Senior Backend Developer (PHP/Laravel) - AI Practice (EdTech)

Senior Backend Developer (PHP/Laravel) - AI Practice (EdTech)

Job description

Studocu was founded on the principle that equal access to study notes reduces inequality between students. Today, we make it easy for more than 45+ million students to share notes every month and use cutting-edge AI learning tools (like Quizzes, AI Chat, and Ask-AI) to help them ace their study goals. The product was a rocket ship from day one and has shown strong product-market fit on every continent with enviable YoY growth, making us a key player in the exploding EdTech space.

Do you want to work on a platform that makes study materials accessible for 45+ million students?

We are expanding our 12 product teams (90+ back-end, front-end and full-stack developers) and are looking for a talented addition to our AI Practice team, who is a wizard with PHP and has experience with modern Laravel.

AI Practice team's mission is to empower users through intuitive, AI-powered study experiences and to make high-quality content creation accessible to everyone. We're focused on simplifying the way students create and engage with tools like quizzes and flashcards, while improving discoverability and deepening engagement. By continuously refining our product and technical foundation, we aim to build a flexible, impactful practice platform that supports meaningful learning at scale.

You'll work closely with our designers and front-end engineers to shape the future of AI-powered learning at Studocu. From quizzes and flashcards to new AI study experiences, you’ll help build intuitive tools that make it easier for millions of students to learn more effectively. We’re looking for someone who’s excited about the potential of AI in education, eager to tackle complex problems quickly and thoughtfully, and who cares deeply about delivering polished, user-first experiences.

What you’ll be doing here:

• Ship new functionalities every week for a continuously changing product in one of our teams
• You bring a deep knowledge of design, analysis, development, and testing while exceeding industry standards in terms of high-quality code and security.
• Using new techniques such as organising Laravel Applications with Actions.
• You will also work with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to refine high-level stories before they are further presented to your team.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers to ensure code quality.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to established coding standards.

Why you’ll love it here:

• You will be helping to build a product that aids many millions of students worldwide to excel in their courses.
• An awesome office in the centre of Amsterdam with a huge garden, right next to the canals.
• A free healthy lunch with our own chef and unhealthy snacks every day when in the office.
• Your own workspace, including the hardware of your choosing (Mac or Linux).
• We have a hybrid approach to work with at least two days a week in the office.
• Learn from 35 different nationalities and more than 150 colleagues. Bringing your own ideas to the table is more than welcome.
• We are using the latest technologies and updating the older ones whenever possible.
• 24 holidays based on 40 hours per week. We also provide a public transport card and contribute to your pension scheme.

Job requirements

We are looking for you when you are keen to work with PHP8.1 and know what's good in the latest version of Laravel 10. To be successful in this role, this is the kind of profile we have in mind:

• A PHP expert with Laravel experience.
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable and fully tested code.
• You worked in SCRUM before.

Perks

Financial

- Equity scheme in the form of SAR - Gifts - Pension scheme - Referral rewards

Leave-related

- 24 days of paid leave per year - Option to buy unpaid leave - Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)

Learning & development

- Annual hackathons - In-house dutch lessons - In-house L&D workshops - Personal L&D budget of €2,500.- per year

Well-being & mobility

- Annual company trip - Sports subscription with OneFit - Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road

Office, working remotely & flexibility

- Hybrid work set up between home and office - Lots of company events and team building activities - Lunch in our office prepared by our Chef Valentijn - One floor with a garden and the other with a canal view! - Open bar = Friday Drinks! - Option to work up to 4 weeks per calendar year from abroad - Pet-friendly office (with a no-pets zone) - Snacks are on us - Work From Home setup budget of €800,- via Workwize

Where are we

We are located in a beautiful city centre of Amsterdam. Modern-day commerce mixes with Amsterdam’s atmospheric old town in our cosy location that previously served as Woltjer Gymnasium.

Address Keizersgracht 424 Amsterdam, 1016 GC

Join our team

Do you share our passion, drive and vision? Then we’d love to meet you!