Medior Python Backend Developer

Are you a driven backend developer who wants to make an impact on how children learn? At Futurewhiz, you'll build Squla, the platform that helps more than 160,000 children at home and over half a million in classrooms learn through play, every day. You'll join the Primary Education team and help build the features, experiments, and systems that make learning smarter and more fun. Want to contribute to the future of digital learning?

🌍 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 develop.

🏰 About Futurewhiz, Squla and StudyGo

Futurewhiz is 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. 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 children, parents and teachers. Every day, more than 160,000 children at home and more than half a million children play games and quizzes at school in the classroom. We help children progress through play by staying close to children's experiences and using gaming elements, attractive UX designs and current, changing content.

StudyGo is an online platform for secondary school students to prepare for exams. From vocabulary practice and assignments to chatting with tutors and attending group lessons, it offers a comprehensive toolkit to help students succeed.

🎮 What will you do as our Medior Developer?

You'll join the Primary Education team working on Squla. You'll work in a small multidisciplinary team where product, design, engineering, education and marketing shape solutions together and share responsibility for the results, not just the roadmap. We work in short cycles: six weeks of focused execution, then a week to reflect, learn and replan.

We're rethinking how we build software around AI. Coding agents are taking on a growing share of the implementation work, and we're looking for engineers who already work that way personally and want to help push the team further. You're a backend developer at heart, but you won't stop at the backend: as agents remove friction, picking up frontend, data or deployment work becomes the normal way to keep the team moving.

🌟 Your role and impact

• Turn product ideas into production-ready solutions, working from goals and context rather than waiting for detailed specifications
• Use AI tooling as your default way of working: delegate well-scoped implementation to coding agents, run explorations in parallel, and review the output with strong engineering judgment
• Work across the stack where it avoids handoffs: backend first, frontend, data and infrastructure when needed
• Ensure scalability, security and maintainability across our services
• Shape solutions early together with product, design and education colleagues
• Take ownership of team results: follow whether the things you ship actually improve learning and business outcomes, and iterate when they don't
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help improve how we use AI in our engineering practice

Our stack is:

• Python back-end
• React front-end
• AWS

🔥 Who are you?

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 building and shipping production software
• Solid experience with Python and a passion for scalable, secure and maintainable systems
• Your AI use goes beyond autocomplete: you hand well-scoped tasks to coding agents, review what comes back with a critical eye, and you're building instincts for what to delegate and what to do yourself
• Comfortable working from goals and ambiguity instead of fully specified tickets
• Curious beyond the backend: willing to work in React, data or infrastructure when the team needs 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

💰 What do we offer?

• 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
• 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.

🤖 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.

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.