Principal Engineer \ Tech Lead

Loora is on a mission to revolutionize education and break down language barriers with its state-of-the-art AI technology, crafting the first-ever personal AI English tutor. Loora opens up a world of possibilities by providing an ever-present AI tutor capable of engaging in meaningful conversations, offering immediate feedback on English proficiency, and supporting users on their path to fluency.

We are seeking a talented Engineering Tech Lead to join our growing core team!

Your Role:

As Engineering Tech Lead at Loora, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of educational technology and creating a product millions of users will love and benefit from. Your responsibilities will mainly focus on designing, implementing, and scaling our mobile app's architecture for rapid growth.

Your technical decisions and implementation skills will be pivotal in building a robust, scalable, and efficient system capable of delivering an amazing experience to a rapidly growing number of users. You will also take a big part in shaping and cultivating our engineering culture. Join Loora now, while we're small and agile, to make a significant impact on the product we're passionate about.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and hands-on implementation of robust, scalable distributed systems across our mobile and web apps.
• Lead the architectural direction to ensure our infrastructure can scale seamlessly to serve millions of users.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance, participate in code and design reviews to maintain high development standards.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of of industry experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tools

- Technical leadership experience (Architect/tech lead or similar roles)

- Experience in designing and managing production environments

- Strong familiarity with distributed system design patterns, microservices architecture, scalability principles and Python.

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment, infrastructure as code and Kubernetes.

- Mentorship and leadership skills and a can-do approach.