Website:
utkrusht.ai
Job details:
Utkrusht is helping hire for a Google backed startup in the ed-tech space. Backed by the likes of Reid Hoffman and Naval Ravikant, the startup is on a mission to reimagine how billions will learn and grow.
Title: Senior Backend Developer (Python)
Pay: 15 - 30 LPA
Location: Remote (Mumbai preferred)
First Step: is a task based assessment - 30 mins - use of AI allowed - click Apply to get it.
Roles and Responsibilities
Your roles and responsibilities will include:
- Ship Micro-services: Build FastAPI services that handle ≈ 800 req/s today and will triple
within a year (sub-200 ms p95).
- Power Real-Time Learning: Drive the quiz-scoring & AI-tutor engines that crunch millions of
events daily.
- Design for Scale & Safety: Model data (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, SQS) and craft modular,
secure back-end components from scratch
- Deploy Globally: Roll out Dockerised services behind NGINX on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) and GCP
(GKE) via Kubernetes.
- Automate Releases: GitLab CI/CD + blue-green / canary = multiple safe prod deploys each
week.
- Own Reliability: Instrument with Prometheus / Grafana, chase 99.9 % uptime, trim infra
spend.
- Expose Gen-AI at Scale: Publish LLM inference & vector-search endpoints in partnership
with the AI team.
- Ship Fast, Learn Fast: Work with founders, PMs, and designers in weekly ship rooms; take a
feature from Figma to prod in < 2 weeks.
What makes you a great fit?
Must-Haves:
• 3+ yrs Python back-end experience (FastAPI)
• Strong with Docker & container orchestration
• Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or GCP (GKE / Compute) in production
• SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB) + You’ve built systems from scratch & have solid system-
design fundamentals
Nice-to-Haves
• k8s at scale, Terraform,
• Experience with AI/ML inference services (LLMs, vector DBs)
• Go / Rust for high-perf services
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Click on Apply to know more.