Software Engineer, Backend

Toddle is an AI-powered teaching and learning platform for K-12 schools. Built by educators, for educators, it is used by over 200,000 educators across 2,500+ schools in 100+ countries.

Teachers today work 50+ hours a week. Too much of that time is spent navigating fragmented systems and administrative overhead. Our BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to save teachers 10+ hours every week while helping elevate their practices, so that time can go back to what matters most - teaching, learning, and meaningful time with students.

Our approach is three-pronged.

First, Toddle brings the entire teaching and learning lifecycle into one place. Teachers plan and map curriculum, create assessments and gradebooks, maintain student portfolios, communicate with families, and generate progress reports and transcripts - all from a single, coherent system. Toddle also supports adjacent workflows where teachers are closely involved, including attendance, timetables, calendars, accreditation, behaviour management, analytics, and insights.

Second, every layer of the platform is deeply AI-powered. Educators work with a thoughtful AI partner to plan curriculum, create lessons and assessments, assist with grading, write progress report comments, and derive insights from data. Toddle also offers student-facing AI Tutors, enabling highly personalized and immersive learning experiences.

Third, Toddle integrates seamlessly with the broader school technology ecosystem. The platform supports 50+ integrations across SIS platforms, content providers, data & integration platforms, and workspaces such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

You can watch our founder and CEO’s overview of Toddle here

Headquartered in India with a multicultural team across 20+ countries, Toddle is built by former educators and school practitioners who understand the realities of classrooms firsthand. We care deeply about craft, clarity, and reducing unnecessary complexity for teachers. People who thrive at Toddle enjoy building thoughtful systems, care about real-world impact, and are motivated by long-term change in K-12 education.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

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 product. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, 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 optimization

What you’ll achieve in your first 6 months

• Independently deliver major backend features by writing clean, modular, and optimized code
• Become comfortable with query optimization, 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

Must have Skills:

• 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 or ClickHouse orElastic Search
• 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

Is this someone that looks like you?

• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree
• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)
• Soft skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills
• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire - Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility

Excited about the role?

Here are some more benefits:

1) Flexibility at work

• Work from anywhere - home, co-working space, cafe or even the hills
• Block “no-meeting hours” to enable uninterrupted focused work

2) Exposure to diverse learning opportunities

Work across different projects & teams to develop skills outside of your core expertise

3) Industry best leave policy

We trust you fully on your commitment to our mission and your judgement on planning your time and taking leaves:

• No cap on the number of sick or casual leaves
• Special paid leaves for childbirth, wedding etc.
• Menstrual leave

4) No bell curve performance evaluations

We put in a lot of work to hire the best, and therefore we don’t expect anyone to deliver less than the best!

5) And yes, a super fun and diverse group of folks to collaborate and grow with

Still with us? Here’s the process:

1) Shortlisting:

• Complete the form on this page.
• We’ll check out your application and assess it for a fit.
• If shortlisted, you’ll hear from us within 2-3 days.

2) Interview Process: Typically, we do 2-3 rounds of interviews, a written assignment, and deep reference checks.

3) We value your time and aim to communicate proactively at all stages of your application. You can always reach out with any questions!