Lead Backend Engineer, simpleclub
€82.7-111.9k
Salary shown is for Germany. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.
Educational application for improving school grades
Be an early applicant
Educational application for improving school grades
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€82.7-111.9k
Salary shown is for Germany. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.
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
- At least 1-2 years of experience as a Lead Engineer and several years as an IC engineer
- Solid experience in Senior roles, including technical solution designs for complex and large problems
- Strong skills and experience in our back-end technologies we use: Node.js, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud functions, Pub/Sub
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, valuing and fostering teamwork not just within the engineering team; knowledge sharing, sense of ownership embracing agile development practices
- Ability to work and lead through change and ambiguity whilst inspiring others
- Experience in developing and maintaining growing/scaling up systems within multi-team setups, that are highly scalable, can be developed fast, are reliable and secure
- Strong computer science and software development fundamentals, including architecture and database design, data structures and algorithms
- Strong knowledge and experience with modern system architectures (cloud based, serverless, messaging systems, noSQL and SQL databases, ..)
- Sound knowledge of the infrastructure architecture and automation (Terraform), large-scale distributed systems and cloud solutions such as Google Cloud Platform
- Experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives. You have a passion for delivering value to users
- Solid knowledge and appreciation of DevOps
What the job involves
- As one of simpleclub’s Lead Engineers, you will play a key role in building a product and team that will impact the way millions of students experience education and learning
- Working closely with our VP of Engineering and our wider technical and product leadership you will help solve for securing the performance, experience and scalability of our product
- Through your ownership with the support of your team, you will lead the design of a target architecture, scaleable, whilst implementing strategies to address and mitigate technical debt
- Lead an agile team, continuously developing simpleclub’s products and platform, like our learning management tools, algorithms and reporting systems. You will be actively developing and maintaining code
- Line manage and support the growth of your team members, via feedback, identifying growth path and opportunities and mentorship
- Working with other leads and engineers to set standards in our architecture, development, delivery and operations to guarantee high velocity and a scalable and reliable system
- Identify, prioritize, scope, plan and resolve technical debt with your team and in coordination with the Product Manager
- Actively participate and co-lead the discussions and setting of the product and technical OKRs for your team to drive impact for our customers
- Work alongside multidisciplinary teams of Product Managers and designers in the research and validation phases
- Reporting To: José Guerra
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
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2023
$3.2m
EARLY VC
Jun 2022
$7.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $14.1m
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 values
- We are purpose-driven - there is one mission that unites all of us: To create a change in education. This purpose-driven mindset is what we look for in new team members
- We are high-performers - we believe in a winner's mindset and are intrinsically motivated to bring out the best of ourselves. We are not satisfied with half-hearted results, but strive for the best
- We love life - work hard, play hard. At simpleclub we live this phrase and love to party, travel to great places and gain exciting experiences. That's not work-life balance. It's a lifestyle
Company HQ
Munich, Grünwald, BY
Articles
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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