Senior React Native Developer, Studocu
EdTech
2-5 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
2-5 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
- At least 5 years in full-time software development, of which 2+ years of experience in shipping React Native apps
- Experience with Typescript and React Native
- Ability to write high-performance, reusable, and fully tested code
- Experience in implementation and improvement of mobile accessibility
- Experience in transforming high-level business requirements into technical specifications
- Experience with the development of Android and/or iOS applications is a plus
- You have excellent English written and verbal communication skills and can confidently discuss design decisions at all levels
What the job involves
- We are expanding our Mobile App team to be able to bring all the web features our students already love to their favorite mobile devices
- In this role, you’ll collaborate with our Mobile team to plan, build, scale and maintain our mobile app
- That means participating in achieving our mobile expansion roadmap while maintaining high performance, robustness and excellence in code quality
- You won’t be just coding and reviewing code every day
- You’ll also be a part of our processes that help us shape the product experience and ultimately turn ideas into reality through your engineering skills
- We work in two-week sprints where all developers collaborate with the Product Trio (Product Manager, Designer & Engineering Manager) to design and verify specifications whenever possible
- Using Typescript in a React Native application with React Query
- Shipping new functionalities bi-weekly for a continuously changing product
- Contributing your knowledge to the design, analysis, development and testing of mobile applications
- Communicating with RESTful APIs to interact with our backend
- Working with a Product Manager and Engineering Manager to refine high-level stories before they are presented to your team
- Participating in code reviews and providing feedback to other developers to ensure code quality
- Writing clean, efficient, tested and maintainable code that adheres to established coding standards
Application process
- 1. Call with our recruiter, Jakub - 30 minutes
- 2. Call with your future Engineering Manager, Rafael - 45 minutes
- 3. Coding assignment to do at home
- 4. Final technical interview with your future teammates - up to 120 minutes
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: $56.7m
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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