Senior Full Stack Developer
Glite Tech · London Area, United Kingdom
About this role
The Senior Full Stack Developer will design and implement a high-scale system for millions of users within an ML-powered tutoring startup. The role involves building CI/CD processes, developing robust data pipelines, and working on ML model deployment alongside a cross-functional team of mobile developers, product managers, and ML engineers. The technical environment includes Python, AWS, Terraform, Docker, and various SQL and NoSQL databases. The candidate will work on real-time recommendation systems and handle large amounts of data across multiple modalities like text, and audio. The position is based in the London office 4 days per week.
Skills & technologies
Nice to have
- Frontend frameworks
- Real-time databases
- In-memory databases
- Educational products experience
- Knowledge-sharing
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We are a small London startup with the ambition to change education with ML-powered tutoring. Our flagship product is a mobile application for teaching English to intermediate and advanced learners.
We’re on the verge of solving one of the biggest challenges in education – making high-quality, personalised learning accessible to everyone. What was once technologically impossible is now within our grasp.
We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to join our growing development team.
What you will do 🚀
- Design and implement a new high-scale system for millions of users
- Build convenient CI/CD processes and testing pipelines to support quick iterative development and system stability
- Work on ML model development with our team to build robust data pipelines and deploy ML models
- Analyse large corpora of data and build real-time recommendation systems
- Work with large amounts of data in different modalities (text, video, images, audio)
- Work in a very cross-functional team, side by side with mobile developers, product managers, ML engineers, and designers
Essential skills 🙏
- Deep Python and AWS knowledge
- Architecture planning and estimation skills
- Experience with CI/CD automation pipelines
- Proficiency with Terraform and Docker
- SOLID, KISS principles, decomposition principles, and resolving monolith vs. microservices trade-offs.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of best practices in building scalable mobile APIs (REST, HTTPS, etc.).
- Good principles of security management (secrets, protocols, etc.).
- Experience with some Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.).
Desirable Skills 👌
- Can speak, or learning to speak, more than one language
- Experience with real-time and/or in-memory databases
- Experience with frontend frameworks
- Experience in developing educational products
- Knowledge-sharing experience (tech talks, articles, YouTube videos, etc.)
- Experience (even non-production) with different types of programming languages
What we can offer ✨
- A real-deal startup adventure: you'll be hopping on a major project while it's still in the works!
- A crew all about people and products
- Work from our London office (4 days per week)
- Freedom to suggest, implement, and test ideas
- Unlimited learning & development budget
- We also offer substantial relocation assistance to support your move, if required
Interview Process 🧪
3 technical interviews, which will all cover
- Problem Solving
- Architecture Design and Product Design
- Domain/Platform Knowledge
After all interviews, we would like to invite you to work with us in our London office for 1-2 paid test days. If everything goes well, we will make an offer to the successful candidate.
