Software Developer (Working Student)

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

• Specialist in modern large-scale web architecture, escape room explorer

Tasks

What You'll Do

Your daily work will span product engineering and core infrastructure, customized to fit your career goals and strengths. Because you're joining the team early, you'll play a major role in shaping our product roadmap, overall system architecture, and broader strategy.

Product Development:

• Partner with Paul and Emile to design new features and upgrade our existing systems

• Gather user feedback directly and turn those insights into tangible platform improvements

Technical Leadership:

• Keep our core architecture scalable and resilient as our user base continues to grow

• Maintain and iterate on our AI toolchains so we're always leveraging the newest developments in artificial intelligence

• Focus heavily on backend engineering using modern technology, primarily deploying on Google Cloud and Cloudflare

Past examples of what you could be building:

• Duolingo-inspired daily quiz system built to drive better student engagement with course material
• Complex AI pipelines designed to pull visual and text data out of varied documents, organizing them into deep knowledge graphs
• Custom authorization engine engineered to manage the expanding complexity of different 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 stress if you haven't used every piece of our stack yet. We trust that you can pick things up quickly and adapt to new frameworks or tools as the 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! 🥳