Amsterdam - Hybrid (minimum 50% at the office)
€3800 - €4800 per month
Futurewhiz is a B Corp
Are you a driven backend developer who wants to make an impact on how children learn? At Futurewhiz, you'll build Squla, the platform that helps more than 160,000 children at home and over half a million in classrooms learn through play, every day. You'll join the Primary Education team and help build the features, experiments, and systems that make learning smarter and more fun. Want to contribute to the future of digital learning? Apply now!
At Futurewhiz, we have one mission that unites us all:
Every day, we create digital learning products that challenge, motivate, and help children aged 3 to 18 develop.
About Futurewhiz, Squla and StudyGo
For over 16 years, Futurewhiz has been the market leader in EdTech in the Netherlands. Our brands, including Squla and StudyGo, help children and teenagers aged 3 to 18 learn and grow at their own level and pace. Our mission is clear: "Empowering every child to grow." We've been a certified B Corp since 2020, which means we strive for a strong balance between purpose and profit.
Squla is a popular educational brand among (primary school) children, parents and teachers. Every day, more than 160,000 children at home and more than half a million children play the best games and quizzes at school in the classroom. Our mission? Helping children progress through play! We do this by staying close to children's experiences, and by using gaming elements, attractive UX designs and current, changing content.
StudyGo (formerly WRTS) is the go-to online platform for secondary school students to prepare for exams. From vocabulary practice and assignments to chatting with tutors and attending group lessons, we offer a comprehensive toolkit to help students succeed. With over 650,000 annual users, StudyGo has become one of the key digital platforms for secondary education.
What will you do as our Medior Developer?
You'll join the Primary Education team working on Squla. You'll work in a small multidisciplinary team where product, design, engineering, education and marketing shape solutions together and share responsibility for the results, not just the roadmap. We work in short cycles: six weeks of focused execution, then a week to reflect, learn and replan.
We're rethinking how we build software around AI. Coding agents are taking on a growing share of the implementation work, and we're looking for engineers who already work that way personally and want to help push the team further. You're a backend developer at heart, but you won't stop at the backend: as agents remove friction, picking up frontend, data or deployment work becomes the normal way to keep the team moving.
Your role and impact
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Turn product ideas into production-ready solutions, working from goals and context rather than waiting for detailed specifications
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Use AI tooling as your default way of working: delegate well-scoped implementation to coding agents, run explorations in parallel, and review the output with strong engineering judgment
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Work across the stack where it avoids handoffs: backend first, frontend, data and infrastructure when needed
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Ensure scalability, security and maintainability across our services
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Shape solutions early together with product, design and education colleagues
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Take ownership of team results: follow whether the things you ship actually improve learning and business outcomes, and iterate when they don't
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Contribute to architectural discussions and help improve how we use AI in our engineering practice
Our stack is:
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Python back-end
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React front-end
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AWS
Who are you?
We're looking for a medior backend developer who can think strategically and act practically. You should also resonate with the following qualities:
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3-5 years of experience building and shipping production software
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Solid experience with Python and a passion for scalable, secure and maintainable systems
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Your AI use goes beyond autocomplete: you hand well-scoped tasks to coding agents, review what comes back with a critical eye, and you're building instincts for what to delegate and what to do yourself
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Comfortable working from goals and ambiguity instead of fully specified tickets
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Curious beyond the backend: willing to work in React, data or infrastructure when the team needs it
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Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL
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Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms is a strong plus
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A collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from and support your team
What do we offer?
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24 vacation days + 3 assigned days off + 1 skipping school day
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Collective pension and health insurance
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A €600 annual learning budget for your professional development
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Unlimited access to external coaches through Inuka Coaching
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Unlimited access to Goodhabitz training programs for professional and personal growth
Additionally:
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Lifetime access to StudyGo and Squla accounts
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Office next to Bijlmer Arena station (with the possibility of getting a Swapfiets or an OV business card if you live over 7km from the office)
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A MacBook for work
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Payroll Giving option to contribute to a good cause
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Healthy lunches at the office, unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks
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A Culture Crew that organizes fun activities like outings, pub quizzes, ski trips, and laser tag
Who are we?
We're a passionate and diverse team, brought together by a shared mission: helping children thrive in their learning journey, and empowering them to grow through personalised education.
Our culture is welcoming and authentic. We believe the best work happens when people can be themselves. Whether you're into book clubs, monthly socials, movie nights, cake-baking contests, Mario Kart showdowns, or ski trips, you'll find a community that feels like home. Here at Futurewhiz, there's something for everyone, and we can't wait to welcome you!
Our platforms are for everyone, and the same applies to our workplace.
The beauty lies in the diverse backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives of our people. This diversity enables us to help all young learners realize their educational potential, regardless of who they are, or who we are. At Futurewhiz, we actively embrace each other's differences, fostering an authentic environment where people can truly be themselves. This makes it easier for others to do the same. We're committed to nurturing a diverse and inclusive culture that starts here in our office and extends across all our platforms, and everyone is welcome on this journey.
Our use of AI
At Futurewhiz, we believe in fully embracing AI in our way of working.
AI is transforming our roles, and we'll shape this future together. We use AI to accelerate our mission: to move faster, go further, and improve our support to children, parents, and teachers.
Do you have any questions about AI and our use of it in the recruitment process? Send us a message to [email protected]
We'd love to hear from you, even if you don't check every box! If you're excited about the role, just be yourself and go for it. We value diverse perspectives and are always curious to learn what makes you unique.
A quick tip: above all, just be yourself! We truly celebrate diversity in all our colleagues and are genuinely excited to hear your unique perspective.
Just a small heads-up regarding logistics: we aren't able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, so we can only consider lovely candidates who already hold a valid work permit for the Netherlands or the EU.
Ready to join us? Simply upload your CV and a short motivation via the application button, and we'll be in touch soon. We can't wait to meet you!
