About us

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In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech! And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!

Founder Profile

Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building, here

Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who enjoys building products end-to-end and is excited about solving real customer problems. You will work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teams to ship impactful features, improve user experiences and build scalable systems that power our core products.

This role is ideal for engineers who are equally comfortable building customer-facing experiences and designing scalable backend systems.

What You'll Do

Own product features end-to-end, from problem definition and technical design to implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Build and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data models that power our products.
Develop intuitive, performant, and responsive user interfaces that deliver a great customer experience.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other engineers to translate business requirements into high-quality software solutions.
Design systems that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable as our product and user base grows.
Improve application performance, observability, and operational excellence across the stack.
Write clean, well-tested, and production-ready code while participating actively in code reviews and technical discussions.
Debug production issues, identify root causes, and drive fixes with a strong sense of ownership.
Contribute to engineering best practices, tooling, and architectural decisions.

What We're Looking For

3–5 years of software development experience building and shipping production applications.
Strong experience building full-stack applications with meaningful exposure to both frontend and backend development.
Proficiency in one or more backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, or Python and experience with modern backend frameworks.
Strong experience with modern frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, TypeScript, or similar frameworks.
Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems fundamentals, databases, caching, and asynchronous processing.
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services.
Good understanding of relational and/or NoSQL databases, query optimization, and data modeling.
Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production debugging.
Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests.
Strong problem-solving ability, product mindset, and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Points

Experience building consumer-facing products at scale.
Experience working in high-growth startups or product companies.
Exposure to AI/LLM-powered products and workflows.
Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated ownership of business-critical features or product initiatives.

Life @ Leap

Mutual Respect

We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.

Bias for action

We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible

Learn & get better

Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.

Growth mindset

We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.

Full Stack Engineer