Novakid Inc
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2017
📚 Education
👥 B2C
Education • Ecommerce • B2C
Novakid Inc. is an online English school designed specifically for children aged 4 to 12. The platform offers interactive lessons centered around language immersion with native-speaking teachers, tailored to align with European educational standards. Featuring various age-appropriate programs, speaking groups, and engaging learning materials, Novakid emphasizes a fun learning environment to build confidence and fluency in English for young learners globally.
Principal Backend Engineer – Architect Track
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🕒 May 7
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Novakid Inc
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2017
📚 Education
👥 B2C
Education • Ecommerce • B2C
Novakid Inc. is an online English school designed specifically for children aged 4 to 12. The platform offers interactive lessons centered around language immersion with native-speaking teachers, tailored to align with European educational standards. Featuring various age-appropriate programs, speaking groups, and engaging learning materials, Novakid emphasizes a fun learning environment to build confidence and fluency in English for young learners globally.
📋 Description
• Take ownership of backend architecture as a hands-on technical leader • Spend half your time in the code — reference implementations, critical components, refactors • Make deliberate architectural choices about how the backend should evolve • Answer architectural questions: how to evolve the monolith, set service boundaries, design for geo-distribution, and integrate AI without accumulating debt • Set backend architecture standards and make major technical decisions across teams • Guide the path from monolith toward a more modular, service-oriented backend • Develop service blueprints: API conventions, EDA patterns, testing, observability, deployment • Design cloud architecture across AWS and GCP, including multi-region and geo-distributed designs • Manage high-load, real-time systems: live class infrastructure, latency budgets, caching, capacity • Determine the best approach between buy, build, or assemble — balancing managed service use, no-code tools, or POCs
🎯 Requirements
• 7+ years of backend engineering, deeply hands-on in Python • Production experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Postgres, Redis • Strong AWS architecture experience (EKS, Lambda, RDS, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, and so on); working knowledge of GCP a plus • Experience designing high-load, latency-sensitive, and geo-distributed systems • Pragmatic judgment on buy vs. build vs. assemble — managed services, no-code, and agentic tooling as first-class options, not shortcuts • A deliberate working style: you research, weigh tradeoffs, document decisions, and explain them clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike • Nice to have LLM integrations in production (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI) — evaluation, cost, reliability • Active use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) as part of how you ship
🏖️ Benefits
• Fully remote work (core hours GMT+3) • A chance to shape the future of AI-driven education • A fun, dynamic team that loves building innovative products • Unlimited holidays – because we trust you to deliver • Bonuses and stock options – we grow together
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