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.
Job DescriptionYOUR 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.
Qualifications
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Digital exams are expanding rapidly, and large educational institutions face significant long-term decisions about how to securely administer these exams at scale. While current capacity shortage can be solved by purchasing or renting additional computers and hiring IT staff, more and more universities are realising that this approach will ultimately have its limits. During our participation in an Dutch education incubator program, where we spoke with over 100 institutions, we discovered the ultimate approach and solution: a future-proof safe exam workspace. Schoolyear Safe Exam Workspace enables educational institutions to gradually and flexibly integrate a "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) approach with their existing managed computer infrastructure ("Hybrid delivery"). By adopting Schoolyear's Safe Exam Workspace, you address all possible future requirements: 1. Increased exam capacity: BYOD not only solves the majority of the load during peak demands but also means a more efficient allocation of managed computers. 2. Cost savings: By integrating BYOD, universities can avoid continual investment in additional hardware and IT personnel. 3. More flexibility: Move away from being constrained to large hall end-of-period exams. Give your educators the flexibility to test more frequently in any lecture room, without dependence on scheduling or IT support. 4. Support for all assessment types: For a long time, secure browsers could only run websites and PDF files. Schoolyear closes this gap by enabling teachers to configure any restrictions they need: Websites, Documents, and real desktop applications (e.g., Excel, SPSS, Matlab, R, Python). All students, regardless of device, have access to the same applications without installation, and files are never saved on the local machine. With over four years of experience, Schoolyear is successfully used by more than 50 universities.
