Backend Developer

About the company - 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. And to use gaming elements, attractive UX designs and current, changing content.

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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