Backend Engineer, simpleclub
Educational application for improving school grades
Job no longer available
Educational application for improving school grades
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating and giving access to great learning content to every student.
Role
Who you are
- Solid Software development experience. You have 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong Computer Science and Software Development fundamentals. You hold a relevant Degree or have proven understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
- Product development experience. You have participated in product development efforts and initiatives from a technical perspective
- Strong background in a range of Backend technologies. You should be familiar with Node.js, GCP, Google Cloud functions and Pub/Sub
- Passion. You are highly passionate about developing high performing, high quality, efficient systems and understanding user problems to find solutions
- Comfortable in fast-paced environments. Welcoming and leading through change and high ambiguity
- Outstanding communication skills. You are a strong communicator and you are able to contextualize your ideas and communicate them to small or bigger audiences
- A team player. You bring excellent interpersonal skills, valuing collaboration, knowledge sharing and sense of ownership
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer you'll be developing new product functionalities, such as our learning and internal tools which make simpleclub special
- Dive into our agile, cross-functional team and play a pivotal role in shaping and refining our products and platform
- Take the lead in designing and implementing innovative features that resonate with our users
- Engage in our team’s dynamic processes. Collaborate, share insights, and help elevate our engineering practices and backend architecture
- Your contributions go beyond code. Directly shape the way content is crafted and consumed by our users
Application process
- Initial Review
- Call with a Recruiter
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Take Home Assignment (Code Challenge)
- Presentation (Case Study)
- Founders Call
- Hired
Our take
Online "edu-tainment" materials are commonly used to supplement the education of children, often existing in the form of games and quizzes. Whilst these are useful for memorizing the answers to questions and assessing knowledge, their focus on multiple choice answers leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to explaining and understanding harder-to-grasp concepts.
Simpleclub offers a personalized educational app to supplement students’ education, with the aim of helping users understand school material quicker and pass exams with better grades. The application includes thousands of videos, animations, and in-depth explanations for all major study areas in addition to mock exams and analytics to identify areas of improvement.
The company's app stands out from other edutainment providers for its focus on providing a deeper understanding, as well as its approach that matches school syllabuses and mock exams over more casual learning. Following promising fundraising, Simpleclub is in a good place to maintain its momentum.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2023
$3.5m
EARLY VC
Jun 2022
$8.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $15.6m
Company benefits
- Remote work - work where you want
- No hours - work when you want.
- Flexible vacation - go on vacation when you want
- Team-Events
- A great culture
- Further education
- Participate in a meaningful mission
- Open communication
- Training budget via Sunlight
Company HQ
Munich, Grünwald, BY
Leadership
Alexander Giesecke
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Graduate of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Co-founded simpleclub in 2015.
Nicolai Schork
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Graduated with a BSc in Media Informatics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Co-founded simpleclub in 2015.
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