We are based in Madrid, Spain; an amazing place to live and work. It
is the core of the Spanish culture, the place where you can savour a
fabulous meal accompanied by some of the best wines of the world, a
place where you can get steeped in our passion, traditions, kindness and
history meanwhile you enjoy flamenco performances, art heritage,
football matches, the perfect place not only to let spring our ideas.
Our Mission:
At SofiaSquare we have a simple mission: “Inspire the world though learning”.
We are just focused on people. Students are able to change the world, thanks to the teachers who love to educate them.
The Job:
We value design skills, programming ability and teamwork. You will be
helping the design processes and the implementation of high-performing
systems that link students with teachers.
During the most part of your time, you will be working on, Php,
MySql, Java. We require experience in our staff but, if you are skilled
on the technologies we use, it is always a plus!
We have recognized a direct lack of a good value proposition in our
industry, and we are not okay with it! That is why we actively seek a
change through our recruitment and culture to address it.
We are searching a great co-worker and a practical person, besides a
determined coder. Passion, dedication and desire to make the difference
is a must!
Our Culture:
Hard work, dedication, passion and the desire of changing the life
of many people are our grounds, as much as fun and strong team spirit
reinforce us!
We trust on our team!
What about you?
• Do you consider yourself an open minded, actively cooperative and team hard-worker?
• Do you believe that the diversity, trust, hands-on approach and
willingness to learn from each other are the key factors of success?
• Do you consider yourself an ambitious person, passionate about both technology and entrepreneurship?
• Do you have a hands-on mentality?
• Do you speak English and Spanish fluently?
• Do you want to be part of a new Edtech Company which will change the world?
• Do you consider yourself a quick thinker and a proactive person?
We are putting all our effort into building a dream team! A true dream team!
Your Responsibilities:
What will be you in charge of?
• To grow the company from a Start Up to a Edtech company.
• To Build a dream IT Team.
• Defining the technology architecture, development environment, software and corresponding licenses for product development.
• Defining the product’s versions plan and design the deliveries deadlines.
• Defining and setting up the agile work methodology to be followed by the team.
• Defining the quality management system.
• Guaranteeing the product availability.
• Defining the prevention plans in order to recover data and reset the service.
• Leading and organizing the technology team.
• Handling relationship with providers.
Skills & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in IT.
• +1 years’ experience.
• Agile Methodologies & Scrum.
• Postgraduate in process improvement and system architecture (servers, data bases, communications).
• Web: PHP, CSS, HTML Javascript, JQuery, AJAX
• Database: SQL, MySQL, Non-relational database (Mongo DB)
• Knowledge of one of these Frameworks: PHP Framework, Symfony2, Zend Framework or similar.
• Basic back-end and server knowledge: Web server configuration, APACHE, Virtual Hosts
• Experience in Integrating Rest APIs
• Knowledge in Version control (git)
• MVC Patterns
Desired Skills:
• Working Proficiency in English
• Test Driven Development
• Valuable technical skills: Knowledge in Bootstrap, Responsive design, SEO and any prior experience in App development
• Ability to work with all levels within the team and across the organization.
• Ability to work in a complex environment.
• Highly motivated, energetic personality, entrepreneurial,
self-motivated mentality; driven at all times to meet and exceed goals.
• Entrepreneurial with a passion to win, high energy, responsive, and results-driven
• self-starter.
• Ability to work in a complex systems environment.
