What is Studentpulse?

Have you ever attended an educational institution, where something could have been executed better by the institution - classes, social environment, activities, prospects? Or have you ever needed help from the teachers, study counselor or management - but did not really get it (or sought it out)?.

Then you are not unique! But you could be.

At StudentPulse, we work every day to revolutionize the educational sector through our platform. It brings student needs, opinions, and well-being to the center of every educational institution, and right now we are looking for that one coworker. The one who can ensure that hundreds of thousands of students become successful, so that our customers become successful.

The role

As our new Backend Software Engineer at StudentPulse, you will be an integral part of our our Engineering team. You will work across range of products with a focus on main application layer. 

The role is remote based with an option to work from Aalborg HQ in Denmark. If you choose to work remotely, we expect to see you in person every ~2 months. 

Start date - ASAP. 

How will your usual day look like?

Every morning you will start by reviewing your colleagues pull request and checkin on the progress on your work. After that you will have a brief catchup with tech team where you will discuss progress, any potential blockers, any pair programming sessions and of course listen to few bad jokes along the way 🤓 After that you will be able to work independently without interruptions (we try to keep meetings to a minimum).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Planning and participating in product lifecycle from ideation phase to release
• Collaborate with product & engineering team. You can read about our Engineering culture in Notion
• Implementing new and maintaining current features in across products
• Constantly improve, clean up, update and automate existing codebase
• Improve documentation in our inner documentation portal
• Onboard and mentor other developers

Our current backend stack:

• Laravel 10 (we upgrade Laravel versions continuously)
• PHP 8.2 (we upgrade PHP versions continuously)
• Mysql
• Redis
• Ably

We are looking for you if:

• You have worked in high paced work environment before. We are still in the process of finding what is the best and efficient way of doing things
• You have solid work experience with PHP/Laravel
• You are familiar with SOLID principles
• You unit test your code.
• You have experience on AWS or similar cloud infrastructure solutions
• You have understanding of front-end technologies such as Vue, Vite, Typescript
• You have experience working with SQL databases
• N+1 problem is not just a mathematical equation for you.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Your background

 In a (well-established) startup, one of the key points for success is to have the right dynamic and the right drive in the team. We have each others’ back, and we have fun when we are at work - both with coworkers and with our customers.

With that said: You do not have to be able to say yes to every point on the following list, but the more the merrier:

• Devoted: It hurts you when it hurts the customers
• Proactive: You do not just sit and wait for improvement, you actively take initiative and improve it
• Caring: You have an interest in your fellow students, perhaps as a member of the student council
• Brave: You do not hesitate and take ownership of your work

If you believe you have what it takes to excel as a backend engineer at StudentPulse or have additional questions and want to have a chat, we’d love to hear from you 😊