Medior Backend Developer - Make impact platform teachers

📍 Amsterdam - Hybrid (minimum 50% at the office)

⏱️ 36-40 hours per week

💰 €3800 - €4800 per month

🌍 Futurewhiz is a B Corp

Are you a driven backend developer who wants to make an impact in education and enjoy working with modern tech stacks and solving scalability challenges? At Futurewhiz, you’ll shape the future of our platform by modernizing its architecture to support millions of learners learning smoothly. Want to contribute to the future of digital learning? Apply now!

At Futurewhiz, we have one mission that unites us all:

Every day, we create digital learning products that challenge, motivate, and help children aged 3 to 18 develop. We are now going to do something completely different! Specifically, we are developing a new (AI) platform focused on helping teachers create lesson and practice materials.

For nearly 15 years, Futurewhiz has been the market leader in EdTech in the Netherlands. Our brands – including Squla and Study Go – help children and teenagers aged 3 to 18 learn and grow at their own level and pace. Our mission is clear: "Empowering every child to grow." We’ve been a certified B Corp since 2020, which means we strive for a strong balance between purpose and profit.

Squla is a popular educational brand among (primary school) children, parents and teachers. Every day, more than 160,000 children at home and more than half a million children play the best games and quizzes at school in the classroom. Our mission? Helping children progress through play! We do this by staying close to children's experiences. And to use gaming elements, attractive UX designs and current, changing content.

Study Go (formerly WRTS) is the go-to online platform for secondary school students to prepare for exams. From vocabulary practice and assignments to chatting with tutors and attending group lessons, we offer a comprehensive toolkit to help students succeed. With over 650,000 annual users, Study Go has become one of the key digital platforms for secondary education.

Every teacher wants to inspire their students with strong lessons and effective practice exercises. In reality, however, creating these takes a lot of time and energy. That’s why we put all our expertise and experience to work to support teachers, so they can focus on what truly matters: high-quality education.

Through our work, we contribute to our mission to help every child grow. You will become part of a driven and dedicated team with one clear focus: helping teachers develop lesson presentations, create practice materials, review student work, and everything that comes with it.

As a backend developer for Team Growth, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services that power marketing and growth initiatives across our platforms. You’ll work in a team of passionate backend and frontend engineers who care deeply about clean code, performance, and user impact, collaborating more broadly with the Marketing, Data Science, and Product teams to deliver impactful features that drive business results.

• Ensure scalability, security, and maintainability across our backend services.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and continuously improve our engineering practices.
• Work on systems that support A/B testing and other experimentation frameworks.
• Design and implement APIs, services, and data pipelines that enable marketing automation and personalization.

We’re looking for a medior backend developer who can think strategically and act practically. You should also resonate with the following qualities:

• 3-5 years of experience in software development
• A passion for building scalable, secure and maintainable systems
• Experience working with Python is preferable (or a strong desire to deepen your skills in it)
• Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms is a strong plus
• A collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from and support your team

• 24 vacation days + 3 assigned days off + 1 skipping school day
• Collective pension and health insurance
• A €600 annual learning budget for your professional development
• Unlimited access to external coaches through Inuka Coaching
• Unlimited access to Goodhabitz training programs for professional and personal growth

Additionally:

• Lifetime access to Study Go and Squla accounts
• Office next to Bijlmer Arena station (with the possibility of getting a Swapfiets or an OV business card if you live over 7km from the office)
• A Mac Book for work
• Payroll Giving option to contribute to a good cause
• Healthy lunches at the office,
  unlimited good coffee
  , fresh fruit, and snacks
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