AI Product Engineer

Company:

SigIQ.ai is an AI x EdTech company on a mission to make one-on-one, world-class learning available to every student on Earth. Our debut AI tutoring app, PadhAI has already coached 200,000+ learners — and, in a live showdown, claimed National Rank #1, outscoring 1.3M student test takes and GPT-4o/Claude 3. This historical achievement was widely covered by 70+ national news outlets across India. Backed by GSV Ventures, The House Fund, Peak XV (Sequoia India), Duolingo, and more, we just announced a $10M seed round — one of the five largest EdTech seed rounds in 2024. Now we’re scaling fast to bring limitless, personalized education to students here in the US (see our US focused product, EverTutor). If you’re a senior backend engineer who loves hard problems, massive impact, and shipping at lightspeed, join us and write the code that powers the next generation of AI tutors. The revolution in learning starts here — and it starts with you.

Team:

Dr. Karttikeya Mangalam founded SigIQ.ai in July 2023 and is committed full-time serving as the CEO and AI team lead. Karttikeya is a PhD graduate from the Berkeley AI Research lab advised by Prof. Jitendra Malik (top 10 AI researchers in the world) and over his last 7 years of research at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Meta AI, Google AI and IIT Kanpur, published 40+ research papers that have been cited 7000+ times. Karttikeya is joined by Prof. Kurt Keutzer as co-founder, and a team of fifteen full-time employees from elite institutions such as, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, EPFL, IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur, working across AI, Engineering, Product & Growth.

Position Overview:

We’re looking for a cracked front-end (or, full stack with a focus on frontend) developer, with prior experience in building consumer tech. This is a one in a company’s lifetime opportunity to join a fast-moving high-growth startup at the very initial phases (seed stage) and drive amazing impact by helping build AI-powered applications of the future.

This role reimagines future learning experiences to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and currently employed garden variety tech prevalent in education. You'll leverage your tech expertise to build futuristic GenAI applications that go beyond chatbot-style user experiences by integrating AI seamlessly to all user interactions. You will work hand-in-hand with our world-class engineers, researchers, and educators.

Qualifications:

Non-negotiables:

Prior experience in React.js for web development in consumer tech. Your primary ownership will be building delightful and responsive UI experiences for our AI-powered tutoring application.

Unassailable rock strong work ethic. We work 6 days a week, and 50-to-60-hour work weeks are routinely expected. Of course, we compensate accordingly.

Strong belief in a future where every student has a personalized AI tutor mentoring them to learn better, faster and achieve their goals.

Good to have:

Background 30 points

15 points: 2 YOE at a pre-Series B consumer-tech start-up ( $1 M raised).

5 points: 1 YOE in an education-technology company.

5 points: Graduate of a tier 1 engineering institute/department

5 points: 1+ YOE as Lead Backend (team size > 4) or Tech Lead (team size > 3)

Product & App-Dev Experience 20 points

5 points: Shipped a React web app serving 100k+ MAU.

5 points:Offline-PWA. Implemented Service-Workers, background sync & push for seamless offline UX.

5 points: Integrated Stripe/Razorpay flows and real-time notification pipeline (web-push or in-app)

5 points: Set up routing + universal links across web & mobile (marketing, attribution, etc.)

Lifecycle, Analytics & Observability 20 points

5 points: Integrated Mixpanel / Amplitude / Segment (event modelling, funnels, cohorts).

5 points: Rolled out Sentry / Datadog RUM / Rollbar plus feature-flag framework (LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, etc.).

5 points: Kept initial JS 100 KB, aggressive code-splitting, tree-shaking, lazy-loading

5 points: Implemented SEO, structured data and server-side rendering / dynamic rendering at scale.

Performance Experience 10 points

5 points: Achieved LCP < 1 s, CLS < 0.1, TTI < 100 ms on a production site

5 points: Kept initial JS 100 KB, aggressive code-splitting,tree-shaking, lazy-loading

Bravado 20 points

10 points: 1600+ rating on CodeChef/HackerRank/CodeForces/ICPC Regionalist+

5 points: Maintained an open-source repo or npm package with 500+ stars or 1k+ weekly downloads

5 points: Like Grinding (and have battle scars/stories to prove it)

If you do not qualify all the non negotiables, please do not apply.

If you do not collect at least 40 points in good to have, please do not apply.

Candidates who score 85 points or more and complete the interview process

will receive an iPhone 16 as a token of our appreciation,

irrespective of the final hiring decision.

Location: SigIQ is HQ’d in Berkeley, California and has a Gurgaon office for the India team. You will primarily be working out of our Berkeley office.

Our Promise: We will offer best in class work environment, leading market compensation, and absolutely top-tier fully dedicated and mission-oriented team. If you're a talented engineer with a fire in your belly and a passion for education, we want to hear from you! Join SigIQ.ai and build the future where every student has their own personalized learning mentors.

Reach out: with a brief intro, resume and total scored points.