Software Engineer - Backend

About Us

Quizizz is one of the fastest-growing EdTech platforms in the world. Our team is on a mission to empower every educator to motivate every learner in the world. Our platform offers engaging and interactive quiz-based learning experiences and is used by more than 70 million people every month in over 150 countries, including 80% of U.S. schools. We have phenomenal investors, we're profitable, and we're committed to growing and improving every day.

With a commitment to fostering active learning, and taking Quizizz to more learners across the globe. If you're excited about education and international SaaS and want to build towards a mission that you can be proud of, then Quizizz is the right place for you.

What you'll do...

• You will architect, build, scale, backend system that powers our applications which are loved and used by millions of learners every day.
• You will work closely with a cross-functional team consisting of strategy, design, development, and program managers to determine how to design scalable backend systems and APIs to meet their needs.
• You possess a passion for improving techniques, processes, tracking, and continuously improving our engineering practices.

Who you are...

• You must have at least 1+ years of professional experience.
• You will be utilizing technologies like Redis and Websockets to create a high-reliability, low-latency API that will handle massive multiplayer sessions.
• You will be building a database layer using MongoDB to efficiently store/retrieve large amounts of data.
• You will be setting up suitable backup and redundancy measures for maintaining 100% uptime for all our mission-critical services.
• You will be logging all data, and setting up jobs to generate analytics reports that will drive all our decisions.