Backend Developer, Studocu
PHP, Laravel, EdTech
2 days a week in office
Community platform for students to access and exchange educational materials and tools.
Job no longer available
Community platform for students to access and exchange educational materials and tools.
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to excel at their studies by providing the best tools to study more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- A PHP expert with Laravel experience. We are thinking of 3 to 5 years of working experience
- Ability to write high-performance, reusable and fully tested code
- You worked in SCRUM before and are keen to contribute your ideas and solutions that will bring our application to the next level
- Keen to work in a hybrid manner with a minimum of two days a week in our office in Amsterdam (living in or relocating to the Netherlands is a must)
What the job involves
- You will be working with our designers and front-end developers to enable our users all over the world to pay with their preferred payment methods, work on our premium system and provide Studocu’s users with the best possible experience
- We are keen to join hands with someone whose hunger for technology is only matched by a motivation to solve difficult problems fast, efficiently, and with a keen eye for design
- Ship new functionalities every week for a continuous changing product in one of our teams
- Using new techniques such as organising Laravel Applications with Actions
- You will also work with the Product Manager and Scrum Master 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
Application process
- Introductory chat with our recruiter
- Interview with one of our Engineering Managers to learn more about this role
- Coding assignment to check your coding skills and practices
- Final technical interview that will be based on your solution of the coding assignment
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
High quality notes and resources are necessary at every level of education, but at times personal notes can be incomplete or missing details. The founders of Studocu have created a platform that allows students to share notes, resources, and study materials, that holds materials from thousands of universities across the world.
With 60 million users every month accessing the platform, there is undeniable demand for Studocu's services. Much of the company's popularity may be ascribed to its freemium model, which keeps 80% of its content free to access, reserving the top rated 20% for premium account holders. Interestingly, premium accounts do not necessarily require payment, as users can earn 14 days of full premium access for uploading their own study materials.
Studocu has seen impressive investment, which fuelled the expansion of its presence in the US and the wider world - with its resources now covering institutions in over 100 countries. The company's acquisition of Studybees, its German counterpart, will enable it to accelerate growth in the German market, which has been a key area and hence a promising target for securing further success.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
20% female employees
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Aug 2019
$4.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.3m
Company benefits
- Equity scheme in the form of SAR
- Gifts
- Pension scheme
- Referral rewards
- 24 days of paid leave per year
- Option to buy unpaid leave
- Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)
- Annual hackathons
- In-house dutch lessons
- In-house L&D workshops
- Personal L&D budget of €2,500.- per year
- Annual company trip
- Sports subscription with OneFit
- Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road
- 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
Company values
- Be An A+ Student: We believe in sharing knowledge, continuously learning and challenging ourselves.
- Gezellig & One Love: As a family we express ourselves, have fun, embrace feedback, and care about each other.
- Efficiency + Scalability + Data = Success: * Our formula for decision making.
- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Transparent and direct communication creates a strong and trustful team.
- Trailblazers: Our creative and energetic mindset drives innovation.
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Founders
Lucas van den Houten
(CPO)Was previously CTO at the company. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
Marnix Broer
(Chairman of the Board)Advisory Board Member at Brandsolo. Previously co-founded TentamenTrainingen.
Sander Kuijk
(Head of Development)Was a Full-stack Developer at GraphicsGurus. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
People progressing
Laura joined Studocu as an Operations Agent and moved to a Marketing Assistant role after creating the best recruitment task we saw in the process.
Mihai joined Studocu as a Frontend Developer and was promoted to an Engineering Manager after showing how deeply he cares for his team and product development.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Studocu
Suzanne Laan (VP People)
- Studocu is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to building a workplace that is safe and welcoming for everybody.
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