Product Engineer

Role overview

Product Engineer at Vedantu

You will be part of Vedantu Engineering while working closely with the VEL business team.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade backend systems and services primarily using Java .
• Write automated tests and validate your own work.

Required qualifications

• 1–3 years of software engineering experience, ideally around 2 years.
• Strong programming fundamentals and proficiency in Java .
• Strong understanding of backend development, APIs, and software design fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot or a similar Java backend framework.
• Experience with at least one SQL or NoSQL database.
• Experience building and shipping software used in a real production environment.
• Ability to take a loosely defined problem and turn it into a working solution.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable interacting directly with business and non-technical stakeholders.
• High ownership and a strong bias toward shipping.
• Strong Plus Experience working in a product company or fast-moving startup.
• B2C, EdTech, e-commerce, or consumer technology experience.
• Experience independently owning features from requirement through production.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and production deployments.
• AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, CI/CD, or microservices experience.
• Experience with tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT , or similar AI coding environments.
• Experience building internal tools, workflow automation, or business-facing products.
• Experience writing automated tests and monitoring production systems.
• What Makes This Role Different In a conventional product development cycle, a requirement may pass through multiple people before reaching production.
• Here, we want to dramatically shorten that loop: Understand → Decide → Build → Test → Ship → Measure → Improve You'll have access to the broader Vedantu Engineering team for architectural guidance and support with complex systems, but you will own getting the solution into production.
• The goal isn't to write more code.
• The goal is to solve the right business problem and get a reliable solution into users' hands quickly.
• What Success Looks Like You understand key VEL workflows and how they connect with Vedantu's technology ecosystem.
• Business requirements move from discussion to production significantly faster.
• You independently ship multiple production features and workflow improvements.
• Your solutions demonstrate measurable business or operational impact.
• AI-assisted engineering materially improves development velocity without compromising quality.
• The VEL team sees Engineering as a direct problem-solving partner rather than the final stage of a lengthy requirements process.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [IN]

About the employer

• Vedantu is looking for a Product Engineer for our Vedantu Early Learning (VEL) team who can take a business problem from idea to production with minimal hand-offs.

Additional role details

• This is not a traditional engineering role where you simply receive a PRD and implement predefined requirements.
• You will work directly with the VEL business team to understand problems, design solutions, build them, deploy them, and continuously improve them.
• The goal is simple: reduce the distance between a business problem and a reliable product in production.
• What You'll Do Work directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements, workflows, and problems.
• Translate business problems into simple, scalable product and technical solutions.
• Understand Vedantu's existing products, codebase, APIs, databases, and systems before deciding whether to reuse, extend, or build.
• Make product and implementation decisions jointly with business stakeholders.
• Own features end-to-end — requirement → design → development → testing → deployment → monitoring → iteration .
• Work with existing APIs, services, databases, and internal platforms.
• Use LLMs and AI coding tools extensively to research, design, code, debug, test, and ship faster.
• Instrument what you build and use production data and feedback to improve it.
• Balance speed with engineering quality, security, maintainability, and reliability.
• Challenge unnecessary complexity and continuously look for ways to reduce the steps between an idea and production.
• What We're Looking For