Online learning platform with 1M+ student users across Europe
sofatutor operates a subscription-based EdTech platform serving over 1 million school children with video lessons, interactive exercises, and worksheets. The hiring mix—skewed toward marketing (3 roles) and product (2) with minimal engineering (1)—paired with active projects around growth experiments, A/B testing, and creative scaling, signals a business optimizing for user acquisition and retention rather than building new technical infrastructure. The platform also runs a separate app for younger learners (ages 2–6).
sofatutor is a Berlin-based public EdTech company founded in 2008, operating a subscription learning platform for K–12 students across German-speaking and international markets. The core platform provides over 9,000 instructional videos, 39,000 interactive exercises, and 35,000 worksheets, with roughly 150 employees split across content creation, product, and marketing. A companion app, sofatutor KIDS, targets early childhood learners (2–6 years) with games designed to teach foundational literacy and numeracy skills. The business model relies on parent and student subscription acquisition, with current focus on improving conversion rates and retention.
Ruby, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails for backend/frontend. Google Analytics 4, Amplitude, and Power BI for analytics. Looker Studio for dashboarding. Instagram and YouTube for distribution. Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising for paid acquisition.
The platform hosts over 9,000 learning videos, 39,000 interactive exercises, and 35,000 worksheets. More than 1 million school children actively use the service.
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