Lead Engineer - Backend

  • Noida
  • Classplus

About us:


Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing videolearning platform.


Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a ‘Series-D’ funding .


Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!


What will you do?


If the phrase ‘With Great Power comes Great Responsibility’ stands true anywhere, it’s here!


As one of the Engineering leaders at Classplus, you’ll contribute to the high-level architecture of several systems. You’ll be responsible for establishing the technology vision and best engineering practices in your team. Basically, determine the overall success of the product.


Are you a passionate, entrepreneurial, hands-on Engineering Leader? Then you’ll be a great fit to join the Classplus Engineering team (based out of Noida).


We’ll need you to:


Build platforms and distributed systemsto solve multiplebusiness use cases👨🏻💻


Provide growth in terms of monthly transactions, new customer- acquisitions, customer retention, etc.


Understand the customer behavior and build smart- products using cutting-edge technologies to solve these problemsat scale.


Work closely with the Product Management, Business, Development, Design,and Delight team 🤝🏻


Enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapidpace for educators and content creators


Lead a team of software engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability 📈


Manage business goals,contribute to productstrategy and help develop teamsacross various pods


Create clear career paths for team membersand help them grow


Architect & design technically robust,flexible, and scalablesolution 💻


Set up best practicesfor development and champion their adoption and at the same time


You should apply, if you


Are seasoned professional ✊🏻 :
Have 5-8 years of experience in developing products with 1+ years in leading a team of 2-5 members. Additionally, possess technical hands-on, prior experience with a scalable architecture managing team of 2-5.

Should also have prior experience working with ProductManagers and UX Designers.


Are a Born Leader :
Can mentor engineers and architects in the team and have good team management skills with the ability to multitask, strong problem solvingand analytical skills


Know your tech 👩🏻💻 :
Have experience with web technologies, NodeJS/Java/Golang, MySQL, NoSql, Cache (Redis, ElasticCache), Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud infra, Elasticsearch, AWS or GCP etc.


Are a problem solver:
Should be able to think out of the box and demonstrate how to solve a deeply complex and hard technical challenge


Can communicate like a pro 🗣️ :
Can effectively communicate a vision upward (Engineering Leadership), inward (peers and engineering team), and outward (product& business teams).


Having experience with high-performance websitescatering to millions of daily trafficis a plus with an ability to bring in software engineering life cycle best practices.


Being a Part of the Clan!


At Classplus , you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget aboutbeing bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!


It doesn’t matterhow long your journey has been or your positionin the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams);
you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say,we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers!✊🏼❤️


Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.