer
Qualification : Engineering /Master degree in Computer Science/Electronics/Electrical/Information
Technology Experience : 3- 6 years Skill Sets :
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The server part of client-server programming
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Strong database schema skills, querying, joins, triggers, stored procedures
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Programming languages and frameworks: Javascript and NodeJS languages: PHP, Node,
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Relational databases such as MySql, SQL Server, Postgres, NoSQL database MongoDB
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REST-compliant APIs
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Big Data processing
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Experience in Agile SCRUM method of development
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Familiar with GIT and Devops tools and technologies
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Spring Boot, JavaScript, MongoDB, Maria DB, Microservice , Devops, Rest API, Postman, AWS, Nginx, Redis, Docker
We are looking for software development engineers to design and develop the backend systems for our consumer and partner-facing applications. You will work on massively scalable distributed systems and solve complex engineering problems
Reporting structure - Engineering Manager-Java
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, algorithm design,
- Proficiency with Java, Rabbit MQ, Kafka.
- Proficiency in Mongo DB, Cassandra, Redis.
- 3+ years of experience contributing to architecture and design in a product setup Information Technology
- Understand customer needs by collaborating with Product Managers and Business stakeholders
- Development, delivery and support of large-scale, distributed software applications and tools
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality and maintainability for all deliverables
- Work in an agile, start-up-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
- Take initiatives and come up with new ideas to invent solutions for customer
Job description
Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.
Role & Responsibility
- Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
- A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
- Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
- Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
- Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
- Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
- Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
- 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs.
- Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
- Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
- Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
- Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to propose and defend solutions.
- Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.












