acemate is building an AI learning & teaching platform for higher and further education institutions. We have strong traction, secured funding and are entering an exciting growth phase. We're looking for a passionate Full-Stack Developer (Working Student) to drive our product forward and help us scale.

About acemate

Founded in 2024, acemate has quickly become the leading AI learning platform for higher and further education, trusted by top-tier institutions across four countries, including University of Cologne, WHU and the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IHKs).

• Our Mission: Democratizing access to personalized learning. We don’t believe that AI will replace educators. Instead, we empower them to design and deliver personalized learning experiences at scale.
• Our Growth: We've raised pre-seed funding and are growing rapidly. While we focus on higher and further education today, we're already expanding into new regions and markets.
• Our Culture: We’re a young, driven team passionate about tackling the toughest challenges in education. We embrace builder culture and minimize scheduled meetings for ad-hoc discussions and maximized focus on coding and creating.

Meet the Team

• Antong (CEO): BCG, BMW & Antler background, leads business strategy, DJ by night
• Jan (CTO): NLP research, experience from SAP & N26, morning bike commuter
• Paul (CPO): Product expert with startup and education research background, devoted dog dad
• Emile (Fullstack): Ex-founder with product & AI background, ETH graduate, avid runner
• Anas (Fullstack): TypeScript specialist, functional programming enthusiast, chief photography officer
• Rohit (Fullstack): Specialist in modern large-scale web architecture, escape room explorer
• Ammar (Fullstack): Ex‑founder with webdev and blockchain experience, a learning violinist
• Hanna (Marketing): Social media & creative design, Scandinavian sports enthusiast turned Berlin city girl

Tasks

What You'll Do

Depending on your personal strengths and passions, your position will adapt to cover both technical infrastructure and product development. Being an early, foundational member of the team gives you substantial impact on our technical architecture, product direction, and broader strategic roadmap.

Product Development:

• Collaborate directly with Paul and Emile to engineer brand-new functionalities and improve current features
• Gather actionable user insights, turning their direct feedback into meaningful enhancements for the product

Technical Leadership:

• Guarantee that our systems remain highly reliable and scalable alongside the company's ongoing growth
• Consistently optimize our AI toolchains to take full advantage of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence
• Operate on a modern technology base powered primarily by Google Cloud and Cloudflare

Past examples of projects you might tackle:

• Duolingo-inspired daily quiz system engineered to sustain strong student interaction with university course materials
• Complex AI pipelines designed to pull visual and textual data from a variety of documents and map those concepts straight into knowledge graphs
• Custom authorization engine developed to manage the increasing intricacies of access control across various institutional environments

Tech Stack:

• Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
• Database: Supabase (PostgreSQL)
• Infrastructure: Cloudflare (Workers, Pages, Workflows, R2, KV), Google Cloud (Gemini, Cloud Run)
• Tools: Sentry, Langfuse, PostHog, Stripe

Don't be concerned if you lack complete mastery of every technology mentioned right out of the gate. We are highly confident in your capacity to quickly pick up and adopt new tools and frameworks as our work progresses.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• Ownership mindset: You think like a founder and treat the product like it’s yours
• Commitment to excellence: You’re driven to go above and beyond when it matters
• Curiosity and adaptability: Eager to learn new technologies and stay open to innovation
• Balanced AI approach: You knew how to code before Cursor and AI tools, but understand how to leverage them effectively
• Availability: You’re enrolled at a university and available for at least the next 12 months

Benefits

Benefits

• Working in a small but driven team built around performance and learning
• Flexible environment with high degree of autonomy
• Frequent team events and acemate parties! 🥳

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