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About the Role

Join a global EdTech company as a Backend Engineer II, building AI-enabled products for students, teachers, and partners to improve learning outcomes. This high-ownership role involves building secure, reliable, and scalable services, integrations, data flows, and cloud foundations. You will investigate problems, make technical decisions, and take responsibility for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, webhooks, and integration services.
• Develop secure, scalable foundations for multi-tenant education products.
• Build and improve integrations with learning platforms, third-party services, AI providers, and internal systems.
• Design reliable data flows for assessment, feedback, learner activity, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain authentication, authorization, permissions, and audit capabilities.
• Work with PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and modern cloud application infrastructure.
• Build and deploy containerized services in cloud environments.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability across backend systems.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes.
• Work closely with Product and AI Engineers to translate product needs into scalable technical systems.
• Engage with education partners to understand workflows and improve integrations.
• Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining high standards for testing, security, and code quality.
• Write clean, tested, and maintainable code.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience owning backend services, APIs, integrations, webhooks, or cloud-based systems beyond narrowly scoped feature delivery.
• Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or similar modern backend technologies.
• Experience with frameworks such as NestJS, FastAPI, Express, or similar.
• Solid understanding of APIs, authentication, validation, permissions, databases, and backend architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and modern cloud platforms.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs, SaaS platforms, or AI services.
• Experience with Docker or similar containerization tools.
• A self-directed mindset and the ability to investigate unclear technical problems, make sound decisions, and move work towards practical solutions.
• Strong ownership, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Clear written and spoken English.

Skills

• TypeScript/Node.js
• Python
• NestJS
• FastAPI
• Express
• APIs
• Authentication
• Validation
• Permissions
• Databases
• Backend Architecture
• PostgreSQL
• Cloud Platforms
• Third-party API Integration
• SaaS Platform Integration
• AI Service Integration
• Docker
• Containerization
• Debugging
• Problem-solving

Location

• Europe

Work Type

• Fully remote

Experience Level

• Mid-level
• 3+ years

Education Level

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Nice to have)

About the Company

• A global EdTech company building a suite of AI-enabled products for students, teachers, and education partners to support better learning outcomes at scale.