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.

SQL

GCP

Node.js

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

Educational application for improving school grades

Open for applications

Educational application for improving school grades

101-200 employees

B2CB2BEducationAnalyticsLearningSaaSKidsVideo

Open for applications

€82.7-111.9k

Salary shown is for Germany. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.

SQL

GCP

Node.js

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

101-200 employees

B2CB2BEducationAnalyticsLearningSaaSKidsVideo

Company mission

To disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating and giving access to great learning content to every student.

Job

Company

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

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jul 2023

$3.6m

EARLY VC

Jun 2022

$8.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $16m

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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