TL;DR

Senior Fullstack Engineer: Building and scaling discovery features including search, recommendations, and content distribution across backend and frontend systems with an accent on AI-driven discovery and scalable distributed systems. Focus on designing and deploying production-ready features that improve content accessibility for millions of students.

Location: Hybrid in Amsterdam, Netherlands with office presence 2 days per week

Company

Studocu provides a platform for 60 million students worldwide to share study resources and offers AI learning tools to enhance education.

What you will do

  • Own discovery features end-to-end across backend and frontend, from design to deployment
  • Build scalable systems for search and recommendations across 100M+ documents
  • Collaborate with product, design, data, SEO, and infrastructure teams to shape solutions and technical decisions
  • Run experiments and prototypes exploring AI-driven discovery, vector search, and recommendation strategies
  • Support the team through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
  • Improve core discovery pages and recommendation engines to increase engagement

Requirements

  • Location: Must be able to work hybrid in Amsterdam with office presence 2 days per week
  • 6+ years experience in backend engineering with Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, or Laravel
  • Hands-on experience with frontend frameworks React or Next.js
  • Experience building scalable distributed and event-driven systems
  • Strong understanding of databases such as MySQL and Postgres
  • AI-native development mindset and experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and Kubernetes

Nice to have

  • Experience with RAG architectures
  • Experience with vector databases like Milvus or Qdrant
  • Knowledge of logging systems such as Sentry, Grafana, OpenSearch

Culture & Benefits

  • Awesome office in central Amsterdam with garden and free lunch
  • Hybrid work policy with 2 days in office per week
  • Work from home setup budget and learning & development budget
  • Free Dutch lessons and travel card depending on residence
  • Pension scheme with company match and SAR equity scheme
  • Company boat trips, open bar Fridays, and OneFit sports discount
  • Choice of Mac or Linux tech and annual company trip