Unacademy - Backend Developer - Golang

4 weeks ago

Bengaluru, India Unacademy Full time

About Unacademy :

Unacademy is an EdTech platform that empowers millions of students across India to prepare for competitive exams and achieve their aspirations.

We are people dedicated to democratising education in India.

We collaborate with educators in an effort to build the world's largest knowledge repository for learners across the nation.

We traverse a landscape with a $10 B market opportunity and over 50 M test takers and 240 M students in K-12

A peek into our achievements so far :

- 75+ million students learning on the platform to achieve their academic goals across 50 exam categories.

- 6,50,000+ paid subscribers.

- $220+ Million ARR and growing at an unprecedented rate.

- 2 Billion+ Minutes of watch time each month.

- 1,70,000 Live Classes conducted every month with concurrent learners exceeding 75,000

- 10x growth in revenues in the last 1 year and valued at 3.44 Billion.

- Backed by top VCs such as General Atlantic, Mirae, Facebook, Sequoia, Softbank, Tiger Global, etc

Job Description :

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Backend Developer with strong proficiency in Golang to join our growing engineering team.

As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for developing high-performance services and APIs that power our platforms.

Responsibilities :


- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend systems using Golang.

- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

- Build RESTful APIs and microservices to support web and mobile applications.

- Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.

- Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and other team members to define and deliver features.

- Participate in code reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior developers.

- Debug and resolve production issues promptly.

Requirements :


- 4 to 7 years of experience in backend development.

- Strong programming skills in Golang.

- Solid understanding of REST APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.

- Good understanding of version control systems, especially Git.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.

Preferred (Good to Have) :


- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- Familiarity with Kubernetes.

- Exposure to message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ.

Why Explore a Career at Unacademy :

Unacademy is one of the world's most cutting-edge online education platform and we want you to be a part of our team as we build towards creating the largest repository of knowledge online.

This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in a positive and creative work environment that will allow you to learn on open source technologies and platforms.

Fast paced environment where actions taken by the teams lead to tangible impact on the ground and a step towards changing the education paradigm


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