This is a remote position.
Background:
Started in June 2020, 21K School is an online-only School with personalised, affordable and flexible education for K-12 students globally. It is a category creator in the formal K-12 space of Education, offering high-quality schooling to students irrespective of their location and time zone.
Our goal is to make quality education accessible, affordable and flexible for all students irrespective of their location or socio-economic background. We are a 100% online school and presently offer three curricula for our students - Indian, American and British.
We are expanding our Team and are looking for passionate Instructional and Pedagogical Leaders in K-12 Space to be a part of the path-breaking journey.
Responsibilities:
Lead the technical design of solutions for problems requiring an application design - be it APIs, frontends, middleware and/or databases
Help the developers in task estimation, planning, tracking and resolving technical blocker issues.
Keep the Project Managers and/or Product Owners updated proactively
Prepare suitable levels of documentation and manuals
Enforce engineering hygiene both in process as well as code quality
Help realize regular delivery cycles using CI/CD and automation
Take accountability for L3 support issues in production and resolve the same promptly using the developer team
Conduct retrospectives that provide transparent technical feedback and inputs to each developer personalized to their skill and experience level
Requirements
Requirements:
Should have minimum 7+ years of Development experience & at least 2+ years of experience as a lead on projects involving Javascript, JS frameworks (React, Node),UI frameworks, and Databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
Core Javascript knowledge is a must
Experience on cloud-native architectures and cloud deployment is preferred
Experience with building applications for massive scale is a plus
Past history of stakeholder-facing roles with good communication and documentation skills is preferred
Assist in documenting requirements and resolving technical clarification with client
Experience with agile delivery, and automation using CI/CD
Good working knowledge of core computer science topics involving asynchronous processing, service-oriented architectures and distributed systems.
Experience with leading a team of at least 5+ members is a must
Benefits
Best in the Industry, commensurate with experience and industry practice.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7 years of development experience
- At least 2 years of experience as a technical lead on projects involving JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, UI frameworks, and databases
- Core JavaScript knowledge
- Experience with agile delivery and CI/CD automation
- Good working knowledge of asynchronous processing, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems
- Experience leading a team of at least 5 members
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and cloud deployment
- Experience building applications for massive scale
- Stakeholder-facing experience with strong communication and documentation skills
- Ability to document requirements and resolve technical clarifications with clients
What We Do
21K School is an online K–12 school providing personalized, flexible education for learners from early years through secondary grades. Its technology-enabled platform combines live, interactive classes with on-demand learning, supporting Indian, British, American, Cambridge, and Pearson pathways. The school emphasizes accessible, affordable, borderless education, helping students develop academic knowledge, problem-solving, creativity, leadership, and future-ready skills while connecting learners in a global community.
