WHO WE ARE?

Schoolyear is an Edtech, fast-growing, bootstrapped start-up based in the Netherlands.

Our team’s mission is to make digital education about education again, not about getting the software to work. Our platform reduces all the complex logistics of digital exams to a matter of clicking a few buttons. Our platform helps to secure Digital Assessments (exams) on Private Devices (Bring Your Own Device), without sacrificing the Privacy of the student.

YOUR CHALLENGES

As one of the key members of our early-stage development team, you design, implement and operate whatever happens when a user clicks that button. Providing an automagical experience in high-stake exam situations to thousands of teachers and students every day is the most challenging and rewarding part of this role. You will work on diverse challenges ranging from building student-friendly UX to low-level anti-cheat mechanisms using C++. Your responsibility is to make the product work end-to-end

Our desktop stack: Electron (MacOS & Win), Typescript/Vue.js, C/C++/Objective-C for native modules, Golang for Windows background service, Playwright for e2e tests.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You prefer building products over just writing code. You rather work on a feature (vertical) than specialize in the backend development.
• You have at least 2 years of desktop development experience.
• 3+ years of experience with C/C++.
• 2+ years of experience with JS (React/Angular/Vue.js, Node.js).
• Product thinking, a clear understanding of the business values.
• Ability to excel in a constantly changing and rapidly growing workplace.
• You possess good written and oral English communication skills.
• You live in or near CEST (Europe/Amsterdam) zone.

Will be a plus:

• You are familiar with Electron.js framework and Chromium.
• Experience with Objective-C.

WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU?

• Immediate and direct influence on the whole product: as one of the early team members, you can make an impact and there’s a lot of room for your input, creativity and growth.
• We build software for education. You are impacting the way students of the future learn.
• We’re lifelong-learning evangelists. We are absolutely open for your ideas in any area of company development. And additionally, you’ll receive €1000 yearly for external education
• Awesome quarterly team outings, our last one was in Prague!
• 25 working days of holidays (can be extended, we’re flexible)
• You can work fully remote and/or at our office in Eindhoven.