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

Your daily responsibilities will be customized to align with your individual talents and professional ambitions, covering both product engineering and foundational infrastructure. Serving as a crucial early hire, you will wield major impact on our macro strategy, system architecture, and product roadmap.

Product Development:

• Design innovative features and enhance existing system functionality through tight collaboration with Paul and Emile
• Actively gather user input and convert these learnings into tangible platform upgrades

Technical Leadership:

• Guarantee the architecture stays robust and highly scalable to effectively support our ongoing expansion
• Consistently iterate on and modernize our AI toolchains to capitalize on the newest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence
• Operate with cutting-edge technologies, focusing primarily on backend infrastructure hosted across Cloudflare and Google Cloud

Past examples of what you could be building:

• Duolingo-inspired daily quiz system engineered to boost student engagement with their academic curriculum
• Complex AI pipelines built to pull visual and textual information from varied document formats, mapping these components into extensive knowledge graphs
• Custom authorization engine designed to manage the expanding complexities tied to diverse institutional configurations

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

Do not be concerned if you lack prior experience with every piece of technology right out of the gate. We have full confidence in your capacity to rapidly upskill and seamlessly adapt to employing new frameworks and tools as our company scales.

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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