We all remember that favourite teacher from school.

You’re thinking of that teacher now, aren’t you? (Mine was Mrs Aspinall)

They connected with you, respected you and gave you the confidence to believe in yourself.

I bet you weren’t thinking of the authoritarian, dictator-type teacher who cared more about rules and the sound of their own voice.

GCSEs are the first major chance for teens to fail badly, potentially making or breaking their confidence for bigger challenges like A-levels, university, and life. 

Most online tutoring websites are disconnected from what engages today’s young adults and how they like to learn, which was something the founder of an education-tech startup wanted to change when she started tutoring in 2020. 

She built the business using the power of social media until 2023, when she launched an e-learning platform to tutor GCSE English differently because it’s student-led, using social media, surveys, and polls to understand what engages them. 

In 2023, they had 4,000 subscribers, and this year, they peaked at 17,000, with around 90% seeing massive improvements in their grades. 

The founder now wants to build AI into the platform, expand into other GCSE subjects, offer A-level tutoring, and create a mobile app with the goal of reaching 150,000 subscribers. 

She’ll need an in-house development team to achieve these goals, of which you’ll be the first member alongside the interim CTO.

The platform works, but you’ll work with external developers to refactor the backend, raise development standards, and implement new ideas.

Most of the work is on the Laravel backend, with some Angular frontend. It’s a monolith, with plans to move to AWS, which will probably lead to using Docker, Terraform, and some DevOps work.

It’s a startup with four employees and punchy growth plans, meaning hard work, lots of responsibility, and a little chaos. So, if you want a steady job with great benefits, predictable work, and corporate politics, no judgment here, but this might not be for you.

Apply if you’re hungry and ambitious and want a company that matches your ambition, giving you unrestricted growth and a chance to contribute to something bigger than yourself.

• VISA Sponsorship – Not Available
• Work Policy – UK-based remote work. 

You’re a mid to senior-level full-stack PHP developer with good Laravel experience and a modern frontend (They use Angular, but React, Vue or Svelte is fine, too)

You’re a solution-driven developer who can look at a problem and assess the possible solutions, choosing the right tools to solve them, so if you’ve used the same tech stack or processes in all your roles, it might not suit you.

You understand startup life and know that you’ll have to figure a lot out for yourself and have a lot of decision-making responsibility on your shoulders.