We are a London-based startup with the ambition to change education with ML-powered tutoring. Our flagship product is a mobile application for teaching English to intermediate and advanced learners.
Be one of the first applicants, read the complete overview of the role below, then send your application for consideration.
We’re on the verge of solving one of the biggest challenges in education – making high-quality, personalised learning accessible to everyone. What was once technologically impossible is now within our grasp.
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to lead this direction at Glite.
What you’ll do:
* Design and implement a new high-scale system for millions of users.
* Build convenient CI/CD processes and testing pipelines to support quick iterative development and system stability.
* Research and make decisions about the technological stack and system design, considering all trade-offs.
* Work on ML model development with our team to build robust data pipelines and deploy ML models.
* Analyse large corpora of data and build real-time recommendation systems.
* Scale backend and web frontend development teams.
* Deliver numerous new, useful, and interesting features.
* Work with large amounts of data in different modalities: texts, videos, images, audio.
* Lead the full-stack development of a high-scale system designed for millions of users.
* Work in a very cross-functional team, side by side with mobile developers, product managers, ML engineers, and designers.
Skills needed:
* Build high-load applications from scratch.
* Deep knowledge of AWS.
* Problem-solving.
* Requirements gathering.
* Architecture planning (trade-offs management).
* Estimation skills (time, users, traffic, money, algorithmic complexity, cache, etc.).
* Clean code practices.
* Architecture scalability and simplicity.
* Research skills (new APIs, libraries, services, and their estimations).
* CI/CD automation pipelines.
* Proficiency with Terraform and Docker.
* SOLID, KISS principles, decomposition principles, and resolving monolith vs. microservices trade-offs.
* Experience in code review.
* Experience with unit, E2E, and UI testing frameworks.
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Best practices in building scalable mobile APIs (REST, HTTPS, etc.).
* Good principles of security management (secrets, protocols, etc.).
* Experience with some Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.).
* Experience managing a team of developers.
* CAP.
Skills that are nice to have:
* Speak or learn to speak more than one language
* Experience with real-time databases.
* Experience with in-memory databases.
* Experience with frontend frameworks.
* Experience in developing educational products.
* Knowledge-sharing experience (tech talks, articles, YouTube videos, etc.).
* Experience (even non-production) with different types of programming languages: interpreted, compiled, with garbage collection, manual memory management, reference counting memory management, etc.
Current tech stack:
* Python
* AWS
* MongoDB
* Firebase
* Docker
* Terraform
* React
* PostgreSQL
What we can offer:
* A real-deal startup adventure: you'll be hopping on a major project while it's still in the works!
* A cool "Do Your Thing" vibe.
* A crew all about people and products.
* Always room to grow.
* Flexible schedule.
* Work in the London office.
* Freedom to suggest, implement, and test ideas.
* Competitive salary & perks.
* We offer substantial relocation assistance to support your move.
Hiring process:
As a startup, it is crucial for us to hire highly skilled professionals. Our interview process consists of 3-4 interviews.
The interviews cover the following topics:
* Problem Solving
* Architecture Design and Product Design
* Domain/Platform Knowledge
After all interviews, we would like to invite you to work with us in our London office for 1-2 paid test days. If everything goes well, we will make an offer to the successful candidate.