Software Engineer, Backend

We are looking for a passionate and motivated product engineer who partners with us to build intuitive, scalable, and delightful user experiences for teachers, students, and parents.

As a product Engineer, you will contribute to designing, developing, and deploying high-quality product. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, educators, and gain exposure to real-world usage in schools.

This role offers hands-on ownership, continuous technical growth and product understanding in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

What you’ll achieve in your first 3 months

• Understand the codebase, backend architecture, and core product workflows
• Build strong fundamentals in PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and basic query writing
• Start contributing to feature development, production fixes, and basic query optimization

What you’ll achieve in your first 6 months

• Independently deliver major backend features by writing clean, modular, and optimized code
• Become comfortable with query optimization, and writing scripts for analytics and database migrations
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, QA, and Product teams

What you’ll achieve in your first 12 months

• Own backend modules end-to-end, coordinating closely with Product and Support teams through scoping, design reviews, development, release, and post-release support
• Get the opportunity to work on backend infrastructure projects or contribute to other backend services
• Contribute to onboarding, technical knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of engineering processes

Must have Skills:

• Frameworks & Technologies - Node.js, Express & GraphQL, PostgreSQL
• Tools & Platforms - Git, Knex, GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted development tools
• Experience with scripting and data analysis tasks
• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn
• Ability to write maintainable, readable, and scalable code

Good to have:

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem (Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, API Gateway, etc.)
• Experience with background jobs, queues, and workers
• Exposure to additional data stores such as Redis or ClickHouse or Elastic Search
• Basic understanding of React and Apollo Client
• Product mindset with empathy for end users and strong collaboration skills
• Past working experience in SaaS or product based companies

Is this someone that looks like you?

• Education: B.E/B.Tech degree
• Experience: 1 to 3 years of relevant working experience (SaaS preferred)
• Soft skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills
• We deeply value building the right culture at Toddle, and these are a few things that we look for in each hire – Coach-ability, Curiosity, Ownership, Hustle and Humility