Backend Developer

Are you looking for a role in development where you can have a direct, positive impact on the future that is children? Are you an experienced developer, with an affinity for ed-tech platforms?  Sounds like this role could be for you!

Introduction to Futurewhiz

For the past 10yrs+, Futurewhiz has been the market leader in Digital Education and it doesn’t stop there. Our platforms, Squla, StudyGo, Scoyo and Studira are growing and evolving, as we continuously strive to achieve our mission of empowering young people in education. We aim to provide digital, personalised education and learning, in order to positively enhance children's learning experiences, and improve their overall confidence. To help us continue to achieve these goals, we’re looking for a Back End Developer to join on our mission, and be a key part of the Squla team, help us to further develop our APIs using your existing database knowledge to make our applications even better!  Want to learn more about our brands? Check out our website here: https://www.futurewhiz.com/.

Team Squla believe that learning is daring to make mistakes, keep trying.  We aim to stimulate a childs learning experience through playing and having fun with our platform.  Using our plaform, children can play and practice all school subjects using the best quizzes and games!  The material has been developed by eduaction experts, in line with the Dutch education system.  Using our online parent account, parents can track their childrens results in a weekly report, keeping them informed of their childs process.  We believe in empowering children through personalised education, and what better platform to use!  To find out more, you can check out www.squla.nl

What are you going to do as our Backend Developer?

Currently, we have a team of 12 developers people working on our platform, building new cool features for children, parents and children. Joining this experienced and growing team will provide you with a great opportunity to work with a super talented group ofindividuals, bringing fresh perspectives on how to automate new components, brainstorming new features, review code and more!   Whether you are utilising the team's existing knowledge, or showcasing your own talents/interests in development, everyday there is an opportunity to learn something new.  For the position, we offer a salary of 50,000 - 60,000euros a year + additional benefits.

Please note that for this position, we cannot accept applicants outside of the EU as we do not provide Visa Sponsorship.

Your typical daily tasks will include (but certainly not be limited to):

• Building new features from the ground up 
• Fixing Jenkins builds if they're broken 
• Monitoring our application
• Debug in our microservice jungle
• Contribute to the brainstorming of new features, and ways to automate things

Who are you?

You are passionate about making the education world a better place for children, and know your way around the development space, bringing experience, and fresh knowledge to the table. We also consider the following to be important: 

• The ability to apply common design patterns, write clean and maintainable code

• Computer science fundamentals, experience with relational databases, automated tests

• Fluent in English, both written and verbal

• Be nice to your colleagues

• And if you are familiar with Python, AWS, HTML5 games and/ or Ruby (on Rails) and GCP. Or working Agile, that’s even better (but not required)

• The office - located near Amstel.

• 25 vacation days + an additional “spijbeldag” (skipping-school day)

• A Macbook to do all of your awesome work on.

• Regular team outings and other fun activities with your colleagues

• A healthy and daily arranged lunch at the office

• The chance to be regularly challenged to a heated game of pingpong

• Unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit & snacks

• StudyGo & Squla account for life 

• An OV business card when you live outside of Amsterdam

• A learning budget to aid your professional development of 600euros per year

• Unlimited access to external, qualified coaches through Inuka Coaching.

• Collective discount on Health insurance

Our platforms are for everyone, and so is our workplace.

The beauty lies in our people’s different backgrounds, ideas, experiences and perspectives. It is this which enables us to help all of our young people fulfil their educational potential no matter who they are and no matter who we are.

Together at Futurewhiz, we actively embrace each other’s differences, which translates into an authentic environment where people bring their unique selves to work, making it easy for others to do the same. We are continuing to foster a diverse and inclusive culture which begins in our office, and extends across our platforms - everyone is welcome on that journey!