Software Engineer

LearnUpon is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in either Dublin, Ireland or Belgrade, Serbia.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Philadelphia, Belgrade, and Sydney, we are a team that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one), and we go the extra mile to deliver work we're proud of.

Our offices are open, collaborative environments where our team and individual accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. Join LearnUpon, where we work together as a friendly, supportive team who, most importantly, like to have fun.

As a Software Engineer in our Engineering group, you will be responsible for the delivery of features, services, enhancements, and fixes of LearnUpon’s core product. You’ll be participating in the development of a scalable, best-in-class LMS and you’ll strengthen the great company culture that we have in LearnUpon.

Our current tech stack is: 

• Angular, AngularJS, VanillaJS
• Ruby on Rails, Golang, Kafka
• MySQL, Redis, TimescaleDB
• AWS S3, SNS, SES
• EFK, Prometheus

What will I be doing?

• Delivering solutions that enable our engineering teams to deliver features seamlessly.
• Collaborating closely with other engineering teams when required in order to maintain the integrity of the LU platform. 
• Actively improving the level of craftsmanship in our code and designs.
• Driving impact and innovation by designing, building and shipping software at scale.
• Mentoring and onboarding new or less experienced colleagues.

What skills do I need?                                                                                  

• 2+ years of experience in software design and development in an object-oriented programming language such as Ruby, C#, Java.
• Can appreciate technology agnostic solutions for a clear company vision.
• Experience with understanding and implementing Agile-focused best practices.
• Experience building highly-available, scalable applications in an online, nearline, and offline environment.
• Experience with relational-databases and query performance.
• Excellent communication skills.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a big plus:

• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Exposure to Amazon Web Services.
• Previous experience of eLearning technologies. 
• Experience with API and payment gateway integrations.
• Experience with a client-side JavaScript framework. 
• Experience troubleshooting HTTP and application performance issues. 

Why work with us?

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular social events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.
• Structured learning environment.
• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Employer Contributed Pension. 
• Private health insurance.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off.

What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with our CEO/CTO.
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

Visit our Careers site to find out more about working for LearnUpon, and check us out on Instagram.