Medior Python Backend Developer

scoyo GmbH; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 42,408 - 53,568; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 vacation days

Collective pension and health insurance

€600 annual learning budget

Goodhabitz training access

Healthy office lunches

Team activities

Job summary

scoyo GmbH in Amsterdam is seeking a Medior Backend Developer to join the Primary Education team. This position offers a hybrid work model and focuses on using AI tooling for software development.

You'll work with Python and React, ensuring scalable and secure systems while contributing to architectural discussions. Attractive benefits include vacation days, health insurance, and a professional development budget.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Passion for scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Turn product ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Use AI tooling in the software development process.
• Ensure scalability and security of services.
• Take ownership of team results.

Skills

Python

Scalability

Security

Maintainability

AI tooling

Collaboration

MySQL

AWS

React

Job description

Location: Amsterdam - Hybrid (minimum 50% at the office)

Hours: 36-40 hours per week

Salary: €3800 - €4800 per month

Futurewhiz is a mission‑driven company building Squla, a platform that helps children learn through play. We are looking for a Medior Backend Developer to join the Primary Education team.

Your role and impact

• Turn product ideas into production‑ready solutions, working from goals and context rather than waiting for detailed specifications.
• Use AI tooling as your default way of working: delegate well‑scoped implementation to coding agents, run explorations in parallel, and review the output with strong engineering judgment.
• Work across the stack where it avoids handoffs: backend first, frontend, data and infrastructure when needed.
• Ensure scalability, security and maintainability across our services.
• Shape solutions early together with product, design and education colleagues.
• Take ownership of team results: follow whether the things you ship actually improve learning and business outcomes, and iterate when they don’t.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help improve how we use AI in our engineering practice.

Our stack is:

• Python back‑end
• React front‑end
• AWS

Who are you?

• 3-5 years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Solid experience with Python and a passion for scalable, secure and maintainable systems.
• Your AI use goes beyond autocomplete: you hand well‑scoped tasks to coding agents, review what comes back with a critical eye, and you are building instincts for what to delegate and what to do yourself.
• Comfortable working from goals and ambiguity instead of fully specified tickets.
• Curious beyond the backend: willing to work in React, data or infrastructure when the team needs it.
• Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms is a strong plus.
• A collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from and support your team.

What do we offer?

• 24 vacation days + 3 assigned days off + 1 skipping school day.
• Collective pension and health insurance.
• A €600 annual learning budget for your professional development.
• Unlimited access to external coaches through Inuka Coaching.
• Unlimited access to Goodhabitz training programs for professional and personal growth.
• Lifetime access to StudyGo and Squla accounts.
• Office next to Bijlmer Arena station (with option of a Swapfiets or an OV business card if you live over 7km from the office).
• A MacBook for work.
• Payroll Giving option to contribute to a good cause.
• Healthy lunches at the office, unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks.
• A Culture Crew that organizes fun activities like outings, pub quizzes, ski trips, and laser tag.

Visa and legal information

We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, so we can only consider candidates who already hold a valid work permit for the Netherlands or the EU.

Contact us at [e-mail] if you have any questions about AI.