Mobile Engineer (React Native + Fullstack)

SuperKalam (YC W23); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Job summary

SuperKalam (YC W23) in Bengaluru is seeking a high-ownership engineer to help build the company's AI tutor platform. You will own features across mobile apps and backend services, with a strong emphasis on quality, performance, and scalable architecture.

Ideal candidates have 2–4 years in React Native and NodeJS/NestJS, enjoy solving complex engineering problems, and are eager to move fast while maintaining high code quality and smooth collaboration.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in mobile app and backend engineering (React Native, NodeJS/NestJS)
• Strong engineering fundamentals and architecture sense
• Experience with AI workflows, plugins, tools, and agent workflows

Responsibilities

• Building new features and initiatives in backend and mobile app
• Deployments, performance, push notifications, etc
• Set up tooling and running experiments - crons, automation workflows, AI tooling, etc.
• Product and design reviews
• Pushing tech quotient of the team and staying updated with evolving technology and AI tooling
• Make decisions prioritising speed to production and quality

Skills

React Native

NodeJS

NestJS

Mobile app development

AI in workflow

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Redis/Caching

Security & Scaling

Python

Job description

This is a high impact role. We are eager to talk to you if you have an amazing sense of quality in engineering deliverables and strong ownership.

About us?

We are the crazy ones — shaping education with a deep commitment to our students, building a generational company along the way, and having a blast doing it. We absolutely love people who communicate smoothly, take ownership naturally, and are eager to grow and move fast.

What you will work on?

You will be joining us in this 1-100 journey, building the best AI tutor platform out of India (likes of Duolingo). So there is tons of UX, personalisation, gamification, problem solving, automations, scaling, and new ideas to work upon that comes along.

Requirements

• Ideally 2-4yrs of experience in building Mobile apps + backend engineering (React Native and NodeJS/NestJS)
• Strong engineering fundamentals
• Loves great architecture, uses best practices and can write scalable code.
• Uses AI in workflow beyond prompting - think, skills, plugins, workflows, loops, agents, etc.
• Mobile engineering skills -
• High quality UI and smooth animations
• Have handled various mobile app challenges like - performance, optimized app builds, push notifications, etc.
• Bonus - writing bridges, widgets, own libraries, etc.
• Software engineering skills -
• CRUD apis
• Redis, Queues, Caching
• Bonus - Elastic search
• Relational DBs - PostgreSQL / MySQL
• Rate limiting
• Basics of scaling and security
• Worked with cloud - AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Preferred - Gen AI engineering skills -
• Big plus - Worked on traditional AI/ML techniques, model training
• Built production grade AI pipelines
• Worked on agentic workflows - requirement gathering - planning - execution
• Worked on Voice agents
• Familiar with other modern AI tech stack (quality RAGs, knowledge graph, tooling, etc.)
• Bonus - Have worked in Python before

PS:

Can you write code which can adapt to requirements 6 months in future?

Responsibilities

• Building new features and various initiatives in backend and mobile app
• Deployments, performance, push notifications, etc
• Set up tooling and running experiments - crons, automation workflows, AI tooling, etc.
• Product and design reviews
• Pushing tech quotient of team - keep self updated with evolving technology and AI based tooling
• Take decisions driven by speed to production + quality for today
• We thrive on smooth communication, ownership and agility. It’s a must.

Who Will Thrive Here

• Has worked in product based startup for 2+ years (including internship)
• Enjoys solving complex engineering and product problems
• Is engineering mindset - writing scripts or automation, or building quick dashboards (using Claude Code)
• Hunger to learn and grow a startup as a core team
• Ownership mindset, who is also a strong individual contributor
• First principle thinking and communication.

Compensation

Experience wise: 15 to 34LPA + Esops for the right candidate.

Important:

We thrive on smooth communication, ownership and agility. It’s a must.