Backend Engineer | Education + Gamification Startup

Gizmo is a startup on a mission to make learning so easy and fun that anyone can learn anything. We're aiming to help 1 billion people learn by building Duolingo for Anything - a fun gamified way of learning anything!

We’re an early stage well-funded startup that's grown 11X in the last year. We're run by a former Google marketer & Amazon machine learning researcher, a former teacher, and a database specialist who became best friends while studying at Cambridge University. You'd be one of our first hires and an incredibly important part of the team

Requirements

Only apply if:

1. You believe you have exceptional ability ⭐
2. You're happy to work hard (e.g. on weekends) for a chance at glory
3. You are comfortable with Python, Postgresql ‍
4. You are a clear communicator ✅

Nice to have but not essential:

1. You know Typescript and are interested in doing some full-stack work
2. You are interested in the idea of learning efficiently e.g. you know what spaced repetition or active recall is
3. You are interested in gamification and machine learning
4. You know aboutBigQuery, pub/sub, Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ

Benefits

If this is you, you can expect:

1. To build experiences end-to-end that help millions of people learn
2. To learn a lot
3. To be managed by the CTO & work closely with all 3 founders
4. To join us for 3+ days per week in the London office (we are hybrid)
5. A competitive salary + equity