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 build robust, scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices
• Build highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable tech
• Drive analysis and improvement of services' quality and performance
• Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting
• Own aspects of innovative feature and/or system development

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing highly-available online services
• Experience building and deploying services into cloud environments and infrastructure as code
• Strong experience with Kotlin
• Experience implementing GitOps approach
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB)
• Knowledge of system design, distributed systems, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing
• Experience in growth software/saas, edtech, or high-scale B2C applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in industries with compliance requirements (e.g., finance, healthcare, education)
• Familiarity with player data models, real-time services, and telemetry/event tracking
• Interest in tech, education, and child-safe technology development