Full Stack Developer

Pune, Maharashtra, India (India_MH)
Posted 20 Days Ago
Office - Flexible
Fulltime

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As a Full Stack Developer, you’ll lead API and Microservices development within agile, cross-functional teams. You’ll collaborate with designers and researchers to build both rapid prototypes and production-ready, accessible code. Strong technical leadership and adherence to modern practices such as Clean Code, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps are essential, along with proficiency in current frameworks and languages.

Key responsibilities:

Framework conceptualization:

• Conceptualizing the framework to be manufactured, making succinct prerequisites from customer meeting or market examination.

• Planning the conveyances, sprints, emphases, and assessing the assets required and the cost, organizing errands as indicated by prerequisites.

• Designing framework engineering.

Creating application and space models:

• Planning and normalizing the database.

• Advancing plan by applying configuration designs.
• Picking innovation stack for building the arrangement.

• Making application and space models.

Collaboration amongst framework and clients:

• Constructing the product and composing unit tests assuming any. And designing and enhancing collaborations amongst framework and clients.

Create/writer clean code:

• A full stack engineer should be gifted at all layers of innovation stack - it might be a front-end outline and conduct, middleware, backend, database questions and so on.

• Creating robotized or manual test suits to thoroughly test for bugs.

Working with internal teams

• Liaise with developers, designers and product managers to identify new features

• Proactively advise on the best practices during feature-conceptualization
• Tailor the requirements to customize features that leverage native Android resources and patterns
• Proactively advise on best practices

• Assist in the budgeting process

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred

• Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience
• Strong expertise in API and Microservices development using Scala, Play, Akka, Spray, and other JVM languages (Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure, Ruby)
• Solid experience with RESTful services, public HTTP APIs, messaging systems (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ)
• Proficient in Clean Code, SOLID principles, TDD/BDD, and delivering efficient, readable, maintainable code
• Skilled in mocking/testing tools (Mockito, ScalaTest, Spock, Jasmine, Mocha) and performance/behaviour testing (Selenium, Geb, Wiremock, JMeter, Gatling, Sauce Labs)
• Experienced in CI/CD, DevOps practices, and working with IntelliJ/Eclipse, Git, and build tools (SBT, Maven, Gradle)
• Deep understanding of SQL (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Neo4J, Cassandra) databases
• Knowledgeable in system administration/configuration, working with Unix-like OS (Linux/macOS)
• Strong front-end foundation: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, responsive design, accessibility standards, and JS libraries
• Background in building and scaling high-traffic, server-side applications and handling large data sets
• Fast learner, capable of picking up new tools/techniques quickly; excellent at communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experienced in mentoring developers, optimizing team code, and presenting work to peers, user groups, and business audiences

• Fluency in English

What we offer

We believe our people are our greatest advantage. We value curiosity, purpose, and the drive to make a real difference. When you join Alef, you join a mission — and a team that’s just as passionate about transforming education as you are.

Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:

• Annual performance bonus

• Health insurance

• Enhanced leave policy

At Alef, we don’t just imagine a better future for education.

We build it — together.