About LearnWise AI

LearnWise is a high-growth AI infrastructure platform for higher education, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with hubs in Barcelona and Vilnius. We are the "AI plumbing" for over 100 universities and colleges across 24 countries (including the US, UK, NL, Singapore, and Australia), serving more than 2 million students. Our platform integrates deeply with major learning management systems like D2L Brightspace, Canvas, and Blackboard to automate support and learning workflows at an institutional scale.

We are a team of 40+ dedicated EdTech builders (and growing fast) backed by Emerge Education, the UK’s leading EdTech VC, and strategic angel investors, including former CEOs of major education platforms. We are in a breakout phase: we achieved 5x growth in 2025 and are on track to triple that in 2026. This is a rare opportunity to join a capital-efficient, product-led company that is building the future of education.

You'll work closely with our CTO, CPO, and Engineering team.

Your Team

You’ll join the Frontend and Product Engineering function, working day-to-day with product, design, and other engineers (backend, AI, and platform) to ship user-facing experiences that reach millions of students.

We care about craft and fundamentals: accessibility, performance, maintainable systems, and a strong developer experience. This role has outsized impact because our team is small and execution-heavy.

Why this role exists

We need a senior frontend engineer who can take product ideas from Figma to fast, accessible, production-grade apps on Vercel. This role is about owning the frontend craft end-to-end: building reliable UI systems, keeping performance high as the product grows, and setting quality standards through strong technical leadership.

What you'll do

• Build and ship high-quality frontend experiencesDeliver production features in Next.js, React, and TypeScript (App Router and Pages Router).
• Implement patterns for SSR, SSG, and ISR.
• Build robust client and server component architectures that stay maintainable as the product scales.
• Translate designs into accessible UITurn Figma into responsive, polished UI.
• Champion accessibility standards across components and flows, targeting WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Collaborate closely with design and product to iterate quickly and improve usability.
• Own performance and runtime qualityOptimize data loading and rendering, including streaming and async patterns.
• Reduce bundle size and improve Core Web Vitals.
• Diagnose runtime issues with a strong understanding of the browser runtime (event loop, promises, concurrency).
• Raise the engineering bar through leadershipKeep dependencies lean and healthy, and document key architectural decisions.
• Drive quality through code reviews, mentorship, and pragmatic engineering standards.
• Improve DX through tooling, conventions, and clear component APIs.
• Ship confidently on VercelOwn deploy, preview, and monitoring workflows on Vercel.
• Use analytics, error tracking, and observability signals to drive iteration and reliability.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• You are smart, pragmatic, and love building frontend systems.
• You understand that there are two sides to software engineering and work comfortably in both.
• Strong production experience building production apps with React + Next.js.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript, plus strong working knowledge of React Query.
• Experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).
• Professional fluency in English (written & spoken).

Important, but with some wiggle room:

• Strong working knowledge of Zustand.
• Experience with Mantine (or another popular React component library).
• Strong working knowledge of Tailwind CSS.
• Experience shipping and operating Next.js apps on Vercel.
• Comfortable working in a monorepo setup with Yarn + Yarn Workspaces.
• You have shipped accessible UIs and can work toward WCAG 2.2 AA (WCAG 2.2).
• Strong experience with performance tooling and diagnostics (Web Vitals, Lighthouse, bundle analysis, profiling).
• Experience building and maintaining a design system or component library.
• Strong collaboration instincts with product and design, including iterating on UX details.
• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment with high autonomy.

Nice to have

• An eye for great-looking UI.
• Experience building streaming UIs, chat experiences, or AI-powered applications (real-time, RAG, agents).
• Familiarity with observability tools for frontend troubleshooting (e.g., Sentry, Datadog, LogRocket).
• Experience with edge patterns, middleware, and deployment/runtime constraints in modern Next.js.

How we work

• Open, asynchronous communication: we write things down and share context early.
• Small team, big ownership: you’ll own projects end-to-end.
• Measure > guess: we ship, instrument, and learn.
• Quality and speed: we engineer for both.

Location & schedule

• Full-time role in Lithuania with an opportunity to go to the office.
• Remote is OK
• Flexible schedule and a “no strict 9–5” mentality, with real respect for work–life balance.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Flexible time off
• Home-office budget
• Annual learning and development stipend

Hiring process

1. Intro chat (15–20 min): quick call with our CPO or CTO.
2. Technical deep dive (30–45 min): React + Next.js production discussion (TypeScript, React Query, architecture, performance/accessibility).
3. Practical session (45–60 min): pairing or exercise building/improving a small Next.js + TS feature (often with React Query).
4. Culture/leadership chat (30 min): conversation with a founder/leader to confirm mutual fit.