Software Engineer - II (Platform)

We are building a brand new team in Hyderabad, India but we're based in NYC. (India based candidates only) 

The India team is focused on building products and offerings for India, adapting features to ensure that learners in India have the best possible experience throughout. The team would be responsible for building and owning foundational global services and applications on them to serve the Indian market, understanding users and product usage, running experiments and shipping continuous improvements.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Leverage frontend and backend technologies to deliver new products and features to learners.
• Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web applications.
• Collaborate closely with Curriculum, Data Science, DevOps and Product teams to build engaging experiences for our learners.
• Be a champion for developing and adhering to engineering standards within the team. We want to build high-quality software that’s easy to understand, easy to change, and works the way it’s supposed to.
• Put automated testing, tracking, and monitoring in place to ensure our website and integrations are always working as expected.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• A minimum of 4 years of experience developing frontend applications and backend distributed systems
• Experience developing and maintaining APIs; comfortable with API design patterns (REST, RPC, GraphQL)
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We primarily use PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails
• Building and optimizing for performance and scalability

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Excited about the opportunities and challenges of working on projects touching all areas of our codebase and associated microservices
• Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails
• You love teaching people to code as a mentor, volunteer, writer, or teacher

Check out our Engineering Values matrix on our Github here.