GrowthX gives India’s most ambitious professionals an unfair career advantage by stacking high-paying jobs, AI-powered learning, and a curated network in one platform.
We’re a profitable company, backed by the largest seed round in the world with 212 angel investors. Over 4,000+ operators and leaders from Apple, TikTok, Spotify, Slack, Netflix, Zoom, Google, Swiggy, and Microsoft use GrowthX products.
The founders were product & growth leaders at Razorpay and CRED. The team today is a diverse group of ex-founders, growth leaders, PhD researchers, game designers, and artists—united by the ambition to build the career infrastructure of India.
Why we’re hiring
GrowthX is 40 people company with a a seven member engineering crew, with two product designer & one product manager. We’re building AI-first career tools: DreamRole for job matching, GrowthX Learning for rapid upskilling, and Membership for high-leverage networks. Complexity is rising fast—LLM workflows, match algorithms, memory graphs. We need a builder who can lead a pod, ship code daily, and grow great engineers while keeping systems clean.
What you’ll do in your first 3–6 months
- Lead a product pod of three engineers and own a vertical such as Learning, DreamRole, or Member experience.
- Design and review backend systems in Fastify, Mongo or Postgres, Redis, WebSockets.
- Turn messy problem statements into shipped features alongside design and product.
- Pair with engineers, clear blocks, and keep code quality high through sharp reviews.
- Run postmortems, set SLOs, and tighten our dashboards and on-call playbooks.
- Hire one or two more engineers and help refine our team rituals.
How the role grows after 6–12 months
- Lead all pods and help ICs level up into tech leads.
- Set cross-repo standards for testing, observability, and incident response.
- Shape our AI architecture—vector search, hybrid RAG, async agents, fine-tuned LLMs.
- Co-own the technical roadmap with founders, from infra upgrades to org design.
- Lead the hiring bar, compensation design, and growth ladders for future engineers.
What your teammates will value
- Hands-on fixes instead of abstract advice.
- Saying no to vague specs and rewriting them into clear plans.
- Calm debugging at 3 am, leaving systems healthier than before.
- Raising quality without killing speed.
- Investing in people as much as code.
Our stack and where it’s heading
| Layer | Today | Next-up |
|---|
| Backend | Express/fastify ,Joi, MongoDB, Postgres ,Redis | Modular Fastify, Zod, Native Mongo, Rust hot paths |
| Infra | Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Neon, Vercel | Container-native infra, Terraform, autoscaling pipes |
| AI-Data | OpenAI, Gemini, Qdrant,LlamaIndex | Hybrid RAG, fine tuned Gemini/Minstral, memory graphs |
| dev-x | Turborepo, Bun ,Prettier+ ESLint, Hey API | OpenAPIsync, StortyBook, Playwright, monorepo gov |
Oualifications (don’t self-reject)
- Five to eight years building backend systems in quick-moving teams.
- At least one year leading engineers as tech lead or EM, ideally 2 years.
- Strong grasp of API design, data modeling, and system design.
- Shipped full products end-to-end, that are used by millions of people.
- Bonus: shipped AI features—LLMs, vector DBs, RAG stacks.
How we work
- Seven engineers, zero middle layers, everyone ships.
- Documentation culture—approach docs, tech specs, any changelog, weekly sprint calls, everything is documented.
- Pods own outcomes, no ticket throwing.
- High trust, high expectations—great work flies, ego doesn’t.