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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Learning Platform

About the role:
AeDA is building an AI-supported learning and interview preparation platform. We are looking for a backend engineer who can design reliable APIs, data pipelines, and platform services for course content, progress tracking, and personalized recommendations.

Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain REST APIs for users, learning progress, course materials, and report generation
- Build Python or Go services that integrate PostgreSQL, cloud storage, and background jobs
- Improve observability, testing, deployment reliability, and incident response
- Collaborate with frontend, data, and research teams to turn product ideas into usable workflows

Requirements:
- 3+ years building backend systems in Python, Go, Node.js, or similar
- Strong PostgreSQL schema design, API design, debugging, and system design fundamentals
- Experience with GCP or AWS, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and production operations
- Clear communication and comfort explaining technical tradeoffs

Nice to have:
Experience with learning products, recommendation systems, LLM/AI integrations, or analytics dashboards.

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Summary:
Backend-oriented full-stack engineer with 3 years of experience building education and productivity tools. Comfortable owning APIs from schema design through deployment, and interested in platform work that combines learning data, content systems, and AI-assisted workflows.

Experience:
- Built REST APIs with Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, and Prisma for user accounts, uploads, and dashboard views
- Implemented Google Cloud Storage upload/download flows and signed file access for course materials
- Improved React/Next.js product pages by connecting frontend state to backend endpoints
- Debugged production issues around authentication, slow queries, and file metadata mismatches
- Set up Docker-based local development and fixed CI failures for a small engineering team

Projects:
- Course portal prototype with YouTube video lessons, PDF slide previews, and progress tracking
- Interview preparation report UI that summarizes skills, rounds, questions, and learning gaps

Skills:
Python, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, React, Next.js, GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions

Growth areas:
Needs more practice with distributed system design, observability tools, and telling concise incident-response stories.

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