Data Engineer, Studocu
+ Look to the future with our SAR equity scheme
2 days a week in office (Keizersgracht, NL)
Educational materials platform for students
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Educational materials platform for students
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Look to the future with our SAR equity scheme
2 days a week in office (Keizersgracht, NL)
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
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering
- Proficient in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python, Java, Scala etc)
- Knowledge of Data Orchestration using tools like Airflow e.t.c
- Understanding the ELT paradigm and using tools such as DBT
- Understanding of Cloud technologies, preferably AWS
- Understand distributed computing systems technologies especially using Spark
- Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) and using tools such as Terraform
- Understand monitoring tools such as Grafana, Metabase
- Team-player: you are able to collaborate effectively with your current and cross functional team
- Great communicator: you are able to communicate technical problems to a technical and non-technical audience
- Curious and resilient: you will often be out of your comfort zone since we are dealing with a broad range of challenges
- You’re currently a resident in the Netherlands, a commutable distance from our office in Amsterdam
- You’re someone who will enjoy coming to our office at least twice per week!
What the job involves
- Data is one of the key ingredients to our success
- Our founders are engineers and everyone on the team uses our terabytes of data to inform daily decision-making
- We’re in rapid growth mode, investing heavily in data to scale from descriptive/diagnostic to predictive/prescriptive analytics and machine learning
- We need serious talent to help us get there
- The data engineering function at Studocu is responsible for designing, building and maintaining the data and analytics infrastructure that supports all the cross-functional product teams and the (machine learning) algorithms that power our platform
- Our data stack is hosted in AWS and has the following main components: Airflow, Redshift, dbt, ECS(Fargate), Kubernetes, Spark and Metabase (our BI tool). We use Terraform for infrastructure configuration and management
- Supporting DataOps: In this role, you'll actively support DataOps by optimizing and maintaining data pipelines, automating key processes, monitoring and troubleshooting data systems, collaborating with DevOps, and contributing to comprehensive documentation efforts
- Data Engineering IC: You'll work closely with your team on diverse data engineering projects, including building and refining data pipelines, resolving pipeline incidents, and integrating new external data sources through custom APIs, pipelines
- Sense of Ownership: You'll be encouraged to take initiative within the data engineering space and will have opportunities to gradually assume ownership of specific processes as you grow within the role
- Team Collaboration: Data Engineering serves as the foundation for other teams, we expect to collaborate with teams outside of the data function and provide support to their ad hoc requirements
- In summary, this is a 100% hands-on role focused on Software and engineering, with a pathway to owning technical processes within the team over time
- What you’ll bring to the team:
- As a (Medior) Data Engineer, you'll play a vital role in our growing data engineering team, contributing directly to mission-critical applications
- You'll collaborate closely with our Senior Data Engineer, Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Managers, and content/operations specialists to drive impactful data initiatives
- This role offers the opportunity to work on independent projects, apply your skills in hands-on data engineering, and actively contribute within a dynamic, cross-functional team environment
Our take
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 now holds materials from universities across the world.
With millions of 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 85% of its content free to access. The other 15% can be accessed by students who either upload their own study materials or pay a fee.
Studocu has seen impressive investment which has enabled it to expand substantially. It also acquired Studybees, its German counterpart, to support this expansion. Notably in 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam filed a lawsuit against the company surrounding whether Studocu should have to proactively screen materials for copyright breaches, rather than its report/takedown approach. There do not appear to be any recent developments to this case.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Aug 2019
$4.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.8m
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 HQ
Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Reynald Fasciaux
(CEO)Has been with the company for five years, first as COO then CEO. Before that, they were Head of Product Operations (EMEA) at ofo and Head of Customer Insights (EMEA) at Uber.
Marnix Broer
(Co-Founder & Chair)Was previously COO then CEO of the company. Advisory Board Member at Brandsolo. Previously co-founded TentamenTrainingen.
Sander Kuijk
(Co-Founder)Former CTO of the company. Was a Full-stack Developer at GraphicsGurus. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
Lucas van den Houten
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Was previously CTO then CPO at the company. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
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