Senior Software Engineer

What we do

At Perlego, there are almost 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. We believe access to good quality affordable learning unlocks potential. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

Over the past 7 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. We've just closed a $20M funding round, to continue our current ambitions of 1) expanding our support to students globally, specifically looking at the US and 2) building a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

What we’re looking for

A Senior Software Engineer with experience in Javascript, React & NextJS, Node.js, Typescript, AWS & TDD. You'll be joining our Consumer Tribe, working in a squad with a data-driven mission to develop complex strategies and managing a broader range of technical SEO projects, enhancing the logged-out user experience and subscription experiences of our D2C customers.

How we work together

We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common data-driven goal. This role will be a part of our squad consisting of a Director of Organic & Paid, 4-5 Engineers, Data Engineer, QA Engineer, Designer and a Product Manager.

What you’ll do

• You will work in a squad in our product ecosystem providing technical leadership, mentoring, designing, implementing, testing and documenting solutions to help the squad achieve its goal.
• You will actively contribute to the design and code base of React & NextJS front-end web applications, serverless NodeJS back-end applications and distributed AWS cloud systems.
• Within the squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilising test-driven development (Jest /Cypress), continuous integration (AWS), code review (GitHub) and servant leadership practices.
• You will be expected to maintain in-depth technical knowledge of applications under squad’s stewardship, particularly around domains such as technical SEO, web application for logged-out user experience, user account creation and payment handling.
• Leading the technical project by breaking down large features and epics into smaller pieces of work to enable others in the squad to work more efficiently.
• Help troubleshooting and resolving technical issues reported, collaborating closely with the technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide timely solutions.
• You will be facilitating meetings and discussion involving the squad, collecting and follow-up on action outcomes, communicating technical project plans and progress during execution.
• Partner with other engineering teams, product managers, and designers to align on requirements and deliver high-quality features that enhance our product.

It’s the perfect role for you if you have:

• Strong experience with writing performant, high quality web applications using Javascript, React/NextJS, Node.js, Typescript.
• A strong understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST, object-oriented & functional programming, relational database design and NOSQL databases.
• Strong experience working with Cloud computing providers (AWS).
• Strong experience with modern Javascript, development techniques and tooling.
• Strong understanding of Relational Database and NOSQL Databases.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD
• 4+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders and the ability to boil down complex technical problems and make them easy to understand.

⭐️ It’s a plus if you have:

• A degree in a computing related subject.
• Experience working in technical SEO and/or payments domain related projects.
• Experience in a startup environment.
• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!