Job Description

About Learngram:

Learngram is a Singapore-based EdTech startup founded by IIT Alums and we are building an innovative online classroom platform designed from scratch that offers all the tools to make teaching and learning seamless, effective and fun. Our tech team is based out of Bengaluru and we are building a high-quality team of result-focused & innovative problem solvers.

Founders:

Shirish Chandrakar – CEO

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirishc/

Raman Kishore – Co-Founder/CTO

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kramankishore/

Job Summary:

At Learngram, we are building an online teaching & learning platform with a large breadth to address live, non-live and collaborative parts of classroom interactions. We follow an extremely user focused product development approach to address the needs of teachers & students and bring them to a smooth classroom experience online, and in the process, elevate their effectiveness to a new level.

Learngram is a tech company in every sense with the tech product being the heart of the company with zero to minimal ops. Naturally, we are building a seemingly complex tech product with various moving parts having to seamlessly interact with each other at scale, and deliver the best experience to the users.

The Backend team at Learngram does the heavy lifting of architecting & continuously improving multiple backend services, their interactions, the database, live communication, file sharing, handling videos, lecture recordings, deployments, load testing, scaling & autoscaling, cost optimisation, long term strategies to re-architect the services, notifications, logging, caching and much more. The team ensures that the utility of a complex platform with all the intricacies is kept functional and intact at all times, with a small debug and response time in case of any issue & ensure a smooth and engaging experience for the users.

The Backend Developer role at Learngram requires you to be strong at backend architecture with a long term vision, excellent problem solving ability, a mindset to chase efficiency, writing extremely performant Apis & DB queries, logging & monitoring the whole system, very good at designing & implementing caching strategies for the services, experienced in handling production code bases, writing very maintainable & well architected code, comfortable using cloud servers and handling all releases and deployments, load testing, scaling & autoscaling applications with various strategies as they seem fit, using message queues to solve multiple problems and being comfortable with the interactions among different backend services.

This role at Learngram requires you to follow and innovate the product development process to ensure effective communication with various teams and efficient work environment. We also require you to be involved in creating healthy relationships within the team built on ownership, support & effective communication to keep the people-first culture of the company alive and enjoy creating with the team. A passion to be an early team member of a startup and build products ground up is crucial to keep the intensity and ownership culture within the team.

Responsibilities & Skills:

• Backend architecture
• Backend development (Node/Python + Express/Flask)
• Websockets and real time communication
• Handling file storage and rendering at scale
• DB design and optimised querying
• Building well architected and low latency Apis
• Deployment on Cloud (AWS)
• Message Queuing (Kafka)
• Caching (Redis)
• Load testing, Scaling & Autoscaling
• Notifications & Analytics
• Excellent problem solving ability
• Effective communication across dev, QA, design & product teams
• WebRTC knowledge is a plus

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 1+ years of experience in Backend Development
• Good verbal/written communication skills
• Strong Interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team and the familiarity of working with dev, QA, design and product teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Experienced in working on microservices architecture based code bases
• Experienced in handling production code & releases
• Experienced in load testing, scaling & autoscaling initiatives
• Ability to architect and build full-fledged complex features from scratch
• Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, pro-active and strong sense of ownership

Website Link:
https://linkclassroom.com/