SuperKalam (YC W23)

Fullstack Engineer (React Native + Backend)

SuperKalam (YC W23)  •  ₹2200k - ₹3200k/yr  •  Bengaluru, IN (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Skills: Express, Node.js, React Native, TypeScript, PostgreSQL

We are here to make a phenomenal product for our users, which makes the bar for our tech team high. We are eager to talk to you if you have an amazing sense of quality in engineering deliverables and strong ownership. Application form: https://forms.gle/EVnJ9dPSjHg5WzqH7

About us?

We are the crazy ones — shaping education with a deep commitment to our students, building a generational company along the way, and having a blast doing it. We absolutely love people who communicate smoothly, take ownership naturally, and are eager to grow and move fast.

What you will work on?

You will be joining us in this 1-100 journey, building the best AI tutor platform out of India (likes of Duolingo). So there is tons of UX, personalisation, gamification, problem solving, automations, scaling, and new ideas to work upon that comes along.

Requirements:

  • Ideally 3-4yrs of experience in building Mobile apps + backend engineering (React Native and NodeJS)
  • Strong engineering fundamentals
  • Loves great architecture, uses best practices and can write scalable code.
  • Software engineering skills -
  • Redis, Queues, Caching
  • Bonus - Elastic search
  • Relational DBs - PostgreSQL / MySQL
  • Rate limiting
  • Basics of scaling and security
  • Mobile engineering skills -
  • High quality UI and basic animations
  • Push notifications
  • Have handled various mobile app challenges like - performance, optimized app builds, etc.
  • Bonus - writing bridges, widgets, own libraries, etc.
  • Worked with AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Uses AI in workflow
  • Bonus - Have worked in Python before
  • Preferred - Worked/Familiarity in modern AI tech stack (LLMs, RAGs, training, etc.)

PS: Can you write code which can adapt to requirements 6 months in future?

Responsibilities:

  • Building new features and various initiatives in backend and mobile app
  • Deployments, performance, push notifications, etc
  • Set up tooling and running experiments - crons, automation workflows, AI tooling, etc.
  • Product and design reviews
  • Pushing tech quotient of team - keep self updated with evolving technology and AI based tooling
  • Take decisions driven by speed to production + quality for today
  • We thrive on smooth communication, ownership and agility. It’s a must.

Who will thrive here:

  • Has worked in product based startup for 2+ years (including internship)
  • Enjoys solving complex engineering and product problems
  • Is engineering mindset - writing scripts or automation, or building quick dashboards (using Claude Code)
  • Hunger to learn and grow a startup as a core team
  • Ownership mindset, who is also a strong individual contributor
  • First principle thinking and communication.

Compensation:

Experience wise: 22 to 32LPA. Esops for the right candidate.

Interview Process

You resume will be short listed as per your prior experience and inclination to work with us. Introductory call/ in-person meet (20-30 min) - We will discuss your work in detail, mindset and depth of skillset.

F2F 1, ~2 days: Fullstack mobile assignment round

F2F 2, 1h 15m: Fundamentals of programming, batching, object oriented in JS/TS, etc.

F2F 3, 1h 15m: system design - LLD - From a vague problem statement, concretise the requirements, DB schema design, performance, choices of architecture, etc.

F2F 4, 1h 15m: system design - HLD - Given a problem statement, design and architecture to achieve this keeping in mind how system would transition over an 1 year, ensuring security, right choices of storage/DB, etc.

Final discussion round

SuperKalam (YC W23)

About SuperKalam (YC W23)

SuperKalam is an AI-led learning ecosystem that actively engages with a student as a Personal Super Mentor.

SuperKalam is like having a GPS for a study journey. It highlights the recommended route and the essential stops and even suggests that a student should dive deeper into more topics based on their learning progress.

We are a YCombinator W23 batch, based out of India & SF.

Industry
Education & Training
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Bangalore, IN
Year Founded
2023
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