Senior Frontend Developer, Studocu
TypeScript, React, EdTech
2+ days a week in office
Educational materials platform for students
Job no longer available
Educational materials platform for students
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 React and TypeScript expert
- Ability to write clean, performant, reusable code
- Solid English communication skills, both written and verbal
- A team player who thrives on collaboration
- 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)
Desirable
- Experience with real-time services
- ReduxToolkit
- AWS experience
- Proficiency with PHP / Laravel
What the job involves
- We are expanding our 10 SCRUM teams (70+ back-end, front-end and full-stack developers) and are looking for a talented addition to our Groups team, who is a wizard with Typescript and has experience with modern React
- The Group's team mission is to allow students to connect and help each other, driving engagement and bringing new users to use study groups and our content
- This is facilitated through a chat where users can connect with their course peers and share the best study materials with each other
- You will be working with our designers and back-end developers to create responsive pages that 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
- You will collaborate closely with your team which consists of an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager, a Designer, a Data Scientist, a QA Engineer and other developers to come up with user-oriented solutions
- You will be involved in the full development cycle from refinement, through implementation, to code review
- You will be responsible for leading certain projects tied to our Objective Key Results and frontend migration projects of the team
- You will work in two-week sprints, and participate in standups, refinements and retros
- You will have the opportunity to share and apply your knowledge and expertise on technical topics while coaching other developers and presenting at our Learning & Development talks
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
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. In 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam filed a lawsuit against the company which will be interesting to follow, as it surrounds whether Studocu should have to proactively screen materials for copyright breaches, rather than its current report/takedown approach.
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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 of the Board)Advisory Board Member at Brandsolo. Previously co-founded TentamenTrainingen.
Sander Kuijk
(Co-Founder & DevOps)Was a Full-stack Developer at GraphicsGurus. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
Lucas van den Houten
(Co-Founder & CPO)Was previously CTO at the company. Studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University.
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