As a Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of our software codebase. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that Wooclap deliver a robust and scalable solution for our users.

🚀Responsibilities

• Build, scale, maintain, and continuously optimize our Node-based REST API and packages that directly impact our customers

• Work with 3rd party APIs or services to build our integrations with other tools to provide the best experience to our customers

• Monitor reliability and performance of our servers through dashboards and tools to maximize uptime and availability

• Work with Amazon web services such as S3, Cloudwatch and Lambda to build scalable solutions

• Create automation tooling to improve our CI/CD pipeline

• Scope and break down complex technical features

• Dig into bugs and feature requests

• Assist the customer success team to help our customers and answer technical questions our customers might have

• Work and collaborate with other engineering and product teams to help them deliver value to customers in new and exciting ways

• Share your knowledge and learn during one-on-one sessions or with lightning talks with other teammates, review code written by teammates or other teams

• Ship new features regularly to our users, while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership

🤹About you

• You are a skilled programmer. You design scalable, well-architected features while delivering results. Our tech stack includes Node.js (Express), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, and some Docker.

• You’re security-minded. You prioritize customer data security by following best practices like the OWASP Top Ten.

• You’re a team player. Collaboration is key—you help others grow, work with cross-functional teams, and communicate complex ideas clearly.

• You solve problems. You identify issues and resolve them through code or teamwork, breaking down challenges into manageable steps and seeking help when needed.

• You want to do what’s best for users. You consider user impact when building features, aligning with Wooclap’s mission to positively influence global education.

• You care about code quality. You emphasize testing, documentation, and automation while managing technical debt strategically to maintain product robustness.

• You love technologies, but you’re pragmatic. You see tools and languages as means to an end, balancing speed, craft, and business goals to ship valuable, simple features efficiently.

📦 Package

• Location - Brussels (remote allowed for this position)

• Full-time position

• Compensation commensurate with experience

• 8€ Meal Vouchers (Pluxee)

• 100€ Eco Vouchers (Pluxee)

• Full medical insurance (Alan)

• Hybrid Working Policy with Homeworking fees

• MacBook Air and iPhone

• Mobility Budget

• Reimbursement of your Phone Subscription up to 50€

• 10 days extras paid holidays

• Woocredits (150€/year) to buy learning materials

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven experience as a Back-End Developer, with a focus on SaaS solutions.

• Proficiency in server-side languages such as NodeJS, PHP, .NET, Java or Ruby.

• Experience with NoSQL databases (relational database knowledge are also appreciated)

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.

• Knowledge of security best practices and data protection.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Proficient in French and English

• Interest in software development best practices, including SOLID principles and clean code.

• Experience with testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development (TDD).

• Commitment to writing well-documented, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (e.g., Git) and peer code review processes.

The following skills are an advantage

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

• ☎️ 30’ Screening interview with Julien, Engineering Manager

• 📈 90’ Tech Case with 2 members of the Tech Team

  • The tech case will be completed at home.

  • The 90 minutes will be used to review the test together.

• 🤝 45’ Panel interview with your future colleagues

• 💻 30’ interview with Baudouin, CEO

• 🎬 30’ Closing interview with Anabela, our Head of People