Working Student Software Engineer (Flutter) (m/f/d)

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. We're a small team, so this isn't a shadowing role: you'll ship real fixes and features into production apps, work directly with the founders, and see your work reach classrooms within days, not sprints.

Tasks

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

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: You’ll 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.

We’re 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.

Maple Tales is an EdTech startup building digital learning experiences that help children develop their reading and language skills.

Our products combine technology, engaging content, and learning science to create experiences that students actually enjoy using. We develop reading and language-learning apps for students as well as digital tools for teachers and language schools. Our technology also powers several white-label learning platforms for educational partners.

We are a small, ambitious team, which means you will work directly on products used by real students, teachers, and schools. Ideas can move quickly from a conversation to a prototype and into production.

We are based in Frankfurt, right in the innovation hub of Goethe University and Frankfurt School, surrounded by startups, research, and an entrepreneurial community.Maple Tales widmet sich dem immer relevanter werdenden bildungswissenschaftlichen Problem, dass die aktive Lesezeit von Kindern seit Jahren stetig abnimmt während die Nutzung der digitalen Endgeräte steigt. Wir nutzen dabei die Bildschirmzeit des Kindes, um es an die mannigfaltige Welt des Lesens zu führen. Dabei fördern wir den Spaß am Lesen und bringen das Lesen auf eine digitale Plattform, bei welcher das Grundschulkind eine eigene 15-minütige Geschichte kreieren kann.