We are building the largest platform of educational gaming apps for primary school kids with a disruptive product approach. It’s a talented team, a meaningful product that impacts daily life of kids, parents and teachers, and growing rapidly.
As a key member of our engineering team, you will work with some really experienced and cool tech superstars. Our development team has loads of experience working with successful companies. You will be truly inspired.
Ideal candidates would have:
- Experience in doing Mongo clustering & Glassfish clustering
- Expert knowledge of MySQL
- Experience working with cloud-computing service providers like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Expertise in writing with python
- Familiarity with Git, or any other continuous integration or revision control system
Bonus points:
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
- Recent experience supporting a SaaS platform
- A self-starter who thrives in a fluid, fast-paced, evolving environment
You will:
- Configure amazon VPC (subnets public-private, gateways, vpn)
- Setup backups
- Setup monitoring for databases and web API
- Setup CI for backend and client side
- Manage load testing
- Maintain and update Linux servers + internal products we use (incl jira, confluence and bitbucket)
- Update certificates
- Manage users for internal infrastructure
In a nutshell, Skidos is:
- Providing value: Around half a million kids use one or more of our educational gaming apps to master mathematics, reading and other skills.
- Making an impact: Educational gaming is broken. We’re helping fix it. Already today, because of Skidos, kids are spending more time learning and improving their school skills than playing mindless casual games. And we just started.
- Venture funded: We are backed by one of the largest early stage VC funds in Denmark along with high profile angel investors who have backed global unicorns like Zendesk.
- Growing like superstars: Our apps are used by kids in over 100 countries and growing. Why? Because they love them.
- A solid fun team: Good people who enjoy coming into the office and like to break bread together around 12:00 every day.
Perks and benefits
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Working at
Skidos Labs
Who we are:Skidos is an award winning publisher of children's educational gaming products based in Copenhagen. We are like “Netflix for learning games”. Our library of educational apps help children learn while they play cool games on their mobile devices. We assist parents and teachers to make mathematics fun, reading enjoyable & coding a habit.
We are building the largest platform of educational gaming apps for primary school kids with a disruptive product approach. It’s a talented team, a meaningful product that impacts daily life of kids, parents and teachers, and growing rapidly.In a nutshell, Skidos is:Providing value: Around half a million kids use one or more of our educational gaming apps to master mathematics, reading and other skills.Making an impact: Educational gaming is broken. We’re helping fix it. Already today, because of Skidos, kids are spending more time learning and improving their school skills than playing mindless casual games. And we just started.Venture funded: We are backed by one of the largest early stage VC funds in Denmark along with high profile angel investors who have backed global unicorns like Zendesk.Growing like superstars: Our apps are used by kids in over 100 countries and growing. Why? Because they love them.A solid fun team: Good people who enjoy coming into the office and like to break bread together around 12:00 every day.
