Chief Technology Officer

At Futurewhiz, we exist to empower every child to grow. Through our learning platforms, Squla, StudyGo, and Scoyo, we support children from early learning through secondary education. Helping them to learn and build confidence through personalised, digital learning experiences.

We're looking for a mission-driven, strategic, and people-skilled Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who combines deep technical expertise with the natural ability to coach and empower teams.

Our goal? To lead the transformation of learning by combining ethical, trusted AI with the creativity and expertise of our teams and deliver real, measurable impact to children and families across Europe.

Futurewhiz has been a market leader in EdTech in the Netherlands for 15 years. We create digital learning products that challenge, motivate, and nurture children aged 3 to 18. Our brands, including Squla Junior, Squla, and StudyGo, help children and young adults aged 3 to 18 learn at their own pace. As a certified B Corp since 2020, we balance purpose with profit.

Squla offers educational play and interactive quizzes for children from preschool to grade 8, boosting confidence and independence while aligning closely with the Dutch curriculum.

StudyGo supports secondary school students preparing for tests, offering exercises, (AI)tutoring, and online lessons.

With over 650,000 users annually, StudyGo is a trusted resource in secondary education.

Want to know more about our brands? Check out our website here: https://www.futurewhiz.com/

Your Impact

As CTO and member of the Management Team (CEO, CPO, CCO, CFO, CTO), you’ll take ownership of our technology strategy, architecture, and culture across a portfolio of platforms. This is a multi-layered environment. With new builds, mature platforms, and legacy systems. And your leadership will be crucial to delivering:

• An AI-first transformation across product and engineering

• A modern, scalable tech foundation that supports long-term growth and innovation.

You will lead a strong engineering team (25+ FTE), with 3 direct reports (Engineering Leads). You’ll also work closely with Product, Marketing, and Support. 

Key Responsibilities

Set strategic tech vision

• Own and communicate a clear, long-term technology vision aligned with Futurewhiz's strategy, mission, and AI ambitions

• Define and drive a company-wide technology roadmap that enables platform scalability, operational efficiency, and security

• Champion and enable the transition to AI-first products and AI-enabled development
  

Lead architecture & execution

• Guide tech optimalisation, including decisions regarding tech stack 

• Ensure robust DevOps, security, and infrastructure practices that support multi-brand operations
  

Build talent & culture

• Lead and mentor the engineering organization on the hard and soft skills

• Create a culture of openness, learning, high performance, and ethical AI adoption

• Drive AI capability development across engineering and work closely with other departments to build a company-wide AI fluency
  

Collaborate at executive level

• Be a full strategic peer in the MT, taking active part in Futurewhiz decisions alongside the CPO, CCO, CFO and CEO.

• Represent technology to external stakeholders, including partners, investors, and AI/EdTech ecosystems
  
  

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, Ruby on Rails

• Frontend: VueJS, ReactJS, Unity

• Databases: MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch

• AI/ML to automate and personalize learning

• CI/CD: Fully automated pipelines

• Hosting: AWS (phasing out Google Cloud)

Microservices powering our multi-brand ecosystem

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ in senior technology leadership

• Proven ability to scale teams, systems, and architecture in fast-growing product/platform environments

• Experience delivering a technology roadmap that aligns with business goals

• Strong expertise in architecture, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), and security at scale

• Familiar with microservices and continuous delivery

• Skilled at leading inclusive, high-performing teams

• Strong grasp of AI trends and engineering applications

• Excellent communicator, able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in EdTech industry

• Experience managing teams across multiple platform maturity stages (e.g. legacy, growth, startup)
  

Our perks

• Office near Bijlmer Arena

• 26 vacation days + an additional “spijbeldag” (skipping-school day)

• MacBook for all your work

• Regular team outings and other fun activities with your colleagues

• A healthy and daily arranged lunch at the office

• Unlimited access to Goodhabbitz for online courses and training for personal and professional development

• Pingpong battles encouraged

• Great coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks always available

• Lifetime access to StudyGo & Squla

• 1st class OV card if you live outside Amsterdam

• Unlimited access to external, qualified coaches through Inuka Coaching

Our platforms are for everyone, and so is our workplace.

The beauty lies in our people’s different backgrounds, ideas, experiences and perspectives. It is this which enables us to help all of our young people fulfil their educational potential no matter who they are and no matter who we are. Together at Futurewhiz, we actively embrace each other’s differences, which translates into an authentic environment where people bring their unique selves to work, making it easy for others to do the same. We are continuing to foster a diverse and inclusive culture which begins in our office, and extends across our platforms - everyone is welcome on that journey!