Backend Engineer

About the Company

Level is a learning technology company dedicated to helping students build real academic and life skills with confidence and joy. We combine proven curriculum principles with world class interactive design to make meaningful practice something students want to come back to.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop online platform solutions powering Level products and features including user identity, ecosystem safety, and data privacy
• Build and operate highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable components
• Drive service quality through performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with product, design, educators, and engineering teams to translate the vision into technical solutions
• Take ownership of outcomes from initial design through production operations
• Champion and implement best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence

Requirements

• 5+ years building and operating highly-available online services at scale (100k+ TPS)
• Proficiency with Kotlin, Spring Boot, gRPC, and Kubernetes
• Strong solution architecture and API design skills
• Solid experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, ArgoCD)
• Solid understanding of relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) databases
• Excellence in code reviews, technical communication, and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in edtech or compliance-heavy industries (COPPA, FERPA)
• Background in high-scale B2C applications such as gaming, streaming, or fintech