Backend Architect

About Meraki

Meraki, a Section 8 not-for-profit organisation started by alumni of Harvard, IIM-Bangalore and Teach For India, emerged from the myriad stories of parents who have not been to schools themselves and are fighting to put their children on a different life path. We strive to enable low-income families to support the development of their children by creating conducive home-environments. During the course of its  journey, Meraki has impacted hundreds of parents through its workshops and home-based activities in under-resourced communities of Delhi.

Together with its beneficiaries, the parents, Meraki is working towards an India free of child neglect. In this pursuit, Meraki has taken giant strides which have been recognised by:


• Fast Company, New York (U.S.A) - Meraki became the first Indian not-for-profit to be declared a winner of the World Changing Ideas Awards in Education (2019)
• Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC), U.C. Berkeley (U.S.A) - Meraki was selected to represent India at the Global Social Venture Competition held at UC Berkeley, California

Why Parents?

If you had to choose between putting food on your table and spending quality time with your infant, which would you choose? This is the sort of decision many parents working with Meraki face every day. The income earned by a single breadwinner is usually insufficient to cover basic household expenses, thereby forcing both parents to spend crucial time away; time they could otherwise have spent supporting the development of their children.

Many parents also express a want of skills to adequately care for their children; they feel incapacitated to fulfil their children’s needs. This results in diminished confidence and increased levels of stress, thereby blunting their ability to create a conducive learning environment at home. Paucity of resources further implies the inability to setup proxies for home care and learning support on the part of the parents. This intensifies the vicious cycle of low-confidence, stress and unfavourable home environments, eventually producing poor early developmental outcomes of children. Read more about the problem here.

What We’re Up To

Meraki imagines a more equitable world where all parents, irrespective of their socio-economic or educational backgrounds, are able to provide quality early childhood education and care to their children. In that pursuit, we are currently working on an in-house product that aims to revolutionize early childhood education and care for 74 million children in the 3-6 year age group.

What We’re Looking For

Strong hands-on technologists with a minimum of 2 years backend application, data and platform engineering experience. We are looking for someone who is curious and talented with experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment. The candidate should be able to work independently and develop a robust, well-tested and scalable backend based on Meraki’s product requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience building and architecting robust backends using Node.js / Django etc.
• A solid understanding of web services including defining and developing RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures etc.
• Working experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda etc.) building web services and highly scalable applications or equivalent
• Good understanding and experience working with NoSQL databases
• The ability to work independently and develop robust, unit-tested, scalable software
• A strong hold on Git and collaboration on GitHub
• Excellent communication skills