--- title: 'Backend & Data Platform Engineer at Loora' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/backend-data-platform-engineer-loora-tel-aviv-t4hf7ascpn5d' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Backend & Data Platform Engineer at Loora - **Company:** Loora - **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loora/1c7f38e2-79aa-474b-83cf-77cacf66ae33 ## Job description Loora is on a mission to revolutionize education and break down language barriers with its cutting-edge AI, building the first-ever personal AI English tutor. Loora offers its users an AI tutor that is always available to talk about whatever they want, give immediate feedback on English skills, and guide them on their journey to fluency. We are looking for a Backend Engineer with deep data engineering expertise to build and evolve the systems that power Loora's product, analytics, experimentation, and AI development. You will work across production backend services and data infrastructure, taking technical ownership of the full data lifecycle - from event ingestion and real-time processing to orchestration, modeling, quality, and reliable data access. This role combines hands-on backend development with ownership of Loora's shared data platform, working closely with backend, frontend, AI, DevOps, analytics, and product teams. What you'll do: - Build and maintain production-grade Python and Java backend services, APIs, and reactive data-processing pipelines with clear interfaces, resilient failure handling, and comprehensive observability. - Own and evolve Loora's batch and streaming data pipelines supporting product analytics, learner insights, experimentation, and AI model training. - Design and maintain trusted data models, shared metrics, and semantic-layer business logic across the analytical data platform. - Define and enforce standards for data contracts, testing, lineage, freshness, and observability. - Develop reliable approaches to schema evolution, backfills, replay, workload distribution, and failure recovery. - Collaborate with DevOps, backend, frontend, AI, analytics, and product teams to deliver reusable data capabilities and maintain clear system boundaries. What we're looking for: - At least 6 years of production software engineering experience, primarily in backend systems, including meaningful ownership of data-intensive platforms or infrastructure. - Strong proficiency in Python, Java, and SQL, with experience in testing, typing, performance optimization, and production debugging. - Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including service and API design, asynchronous and concurrent processing, failure handling, and operational reliability. - Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or MongoDB. - Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and production observability. - Deep experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and batch or streaming data systems. - Hands-on production experience with Apache Flink for distributed stream processing. - Hands-on production experience building reactive data-processing pipelines with RxJava/Project Reactor, including backpressure, scheduling, error handling, testing, and operational debugging. - Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka or AWS SQS. - Strong understanding of data modeling, warehouse and lakehouse architecture, schema evolution, and data quality. - Hands-on experience with dbt for data modeling, testing, documentation, lineage, and semantic-layer development. - Hands-on experience with at least one analytical data platform such as Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse, Athena, Trino, or Dremio. - Hands-on experience with at least one dataframe library: Pandas, Polars, or Daft. - Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster. - Clear communication skills and a strong ownership mindset, with a track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives through to production. ## EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE - Experience with data integration and ingestion platforms such as Airbyte, Rivery, or AWS AppFlow. - Experience with conversational AI, speech/audio systems, or real-time communication. - Production experience with Go, Rust, Scala, or Kotlin. - Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects. ## About Loora ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Loora develops a generative AI English tutor that provides personalized, conversational language learning through real-time feedback on pronunciation, grammar, and accent. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Tel Aviv, Israel - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Roy Mor (CEO) and Yonti Levin (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: E-learning, AI-powered language learning - **Target customers**: B2C (serious English learners, advanced and professional learners); expanding into B2B with a General Manager role - **Mission or purpose statement**: "We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to speak English fluently and that learning English shouldn't be a barrier that holds anyone back from fulfilling their dreams and aspirations." [loora.com](https://www.loora.com/) ## Products & Services - **[Loora AI English Tutor](https://www.loora.com/)**: A mobile app (iOS and Android) featuring a conversational AI tutor built on proprietary large language models. Offers real-time feedback on pronunciation, grammar, and accent; supports Business English modules for interviews, meetings, and presentations; and helps prepare for exams like TOEFL and IELTS. Subscription-based, positioned as more affordable than human tutors. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$21.25 million** across 2 rounds [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/loora/__9Dvvx9Ty1exWdTHKSrwY4MvEtOcgMSVj7Usu6eyyigw) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: QP Ventures (lead in Series A), Emerge Ventures (lead in Seed round); 5 institutional investors total [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/loora) - **Growth Signals**: - 33 employees with **23.1% YoY headcount growth** (+9 people) [linkedin.com](https://il.linkedin.com/company/loora) - Active in 7 countries (Israel, Spain, UK, Portugal, South Africa, Belarus, Poland) - 10 active job postings with **150% quarterly increase** in hiring [linkedin.com](https://il.linkedin.com/company/loora) - Launched Android app in July 2024 to expand access [linkedin.com](https://il.linkedin.com/company/loora) - Hired Yulia Karasik as VP of Marketing in 2024 ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary AI**: Uses bespoke, fine-tuned large language models specifically optimized for English conversation, not generic chatbots. - **Deep conversation focus**: Targets advanced and professional learners with complex topic discussion, unlike apps focused on basic vocabulary. - **Real-time feedback loop**: Provides instant, specific coaching on pronunciation, grammar, and accent—mimicking a human tutor. - **Judgment-free environment**: Positions itself as a safe, always-available space for practice, lowering the barrier for shy or busy learners. ## Strategic Focus - **B2B expansion**: Actively hiring a General Manager for B2B, signaling a push into corporate and institutional English training. - **Platform growth**: Building out both iOS and Android channels; increasing marketing spend (hiring User Acquisition Managers). - **Product depth**: Enhancing Business English modules and exam preparation (TOEFL/IELTS) to capture professional and academic segments. ## Why Work Here - **Impact**: As a startup, every role carries significant weight; employees are told "your contributions make a substantial impact on our journey." [loora.com/careers](https://www.loora.com/careers) - **Culture**: Emphasizes "personal accountability" and "ownership" in a mission-driven environment focused on reshaping education. - **Work model**: Hybrid workspace based in Tel Aviv, Israel; employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/loora) - **Team composition**: Small, high-leverage team (33 people) with strong technical DNA (CTO is co-founder, VP R&D, Lead Android Engineer, Staff Backend Developer roles open) - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company markets itself as a "premium" but affordable alternative—suggests a lean, resourceful startup culture ## Sources 1. [loora.com](https://www.loora.com/) 2. [loora.com/careers](https://www.loora.com/careers) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/loora) 4. [linkedin.com](https://il.linkedin.com/company/loora) 5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/loora/__9Dvvx9Ty1exWdTHKSrwY4MvEtOcgMSVj7Usu6eyyigw) ## Other roles at Loora - [Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-loora-tel-aviv-efbbk0a561b5) — Tel Aviv, Israel - [Senior Product Marketing Manager- B2B](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-marketing-manager-b2b-loora-tel-aviv-cb56agwsk4ky) — Tel Aviv, Israel - [Frontend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/frontend-engineer-loora-tel-aviv-3zxtb22vsswa) — Tel Aviv, Israel - [Backend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/backend-engineer-loora-tel-aviv-e7pbb1dkkm91) — Tel Aviv, Israel - [Founding Business Development Representative](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-business-development-representative-loora-tel-aviv-xc5w5v1wnx33) — Tel Aviv, Israel - [Backend Tech Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/backend-tech-lead-loora-tel-aviv-xjgp61nnjjjb) — Tel Aviv, Israel