Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Software Engineer to join our Platform Operations Team.

Studyportals headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We offer a hybrid working environment.

About Studyportals

We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts.

With forty different nationalities among the 200+ people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more?

Why are we searching for you?

To help as many students as possible, we need to build and improve our functionality to grow significantly in users and conversion through technical excellence and a state-of-the-art platform. At Studyportals, the Platform Operations Team main mission is to speed up and stabilize the development process by providing tooling and services to teams and business to support their processes. Basically, allowing everyone to ship their changes fast, controlled, and guarantee stable (development) environments. You will help others to ship faster, with better tooling, monitoring solutions, and more grip on quality.

We value initiative greatly as we know we are in it together!

What are your three main goals?

• Optimizing platform systems to make them faster, more efficient, and more secure, while keeping a close eye on cost of maintenance and return on investments.
• Proactively help define and implement a department-wide Technical Innovation strategy.
• Collaborate with, and support cross-functional teams in building scalable, top-notch platform improvements, services, and tooling via standardized solutions to improve time to market.

What does your team look like?

The Product Engineering department consists of 35 people. You will join an existing team of four members. – two Software Engineers, and two Dev-ops Engineers. Together you work to support the product development teams, improve, and maintain our infrastructure, compliancy standards and the CI / CD process. You will play an important role in further developing our infrastructure using AWS and other services. Your responsibilities range from working at the core of our platform to offering top notch support. You work on a huge variety of topics and projects.

You report to our Software Development Manager, Stefan. He started as a developer at Studyportals a long time ago and knows his way around the systems. His main responsibility is to make sure you can do your work in the best possible way, taking away impediments, driving technical innovation, and making sure you can be the best version of yourself.

What Tech Stack do we use?

The technology behind Studyportals’ platforms is based on PHP, Typescript, Node / NPM, Docker and AWS. Virtually, all our systems have been developed in-house and are following modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. In parallel, we are scaling up our infrastructure, moving towards SOC2 compliance.

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