Software Engineer 1 (Backend)

Interview Kickstart is a premier career transformation platform turbocharging tech careers through AI upskilling.

Founded in 2014 in Santa Clara by Soham Mehta, ex-Box Engineering Leader, and Ryan Valles, a transformative P&L leader and former CEO with a track record of scaling ventures, Interview Kickstart’s vision is to help every tech professional thrive in today’s fast-evolving tech industry.

With 40+ domain-specific courses—from foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI to Agentic AI, System Design, and DSA—Interview Kickstart equips engineers, PMs, data professionals, and tech leaders to accelerate their careers. Its 600+ instructors—industry practitioners, hiring managers, and senior engineers from FAANG+ companies—bring real-world insight and cutting-edge expertise into every classroom.

Beyond upskilling, Interview Kickstart offers end-to-end career support. Personalized mock interviews, resume and LinkedIn branding, career coaching, salary negotiation guidance, and performance-based job referrals ensure that your AI upskilling translates into real career breakthroughs. Over 25,000 professionals have already advanced their careers through Interview Kickstart.

Recognized by TIME x Statista and GSV 150 as a top EdTech company, Interview Kickstart is the go-to platform for tech professionals looking to future-proof their careers in the age of AI.

Let's start with who we are:

Interviews can be hard. And when it comes to the top tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc., they can be downright brutal. Most candidates don’t make it simply because they don’t prepare well enough. IK helps candidates nail the toughest tech interviews. At IK, current and former hiring managers at these top companies take candidates through an intense prep course to prepare them to crack the toughest Technical interviews. You could think of us as ‘the everything store’ for career transitions and interview skill development.

How do we do that, you ask?

We have a structured approach to interview success, which includes:

• Career Accelerator Course

• Comprehensive end-to-end courses and platform

• A roster of over 600+ instructors from leading Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix

• A holistic approach that includes live classes, mock interviews, personalized coaching, resume refinement, career strategies, and invaluable referrals

What’s more exciting is that we are completely remote and hiring the best people we can find who are currently based out of India or wanting to be in India.

Let's start with who we are:

Interviews can be hard. And when it comes to the top tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc., they can be downright brutal. Most candidates don’t make it simply because they don’t prepare well enough. IK helps candidates nail the toughest tech interviews. At IK, current and former hiring managers at these top companies take candidates through an intense prep course to prepare them to crack the toughest Technical interviews. You could think of us as ‘the everything store’ for career transitions and interview skill development.

How do we do that, you ask?

We have a structured approach to interview success, which includes:

• Career Accelerator Course

• Comprehensive end-to-end courses and platform

• A roster of over 600+ instructors from leading Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix

• A holistic approach that includes live classes, mock interviews, personalized coaching, resume refinement, career strategies, and invaluable referrals

What’s more exciting is that we are completely remote and hiring the best people we can find regardless of geography.

What will you be doing?

• You will be closely working with a team of other experienced developers and doing pretty much everything, from developing large features to fixing on-call bugs.

• You will be designing and developing new APIs, optimizing/fixing bugs in the existing APIs, and writing tests for the APIs.

• If there are any on-call bugs, resolving them will be your first priority. And then, you will continue working on the feature development planned for the sprint.

• Additionally, if you have experience/interest in front-end development, you will be contributing to front-end development in NextJS and jQuery.

What would excite us

• An AI-first approach for solving the problems.

• 0.5+ years of full-time experience in Python and Django/Django REST framework (DRF).

• Good understanding of MySQL, Git, and GitHub/GitLab.

• Good debugging and online searching skills.

• Good communication skills.

• Good problem-solving skills. (Ability to solve easy data structures and algorithms problems).

Why you will enjoy working with us?

• Permanent remote/WFH and flexible work culture.

• Cutting-edge technology stack.

• An AI-first approach for solving the problems.

• Complete ownership and trust from the top management.

• Ideas and concerns are carefully listened to by the top management.

• Experiment, fail, and learn.

• Rapid career progression for high performers.

• High-pedigree, high-caliber team.

• Learn how a fast-growing startup works and scales.