Medior Backend Developer

Are you a driven backend developer who wants to make an impact in education and enjoy working with modern tech stacks and solving scalability challenges? At Futurewhiz, you’ll shape the future of our platform by modernizing our platform architecture to support millions of learners to learn smoothly. Want to contribute to the future of digital learning?

About Futurewhiz

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. through personalized education." We’ve been a certified B Corp since 2020, which means we strive for a strong balance between purpose and profit.

About StudyGo

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.

About Squla

Squla, part of Futurewhiz, 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, using gaming elements, attractive UX designs, and current, changing content.

We have ambitious goals and are therefore looking for a medior software developer. Would you like to continue building our beautiful, innovative platform together with us? Then read on!

Your role as medior backend developer

As a backend developer for Team Growth, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services that power marketing and growth initiatives across our platforms. You’ll work in a team of passionate backend and frontend engineers who care deeply about clean code, performance, and user impact, collaborating more broadly with the Marketing, Data Science, and Product teams to deliver impactful features that drive business results.

Specifically, you will:

• Ensure scalability, security, and maintainability across our backend services.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and continuously improve our engineering practices.
• Work on systems that support A/B testing and other experimentation frameworks.
• Design and implement APIs, services, and data pipelines that enable marketing automation and personalization.

Job requirements

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 in software development
• A passion for building scalable, secure and maintainable systems
• Experience working with Python is preferable (or a strong desire to deepen your skills in 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 we offer

• A gross monthly salary of €3800 to €4800 (based on 40 hours, depending on experience)
• 24 vacation days, plus 3 assigned days off and 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 choice of an electric bike 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!

AI information

At Futurewhiz we believe in fully embracing AI in our way of work. 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 backend 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.