Full Stack Engineer, Studocu
+ Equity scheme
2 days a week in office
Educational materials platform for students
Open for applications
Educational materials platform for students
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity scheme
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
- 6+ years’ experience in backend engineering (Node.js / TypeScript and/or PHP / Laravel)
- Hands-on experience with frontend frameworks (React or Next.js)
- Product-focused mindset with a track record of shipping impactful features
- Experience building event-driven systems and scalable distributed systems
- Comfortable working with ambiguous problems and defining technical solutions
- Polyglot mindset and comfort picking up new languages or technologies
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Strong understanding of databases (MySQL, Postgres)
- AI-native development mindset (using LLMs to accelerate development workflows)
- Experience working with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and Kubernetes
- Experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architectures is a plus
- Experience working with vector databases (Milvus, Qdrant) is a nice-to-have
- Knowledge of different logging systems (Sentry, Grafana, OpenSearch) is ideal
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Discovery team and help shape how students find content across the Studocu platform
- In this role, you will own discovery features end-to-end, working across backend systems and frontend experiences that power search, recommendations, and content distribution
- You’ll design scalable systems, run experiments, and build features that directly improve how millions of students access knowledge
- You’ll operate in a highly autonomous environment where engineers are trusted to explore solutions, run technical experiments, and deliver production-ready systems
- Own discovery features end-to-end across backend and frontend, from design to deployment
- Build scalable systems for search and recommendations across 100M+ documents
- Collaborate with product, design, data, SEO, and infrastructure teams to shape solutions and technical decisions
- Run experiments, spikes, and prototypes to explore AI-driven discovery, vector search, and recommendation strategies
- Support the team through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Scale our search platform for large-scale content discovery
- Improving our in-house recommendation engine to surface relevant study materials
- Develop AI-powered features to help students prepare for exams
- Improve core discovery pages to increase engagement and content discoverability
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
$5m
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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