Working Student Software Engineer (Flutter) (mfd)

Maple Tales builds reading and language-learning apps that real schools use every day. A Flutter-based reading app for elementary students a teacher dashboard and a white-label language-learning platform running under several school brands. Were a small team so this isnt a shadowing role: youll ship real fixes and features into production apps work directly with the founders and see your work reach classrooms within days not sprints.

• Ship features and fixes across our Flutter apps including our student reading app language-learning app and teacher dashboard on both mobile and web.
• Maintain and extend our white-label language-learning codebase that powers several branded language schools.
• Work directly with Firebase from Firestore data and Authentication flows to Hosting deploys and Remote Config.
• Help us build a real CI/CD deployment pipeline. We already lint and test in GitLab CI. Deployment is still manual today and we want you to help us change that.
• Test across browsers devices and branded instances to catch inconsistencies before our schools do.
• Review code pair with the team on harder bugs and contribute to technical decisions.
• Help us understand how students actually use Maple Tales. Instrument new features analyze user journeys and turn what we learn into product improvements.
• Prototype new reading and language-learning experiences and help turn the promising ones into production features.
• Improve our automated testing and monitoring so we catch regressions before our students and schools do.
• Build reusable components and internal tooling that make it faster to ship features across our apps and white-label brands.

• Enrolled student in Computer Science (Informatik) Business Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) or a related field available for roughly 20 hours per week during the semester.
• Based in Germany and legally eligible to work in Germany as a working student. Ideally you are based in Frankfurt am Main or the surrounding area.
• Solid hands-on experience with Flutter and Dart or strong cross-platform mobile development experience and the motivation to get fluent quickly.
• Familiar with state management patterns. We use BLoC but experience with comparable approaches is absolutely fine.
• Experience with Firebase or a transferable background with another BaaS or cloud platform particularly authentication document databases and hosting.
• Enough web fundamentals including HTML CSS and the DOM to debug how Flutter Web actually renders. It has its own quirks.
• Comfortable with Git and collaborative development workflows. Experience with GitLab is a plus.
• Comfortable taking ownership of a problem asking the right questions and figuring things out without needing every step predefined.
• You know how to debug systematically and chase root causes rather than just symptoms. When something is flaky you want to understand why before you fix it.
• Fluent in English and comfortable working in an English-speaking team. German skills are a plus.

Modern workplace: Our office is located right in the innovation hub of Goethe University and Frankfurt School surrounded by startups research and an entrepreneurial community.

Hybrid and flexible working: We offer flexible working hours and the option to work from home giving you the flexibility to balance work with your studies and everyday life.

Work in an agile team: Youll be part of a collaborative and motivated team that values continuous improvement open communication and achieving goals together.

Sports and wellness benefits: Get access to a wide range of sports and wellness activities through Wellpass.

Were hiring two working students for this role: one to join us at the beginning of October and another to start in January. Let us know in your application which start date works best for you.