Medior Unity Developer

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

⏱️ 32-40 hours per week

💰 €3800 - €4900 per month

🌍 Futurewhiz is a B Corp

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

Empowering every child to grow by shaping the future of personalized learning for the next generation.

Every day, we create digital learning products that challenge, motivate, and help children aged 3 to 18 grow. Squla Junior is looking for a Medior Unity Developer! Do you want to help thousands of children learn through play while ensuring responsible screen time? Then we are looking for you!

🏰 About Futurewhiz, Squla and StudyGo

For nearly 15 years, Futurewhiz has been the market leader in EdTech in the Netherlands. Our brands – including Squla and StudyGo – 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.

StudyGo (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, StudyGo has become one of the key digital platforms for secondary education.

🎮 What will you do?

The Unity Medior Developer is the technical cornerstone of the Squla Junior team — a Medior Unity engineer with cross-stack awareness who balances future vision with lean, iterative delivery. They co-create the product alongside design and product, ensuring every decision is grounded in both user needs and technical reality. They set the technical direction within Unity, translate product needs into scalable solutions, and anticipate future challenges without over-engineering. Their focus is on building just enough to learn fast, planning and scoping realistically, and keeping every tech decision aligned with the child’s experience and the parent’s trust.

🌟 Your role and impact

• Deep knowledge of architecture, optimization, addressables, and scalable systems for content-heavy games. Plus is if you are able to show your own app releases.

• Experience in structuring, managing, and optimizing data for efficient content pipelines.

• Basic knowledge of backend (Python, AWS) and frontend/web development to guide trade-offs and avoid pitfalls. Has worked with API integrations.

• Turns product and design ideas into clean, scalable technical solutions.

• Builds just enough to learn fast; avoids over-engineering while keeping options open for future growth.

• Breaks down work realistically, manages dependencies, and gives clear, reliable estimates.

• Identifies safe, practical uses of AI (content pipelines, QA, personalization) without compromising child safety or consistency.

• Ensures smooth performance, bug resistance, and maintainability across devices. Experience with structured development processes, incl. build and test automation and version control;

• Pushes for internal tools that let designers and educators create and manage content without dev bottlenecks.

🔥 Who are you?

• Anticipate future problems and solutions, but keep the focus on today’s priorities.

• Explain trade-offs clearly to both devs and non-technical stakeholders.

• Listen across Unity, backend, web, UX, and product, and align needs into coherent solutions.

• Share expertise with peers, support juniors, and contribute to architectural discussions.

• Work in short, testable cycles and adapt based on feedback and results.

• Actively contribute to shaping the product in the triad, not just implementing features.

Bonus points if you:

• Have some Frontend exposure.

💰What do we offer?

• A gross monthly salary of €3800 - €4900 (based on 40 hours, depending on experience)

• 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 StudyGo 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 MacBook for work

• Payroll Giving option to contribute to a good cause

• Healthy lunches at the office, unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks

• A Culture Crew that organizes fun activities like outings, pub quizzes, ski trips, and laser tag

😻 Who are we?

We’re a passionate and diverse team, brought together by a shared mission: helping children thrive in their learning journey, and empowering them to grow through personalised education. 

Our culture is welcoming and authentic—we believe the best work happens when people can be themselves. Whether you’re into book clubs, monthly socials, movie nights, cake-baking contests, Mario Kart showdowns, or ski trips, you’ll find a community that feels like home.  Here at Futurewhiz, there’s something for everyone, and we can’t wait to welcome you!

Our platforms are for everyone, and the same applies to our workplace.

The beauty lies in the diverse backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives of our people. This diversity enables us to help all young learners realize their educational potential, regardless of who they are—or who we are. At Futurewhiz, we actively embrace each other’s differences, fostering an authentic environment where people can truly be themselves. This makes it easier for others to do the same. We’re committed to nurturing a diverse and inclusive culture that starts here in our office and extends across all our platforms—and everyone is welcome on this journey.

🤖 Our use of AI

At Futurewhiz, we believe in fully embracing AI in our way of working.

AI is transforming our roles, and we’ll shape this future together. We use AI to accelerate our mission: to move faster, go further, and improve our support to children, parents, and teachers.

Do you have any questions about AI and our use of it in the recruitment process? Send us a message to recruitment@futurewhiz.com

Will you be our new Unity Developer?

We’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t check every box! If you’re excited about the role, just be yourself and go for it. We value diverse perspectives and are always curious to learn what makes you unique.

Ready to join us? Simply upload your CV and a short motivation via the application button, and we’ll be in touch soon. We can’t wait to meet you!