Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a passionate and motivated product engineer who partners with us to build intuitive, scalable, and delightful user experiences for teachers, students, and parents. As a product Engineer, you will contribute to designing, developing, and deploying high-quality products. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and educators, and gain exposure to real-world usage in schools. This role offers hands-on ownership, continuous technical growth and product understanding in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

What you'll achieve in your first 3 months:

• Understand the codebase, backend architecture, and core product workflows.
• Build strong fundamentals in PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and basic query writing.
• Start contributing to feature development, production fixes, and basic query optimisation.

What you'll achieve in your first 6 months:

• Independently deliver major backend features by writing clean, modular, and optimised code.
• Become comfortable with query optimisation and writing scripts for analytics and database migrations.
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, QA, and Product teams.

What you'll achieve in your first 12 months:

• Own backend modules end-to-end, coordinating closely with Product and Support teams through scoping, design reviews, development, release, and post-release support.
• Get the opportunity to work on backend infrastructure projects or contribute to other backend services.
• Contribute to onboarding, technical knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of engineering processes.

Requirements:

• Frameworks & Technologies - Node.js, Express & GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
• Tools & Platforms - Git, Knex, GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with scripting and data analysis tasks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn.
• Ability to write maintainable, readable, and scalable code.

Good to have:

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem (Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, API Gateway, etc. )
• Experience with background jobs, queues, and workers.
• Exposure to additional data stores such as Redis, ClickHouse, or Elasticsearch.
• Basic understanding of React and Apollo Client.
• Product mindset with empathy for end users and strong collaboration skills.
• Past working experience in SaaS or product-based companies.
• Education: B. E/B. Tech degree.
• Experience: 2 to 5 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred).
• Soft skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills.