Studocu was founded on the principle that equal access to study notes reduces inequality between students. Today, we make it easy for more than 45+ million students to share notes every month and use cutting-edge AI learning tools (like Quizzes, AI Chat, and Ask-AI) to help them ace their study goals. The product was a rocket ship from day one and has shown strong product-market fit on every continent with enviable YoY growth, making us a key player in the exploding EdTech space.

Would you like to work on a platform that makes study materials accessible to 45+ million students around the world?

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our teams deliver great value for our business. You’ll bridge the gap between Tech and the business and grow your team members into the next step of their personal journey. As the sparring partner of your dedicated Product Manager, you’ll be responsible for growing a team that can deliver on our roadmaps and OKRs. You’ll also be working closely with our Principal Engineers to ensure we have a maintainable architecture and that we implement it consistently.

The Content Supply team is responsible for the constant stream of documents and study material from/to our website. Amongst other projects, they are working on innovations in processing handwritten notes, creating automated exams, ML to detect course relevance for students, different forms of content streaming, etc. The team is 6 FTE but looking to grow with 2-3 people in the next 12 months.

• 8+ years technical experience in development, PHP, .js, Python;
• 1-2 years experience as a manager;
• Experience with scale (preferably B2C);
• Experience with streaming technology (StepFunctions, RabbitMQ, Airflow, etc.).
  

What you'll be doing here:

• Being hands-on technically, coding and reviewing Pull Requests at times;

• Finding solutions to personal and technical issues of your reports at all levels through mentoring, processes, technologies, or infrastructure;

• Working closely with Product Managers to apply the most relevantly experienced team members to features and tasks;

• Reducing friction for reports to reach high-quality implementations of business features;

• Maintaining a deep understanding of the company architecture, both in terms of people and technologies, and ensuring teams adhere to it;

• Acting as servant-leader with hands-on execution – architecting and building critical parts together with the team while helping them to grow in the company;

• Coaching and guiding Engineers, and getting them to develop themselves into more senior roles;

• Hiring top talent from the market and building well-performing teams.

This recruitment process:

1. Introductory chat with our recruiter.
2. Interview with one of our Engineering Managers or CTO to learn more about this role.
3. Technical interview focusing on technical leadership and system design.
4. Final leadership interview.

• At least 6 years of experience as a Developer/Engineer and 2 years of experience as a leader or manager of a team. Ideally, you have experience working with PHP (Laravel).

• Excellent communication skills which allow you to pick up on verbal and non-verbal cues of your reports and act as a bridge between IT and non-technical colleagues.

• A preference for simplicity and pragmatism rather than complicated and over-engineered solutions.

• A leading-by-example mentality and a preference to work in collaboration.

• You focus on writing clean, maintainable, testable and elegant code.

• Keen to work in a hybrid manner with a three days a week in our office in Amsterdam (living in or relocating to the Netherlands is a must).