Team Lead - Backend

ABOUT THE ROLE

Toppr is looking for a smart, collaborative, and hard-working Lead Backend Engineer. As a lead backend engineer, you’ll come in and lay the groundwork for how engineering is practised at Toppr. You’ll assess the technical feasibility of newly-created product ideas and propose accurate solutions throughout the design and development phase. You’ll evaluate different systems for use in production and drive adoption of key technological changes. You’ll lead a team of motivated and experienced engineers and enable them to provide a seamless learning experience to our customers. So, if you are an accomplished, hands-on engineering leader, then we’d like to talk to you!

HOW YOU’LL RAMP

In First Week...

• Understand Toppr’s journey, its values and mission.
• Spend time with the Technology, Product, HR, and Sales teams to get up-to-speed on Toppr’s offering, its competition, and future outlook.

By Day 30…

• Work with web, mobile, and embedded software engineers to design and build clean, usable APIs to power Toppr services.
• Build production-ready backend services to support new and existing product initiatives.

By Day 90…

• Help define and build the next generation of the Toppr product/platform.
• Work on scaling various pieces of infrastructure to support the changing product roadmap.
• Act as a mentor to your team members and nurture them to grow to the next level.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Leadership: Ability to move and inspire a large team in a unified direction towards a common vision.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
• Humility: An approachable individual who is able to form strong and long-lasting relationships.
• Motivation: Demonstrate a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude. Willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done.
• Data-driven: Keen interest in evaluating product/market situations, analyzing raw data, and transforming it into actionable strategies.

Requirements

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years of professional production development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).
• Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Leadership: Ability to move and inspire a large team in a unified direction towards a common vision.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
• Humility: An approachable individual who is able to form strong and long-lasting relationships.
• Motivation: Demonstrate a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude. Willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done.
• Data-driven: Keen interest in evaluating product/market situations, analyzing raw data, and transforming it into actionable strategies.

Benefits

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN TOPPR

• As the business grows, you grow: We want Toppr to be built from within. We look at you as a business leader with the potential to make Toppr a $10B company.
• Learn from the best: Learn from leaders who have built Toppr from ground up. Work with other engineers who handle different layers of the infrastructure.
• Work in a data-driven team: Understand the importance of validating assumptions about user behaviour. Use various types of testing to ensure we're right. Utilize data collection, enrichment, analytics, and visualizations to improve our systems.

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