Software Engineer

We partner with universities to run online degree programs, from course production to enrolment support. 520 employees work in product, content, sales and customer success.

Role overview:

Harrowward Education has an opening for a Software Engineer. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Our team is spread across 12 countries. Headquarters is in Amsterdam. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in India, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

What you'll do:

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Contributions to open source projects.

₹33-43 LPA

What we offer:

• Paid parental leave.
• Company laptop.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Home office setup budget.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Harrowward Education B.V..