Teacherspace is looking for a CTO on our mission to help any teachers become the teachers they want to be and thereby improving well-being and learning outcomes for children anywhere.

We have a great founding team, an important problem to work on, a live product, paying customers, and great investors.

TL;DR version

• Teacherspace is a Copenhagen-based EdTech startup looking for a CTO

• The ideal profile is a full-stack developer who is eager to learn and passionate about education

• We have a product, users, customers, and great early investors

• Both founders have experience within our space and we offer a salary and significant equity

  
  

About Teacherspace

At Teacherspace we help schools recruit and retain teachers through video-based mentoring and feedback. We enable every teacher to become the teacher they want to be.

Our mobile apps for iOS and Android make it easy and secure for teachers to record their classroom, while our web app makes it easy for mentors and colleagues to provide feedback.

We currently sell two products: mentoring subscriptions and our SaaS product.

Some of our first investors are great entrepreneurs like Phil Chambers from Peakon and David Kofoed Wind from Eduflow.

We have customers and our product is live

Just in our first year, we have sold for €68k to schools and school districts.

Our first users and customers love Teacherspace and recommend us to their peers.

Teacherspace and the problem we are solving

We have all tried it. Having a teacher that you absolutely love. Someone you looked up to and who had a big impact on your life.

Maybe reading this will make you reminisce about what a difference she made for you. We want to help teachers reach their full potential and believe it can be accomplished with feedback, guidance, and support.

To do that we need to build a great and user-friendly way for teachers to get feedback that fits into their workflow.

Being a teacher is exceptionally difficult and there is little time and opportunities to get feedback on what matters the most: what happens in your classroom.

Who you will be joining - Meet Jesper and Frederik

We are two curious and ambitious people who have more than 10 years of experience with education and the problems for teachers we want to solve.

We have raised money, worked in education built teams and organizations, and taught and mentored teachers before so we have seen the problem we want to solve up close.

We are deeply passionate about making products that help teachers and we are in this for the long run.

Our 5 operating principles

1. Teachers First

2. Make it fun - celebrate the small wins

3. Fast - rather directionally right than slow and perfect

4. Transparent - what you see is what you get

5. Flexibility - people over systems

   
   

Who we are looking for and what we have to offer

In the perfect world, you are a great full-stack developer who lives near Copenhagen has UI/UX experience, and has also worked as a teacher. But less than perfect also works.

What matters the most is that you are excited about building something that will solve very real and big problems teachers face every day.

The value we want to create at Teacherspace will be created in close collaboration with teachers, so you should be curious about teachers and their lives and challenges.

You should get excited about the prospect of being the CTO and all the messy hands-on work that comes from that, as well as the long-term perspective of setting the strategy and being responsible for a great engineering team, that you will recruit and lead.

We are based in Copenhagen but you can be based anywhere +/- 3 time zones.

Skills and experience

• Full-stack developer. You should be able to make the architectural decisions to set us up for future growth as well as being excited to work on our web app and mobile app.

• You are excited about solving problems for teachers and are passionate about education.

• You have a passion for UX and design.

• You are a strategic thinker who thinks long-term.

• Experience with mobile apps is positive as mobile apps are central to our product

• You are a good recruiter or would like to become one.

• You are a good listener and communicator.

• Startup experience is helpful and so are side projects and anything else you have built that you are passionate about.

  
  

What we’re offering

As CTO you will get a salary and a significant equity stake. Details will be decided together as part of the interview process.

We are in this for the long run and just getting started and you will play a critical role, so you should see yourself as the future CTO of Teacherspace and be excited about the journey to help teachers become better.

Our product, tech stack, and roadmap

Currently, we have a web app as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Our backend and web app are built in Elixir (the PETAL framework) and our mobile apps are in Flutter.

Our Process

We are looking for a CTO to work with for many years to come, so we want to make sure that we are a good fit for you and vice versa. This is what we expect our process to look like.

1. An introductory call with Jesper to get to meet each other and talk about our vision

2. A call to meet Frederik and talk about our roadmap

3. If we get along and want to move forward we ask you to complete a questionnaire and share our answers as well.

4. Interview with one of our investors who is an experienced entrepreneur.

5. We schedule a technical interview - ideally, we also agree on a technical project to work together on.

6. We decide and either agree to not move on, or extend an offer.