Senior Backend Developer, Studocu
PHP/Laravel, AI Practice, EdTech
+ Equity scheme in the form of SAR
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 in the form of SAR
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
- We’re looking for someone who’s excited about the potential of AI in education, eager to tackle complex problems quickly and thoughtfully, and who cares deeply about delivering polished, user-first experiences
- We are looking for you when you are keen to work with PHP8.1 and know what's good in the latest version of Laravel 10. To be successful in this role, this is the kind of profile we have in mind:
- A PHP expert with Laravel experience
- Ability to write high-performance, reusable and fully tested code
- You worked in SCRUM before
What the job involves
- We are expanding our 12 product teams (90+ back-end, front-end and full-stack developers) and are looking for a talented addition to our AI Practice team, who is a wizard with PHP and has experience with modern Laravel
- You'll work closely with our designers and front-end engineers to shape the future of AI-powered learning at Studocu. From quizzes and flashcards to new AI study experiences, you’ll help build intuitive tools that make it easier for millions of students to learn more effectively
- Ship new functionalities every week for a continuously changing product in one of our teams
- You bring a deep knowledge of design, analysis, development, and testing while exceeding industry standards in terms of high-quality code and security
- Using new techniques such as organising Laravel Applications with Actions
- You will also work with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to refine high-level stories before they are further presented to your team
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers to ensure code quality
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to established coding standards
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
$4.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.5m
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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