Software Engineer - Backend

About Us
We are a global learning platform that empowers educators to motivate learners through technology. We are used in diverse learning environments, including K-12, higher education, and corporate settings. Quizizz has organically grown to 75M monthly active users in 100+ countries. The US is a significant market for us, where 80% of the schools trust us in their classrooms. We are a high-growth, profitable SaaS company backed by leading venture investors, including Tiger Global, GSV, Nexus Venture Partners, and others. 
We are a small, passionate, tech-first team working on challenging problems to improve learning. Our mission is to motivate every student in the world by empowering every teacher and we thrive on building delightful product experiences by moving fast, leveraging data, and interacting with a passionate user base.

What you'll do...

• You will architect, build, scale, backend system that powers our applications which are loved and used by millions of learners every day.
• You will work closely with a cross-functional team consisting of strategy, design, development, and program managers to determine how to design scalable backend systems and APIs to meet their needs.
• You possess a passion for improving techniques, processes, tracking, and continuously improving our engineering practices.

Who you are...

• You must have at least 1+ years of professional experience.
• You will be utilizing technologies like Redis and Websockets to create a high-reliability, low-latency API that will handle massive multiplayer sessions.
• You will be building a database layer using MongoDB to efficiently store/retrieve large amounts of data.
• You will be setting up suitable backup and redundancy measures for maintaining 100% uptime for all our mission-critical services.
• You will be logging all data, and setting up jobs to generate analytics reports that will drive all our decisions.