Senior Software Engineer (Builder)

Builder at Famly Raising a young child takes a village - families, educators, and everyone else in a child's early life. But too often those grown-ups work in isolation from each other, and from the information that would help them nurture a child together. Famly is the early childhood platform that closes that gap: one place for the adults around a child to connect, share the workload, and learn - so they can focus on the early interactions that count. For over a million parents it's how they stay close to their child's day, for educators it's how they collaborate with families and each other (and get the boring admin off their plate), and for providers it's how they run a thriving setting. All of it in service of a better start for every child. We're looking for experienced engineers - we call them Builders - to help us make it better. We have open spots in several of our teams right now, so below find a short intro to each team currently hiring, and what being a Builder at Famly actually means, so you can see where you'd fit. This is a senior role. We're looking for someone who's already operated with this level of autonomy - who's shipped significant features end-to-end, made architectural calls they had to live with, and can be trusted with ambiguity from day one. You won't be ramped up into ownership, you'll be expected to bring it. You will of course be surrounded by a lot of kind and brilliant colleagues, to spar with every day. The teams currently hiring Famly is organised into small, autonomous teams, each owning a meaningful slice of the product end-to-end. The following have an open position right now: ACE - Aid, Connect & Educate ACE owns the connective tissue between a nursery and the families it serves, mapped onto three parts of Famly's mission - keep children safe , communicate , and help every child learn and grow : Aid - keeping children safe and settings compliant : accident forms, medication records, immunizations, headcounts, and the daily logs (meals, naps, nappies) that keep a room accountable and audit-ready. Connect - parent and staff communication: Newsfeed, Messaging, live translation, meal booking, photos, permissions, and the staff documents and handover notes the team relies on. The daily thread between nursery, home, and colleagues. Educate - helping every child learn and grow: the activity library, activity planner, curriculum builder, and child development records educators use to track and nurture progress. It's a large surface area with real human stakes on the other end of every feature. That's the point. ACE is a team of 9 - five Builders (plus the one we're hiring), working alongside a Product Manager, a Designer, and a Head of Product. This role is based in our Copenhagen office. STAT - Staffing, Attendance & Capacity Every day, nursery and school managers lose hours to rotas, ratios, staff absence, and the time tracking admin that follows — time they'd rather spend with their staff and the children in their care. Staffing is a nursery's single biggest cost line, and one of the most tightly regulated parts of running one — ratios, qualifications, overtime and time-off rules all vary market by market. Get it right, and you unlock better economics, more predictable site capacity, and more time for staff to focus on the children in their care. That's the opportunity Famly's Staffing, Attendance & Capacity experience exists to seize. What the team takes care of: Staffing - staff schedules, time tracking, absence, contract, and hours for payroll Compliance - staff-ratio calculations, special care rules, ratio reports Capacity - occupancy, room move scenario automation, future availability, leavers Room management - expected attendance, live attendance, compliance oversight, settings Attendance - child attendance, the sign-in app, child holiday management A lot of STAT's work is time and space based rules and logic that simply has to be correct - plus integrations with other systems that depends on Famly data as the source of truth. If getting the hard, must-be-right problems exactly right is satisfying to you, this is fertile ground. STAT is a team of 8 - four Builders (plus the one we're hiring), working alongside a Product Manager, a Designer, and a Head of Product. This role is based in our Copenhagen office. Finance - Billing, Payments & Funding Fees are where a nursery's goodwill gets tested. Parents want a bill they can understand, owners want the money actually in the bank, and the person in the office wants an evening back instead of a spreadsheet reconciling government funding against 200 children's attendance. Childcare pricing is genuinely awkward: fees per session and per product, sibling discounts, deposits, surcharges, credits, and public funding that changes shape in every market. Get it right, and a setting knows what it will earn next month, gets paid on time, and stops guessing. That's what Famly's billing and payments experience exists to do. What the team takes care of: Plans and pricing - pricing structures and pricing bands, session and product catalogues, term dates and attendance schedules, discounts, deposits, surcharges, and the plans that turn a child's schedule into a bill Invoicing - invoice runs and batch reissues, billing schemes from actuals to annualised, bill payers and how one child's bill splits between them, credit notes, and balances Payments - card and direct debit through Stripe, autopay, parent bookings and ad hoc purchases, UK Tax-Free Childcare, and payment methods that differ market by market Getting paid - debt collection with overdue buckets, payment reminders, bank statement imports, and the revenue and debt reports owners run every month Public funding - UK funded hours, entitlements and eligibility codes, US state subsidies with parent copay, German parental contributions, and the reports that claim the money back Accounting exports - the chart of accounts and exports into DATEV, Sage, Xero, and QuickBooks, so the numbers land where a finance team already works Every number here is someone's money, and a rounding error is a phone call from a parent. Precision matters, though it rarely means one right answer. Where regulation is exact - funded hours, tax rules, what a direct debit mandate allows - the code has to match it to the decimal. Everywhere else, a nursery in Berlin prices care nothing like a nursery in Ohio, so the work is giving each of them room to do it their way without handing them a blank spreadsheet. Drawing that line well, over and over, across markets, is most of the craft here. Finance is a team of 14 - 8 Builders (plus the one we're hiring), working alongside two Product Managers, two Designers, and a Head of Product. This role could be based in our Berlin office or Copenhagen office.