Medior Backend Developer - Make an impact with a new platform for teachers

Make an impact with a new platform for teachers

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 its architecture to support millions of learners learning smoothly.

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. We are now going to do something completely different! Specifically, we are developing a new (AI) platform focused on helping teachers create lesson and practice materials.

🏰 About Futurewhiz, Squla and StudyGo

Futurewhiz is a B Corp. Our brands – including Squla and StudyGo – help children and teenagers aged 3 to 18 learn and grow at their own level and pace.

🪄 Our new platform

Every teacher wants to inspire their students with strong lessons and effective practice exercises. In reality, however, creating these takes a lot of time and energy. That’s why we put all our expertise and experience to work to support teachers, so they can focus on what truly matters: high-quality education.

Through our work, we contribute to our mission to help every child grow. You will become part of a driven and dedicated team with one clear focus: helping teachers develop lesson presentations, create practice materials, review student work, and everything that comes with it.

🎮 What will you do as our Medior 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.

🌟 Your role and impact

• 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.

🔥 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 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

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

🤖 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