Senior Unity Developer

At Futurewhiz, we create digital learning products that help children unlock their full potential. We are looking for a Unity Senior Developer to strengthen our team.

About Futurewhiz, StudyGo, and Squla

For 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.

At Squla, children up to grade 8 practise all school subjects through fun quizzes and games. Everything has been developed by education experts and fits the Dutch education system.

StudyGo is the platform for secondary school students to prepare for tests. From learning words to tutoring and tutoring: StudyGo offers a comprehensive toolkit to help students succeed. With 650,000+ users per year, we are a fixture in secondary education.

Position overview

The Unity Senior Developer is the technical cornerstone of the Squla Junior team — a senior 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.

Hard Skills (Technical & Product Vision)

• Unity expertise: 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.

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

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

• Product-technical translation: Turns product and design ideas into clean, scalable technical solutions.

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

• Planning & scoping: Breaks down work realistically, manages dependencies, and gives clear, reliable estimates.

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

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

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

Soft Skills (Collaboration & Mindset)

• Visionary but pragmatic: Anticipates future problems and solutions, but keeps the focus on today’s priorities.

• Strong communicator: Explains trade-offs clearly to both devs and non-technical stakeholders.

• Collaborative partner: Listens across Unity, backend, web, UX, and product, and aligns needs into coherent solutions.

• Mentorship mindset: Shares expertise with peers, supports juniors, and contributes to architectural discussions.

• Iterative mindset: Works in short, testable cycles and adapts based on feedback and results.

• User-first mindset: Keeps kids’ joy and parents’ trust at the center of technical decisions.

• Co-creator: Actively contributes to shaping the product in the triad, not just implementing features.

Our perks

• Office near Bijlmer Arena

• 24 vacation days (based on full time employment) + 3 appointed days + an additional “spijbeldag” (skipping-school day) 

• MacBook for all your work

• Regular team outings and other fun activities with your colleagues

• A healthy and daily arranged lunch at the office

• Unlimited access to Goodhabbitz for online courses and training for personal and professional development

• Pingpong battles encouraged

• Great coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks always available

• Lifetime access to StudyGo & Squla

• OV card or Swapfiets depending on your travel distance

• Unlimited access to external, qualified coaches through Inuka Coaching

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!