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About Ambitio: Copilot for Education Abroad

At Ambitio, we're building India's first AI-powered global admissions platform that helps students get into their dream schools. Our mission is to democratize access to quality global education by making the admissions process 10x easier through personalized AI guidance. We combine advanced AI technology with alumni mentorship to help students build stronger profiles and craft compelling applications.

We're a founding team of IIT BHU alumni who have experienced firsthand the challenges of global higher education admissions. More than 100,000+ users have explored our platform and have received admits from top institutions like Stanford, Oxford, NYU, Cornell, Columbia and other leading universities. We're backed by notable investors including BLinC Invest, First Cheque and We Founder Circle.

About the Role

As the Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for building scalable data pipelines, backend services, and cloud infrastructure to power our AI-driven platform. Leading the entire engineering team. Help founders foster a high-performance engineering culture with best coding practices, documentation, and DevOps workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Tech Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead backend, data engineering, and infrastructure efforts, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Drive microservices architecture and serverless implementations on AWS.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate LLM-powered features efficiently.

Backend & Data Engineering:

• Architect and develop high-performance APIs using Django & NodeJS.
• Build scalable ETL pipelines to collect, clean, and update university and course data.
• Work with RDS, DynamoDB, and MongoDB for structured and unstructured data management.

Cloud & DevOps:

• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and AWS infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Amplify etc.).
• Ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud infrastructure.
• Automate deployments and optimize system performance.

Team Leadership & Growth:

• Lead and mentor backend and DevOps engineers.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture with best coding practices, documentation, and DevOps workflows.

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This is an in office, full-time role. Our entire engineering team works out of our BLR office.

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What makes you a great fit?

• 3-4 years of experience in backend development, data engineering, and cloud infrastructures.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and make key architectural decisions.
• Expertise in Python (Django) and Node.js (Nest.js) for backend development.
• Strong experience with AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, CI/CD, Microservices, DevOps).
• Experience building ETL pipelines and managing large datasets for AI-powered applications.
• Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is preferred.
• Experience working with AI/ML teams, particularly in RAG and LLM fine-tuning workflows, is a plus.

Why Join Us?

• You will build a category, not a feature Admissions is a broken multi-billion-dollar industry. We’re rebuilding it from first principles — with data, velocity, and craftsmanship. This is a once-in-a-decade chance to define a new default.
• You own the technical vision end-to-end From architecture → infra → velocity → culture. You’re not inheriting a messy legacy stack; you’re defining the blueprint for the entire engineering team.
• Your impact is immediate and personal You’ll ship a feature and literally see someone’s life trajectory change in real time. That feedback loop is rare. And unforgettable.
• You hate slowness, love the fast-paced culture Your systems define how fast we diagnose, fix, and scale. You get to set the unreasonable pace. If you move at 10x, Ambitio moves at 10x.

Hiring Process

We’re looking for ambitious builders who want to shape Ambitio’s future. Here’s how we approach hiring:

• ☕ Intro chat with Vikrant (Co-Founder): A conversation about your journey, key contributions, ambitions, how we fit together
• 📝 Technical Interview 1: A deep dive into your coding ability: building clean APIs, writing scalable backend logic, and demonstrating strong problem-solving through real-world scenarios
• 💻 Technical interview 2: Evaluates how you design and integrate data systems end-to-end and your ability to turn messy data into intelligent behaviour
• Technical Interview 3: Tests your architecture instincts: how you design scalable systems, choose infra, ensure reliability, and diagnose/solve complex production issues at speed
• 🎨 Final discussion with Dirghayu (Co-Founder): A discussion to know more about your style of working, leadership & management style, how will you build and scale team and product both.
• 🎉 Offer: If it’s a fit, we’ll move quickly to bring you on board

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