Senior Software Engineer- Data Sciences

About the role

Unacademy is looking for passionate software engineers to help change the world – join us on our mission to provide a world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

As a Sr engineer at Unacademy, you'll help learners build mastery regardless of where they are, and regardless of whether they are accessing Unacademy on the browser, on Android, or on iOS. You'll help build cutting-edge infrastructure to enable students of all backgrounds to succeed on high-stakes assessments like the UPSC and IIT. Ultimately, you'll be part of helping millions of learners to unlock their full potential. We are looking for smart, dynamic individuals with outstanding programming skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative software.

What You'll Do

• Take on world-changing challenges guided by our Engineering Principles – some of which have never been solved before.
• Model problems, then design, write, test and release code to solve them!
• Collaborate with your peers via code reviews to level up yourself and others, to improve your ability to provide effective feedback, and to achieve higher quality code.
• Build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners.
• Work on code that is used by millions of monthly active learners.

What You Need

• 3-4 years of professional full-time experience building and maintaining complex software on a cross-functional team. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
• Python,Java, Go lang
• Unit testing
• Strong algorithmic, discrete math, data structures, computational complexity, computer security and cryptography skills
• Strong database skills
• You're an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
• You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production env and finally monitoring.