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Software Engineer - Backend

Karnataka, India (On-site)

Software Engineer - Backend

6 Months ago • 1 Years + • Backend Development

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mongodb

redis

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websockets

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saas-business-models

Job Description

Backend engineer needed for a global learning platform, experience with Redis, WebSockets, MongoDB, and API development required.

Must have:

Redis experience
WebSockets knowledge
MongoDB expertise
API development

Good to have:

Scalable systems
Low-latency API
Database layer
Backup measures

Perks:

Commute covered
Health benefits

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About Us

We are a global learning platform that empowers educators to motivate learners through technology. We are used in diverse learning environments, including K-12, higher education, and corporate settings. Quizizz has organically grown to 75M monthly active users in 100+ countries. The US is a significant market for us, where 80% of the schools trust us in their classrooms. We are a high-growth, profitable SaaS company backed by leading venture investors, including Tiger Global, GSV, Nexus Venture Partners, and others.

We are a small, passionate, tech-first team working on challenging problems to improve learning. Our mission is to motivate every student in the world by empowering every teacher and we thrive on building delightful product experiences by moving fast, leveraging data, and interacting with a passionate user base.

What you'll do...

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.

Who you are...

You must have at least 1+ years of professional experience.
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.

Working at Quizizz

The pandemic has changed work in many ways, especially by enabling remote work. Many companies have chosen to be remote first. At Quizizz, we work best in the office brainstorming using whiteboards, having conversations over coffee/walks, or overhearing a hallway conversation. Learning happens through osmosis. We understand that driving/ubering takes work in Bangalore. We’ll take care of the commute for you.

Beyond taking care of commute, we will cover health care benefits for you, your family, and your parents. We invest in our employee’s health and wellness. Through books and courses, we invest in their learning and development. Oh, and finally, we have healthy lunches, dinners, and a stocked pantry to snack on all day.

Quizizz is an equal opportunity employer and we believe diversity is key to our success.

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About The Company

Quizizz

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Quizizz is a teaching platform that lets you deliver instruction that's relevant for every student with a boost from AI. With Quizizz, educators can plan engaging yet rigorous quizzes, lessons, or activities for any grade level or subject in minutes.

With over 50 million users across 150 countries, our global platform has been empowering educators to motivate and engage learners around the globe since its inception. We started by building features to gamify learning and make different assessments engaging and fun.

Today, educators can plan their content in seconds, not weekends, with Quizizz AI and our vast library of over 400 million questions while having the flexibility to accommodate every student's needs with read-aloud, audio responses, translation, and leveled text. Keeping our core of motivating every learner, we offer multiple gamified-for-growth elements such as Power-ups, Team Mode, Leadership Boards, etc.

Our platform is secure, with multiple platform integrations, SSO, and relevant offerings available for schools and districts.

We make it possible. Teachers make it personal.

Join our mission at www.quizizz.com and use your ideas to shape the future of learning.