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simpleclub

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

☁️ SaaS

💰 Series A on 2022-06

Education • B2C • SaaS

simpleclub is a popular learning app that assists students in various subjects, offering video explanations, summaries, and practice exercises. With over 2 million monthly users, it aims to reduce stress and improve academic performance through personalized learning plans and AI tutoring features. The app supports educational growth from primary education through to preparation for final exams, making it a vital resource for students in school and vocational training.

📋 Description

• Lead an ai-native, cross-functional team building simpleclub's products and platform: onboarding & discovery, learning management tools and the AI assistant transforming trainers' day-to-day work. You'll stay hands-on: writing and maintaining code, and contributing actively to the innovation and solutioning. • Line-manage and grow your team through feedback, clear growth paths, and mentorship. • Set standards with other leads and engineers across architecture, development, delivery and operations, for high velocity and a scalable, reliable system. • Identify, scope, prioritize and resolve technical debt with your team and your Product Manager. • Co-lead the product and technical OKRs for your team, driving measurable impact for customers. • Partner with Product Managers and designers through research and validation, as a true product trio.

🎯 Requirements

• 1-2+ years leading engineering teams, on top of several years as an IC Product Engineer. • A track record of designing technical solutions for complex, large-scale problems in senior roles. • A history of innovating and shipping customer-valued solutions, going beyond just developing tickets. • You use AI coding tools daily and can lead a team through the shift. You understand how AI already changes engineering roles and delivery, you're continuously learning, and you're ready to set the standard for agentic tooling (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) on your team. • Strong computer science and software fundamentals: architecture and database design, data structures, and algorithms. • Experience in building and scaling systems in multi-team setups, highly scalable, fast to develop, reliable and secure. • High sense of ownership and accountability for the domains your team owns and its mission. • Strong with modern system architectures: cloud-based, serverless, messaging systems, NoSQL and SQL databases. • Strong with our backend stack: Node.js, TypeScript, GCP, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub. • Excellent, async-first communication. You foster teamwork and knowledge sharing beyond engineering, and lead through change and ambiguity while inspiring others. • **Not a Must, but Nice to have:** • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), large-scale distributed systems, and GCP at scale. • Solid grounding in and appreciation of DevOps. • Good knowledge of frontend engineering and a drive for cross-functional development. • Experience leading multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives. • Experience in product trios or similar setups where engineers shape the product, not just build what's specced.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid holidays • Work from anywhere • Team events • A great culture • Perk Budget • Join a purposeful mission