Software Engineer

What you’ll get

At Perlego we believe in the key role you will play to achieve our shared mission. You'll belong to a culture of dreamers, team players and avid learners with a flexible, value-based approach. Here, you can become your best self, and through your talent, make a real impact in the world of education.

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.

We recently expanded our library to make over 1 million books affordable for learners, earned a 100% Gold ASPIRE rating for accessibility and reached over 15 million people. The next stage of Perlego is twofold: 1) expand our support to students and publishers globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and educators teach more effectively.

What we’re looking for

A Software Engineer with experience in Typescript, React, Node.js, AWS & TDD. You'll be joining our Learning tribe, working in the Reader squad with a mission to help our users have the best reading and learning experience possible.

How we work together

We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common goal. This role wisll be a part of our Reader squad consisting of an Engineering Manger, Software Engineers, QA Engineer & Product Manager.

What you’ll do

• You will work in a self-organising team in our product ecosystem providing technical development skills (React/Node/AWS) within the squad, co-solutioning and getting hands-on implementing the solutions to help your squad achieve it's goal.
• You will be developing and maintaining in-depth technical knowledge of our reader domain, particularly around dealing with epubs and pdfs, read aloud, and content security, both in a web and mobile application environment.
• You will contribute to the design and code base of distributed AWS cloud systems, Serverless Node.js application back-ends and React web application front-ends.
• Within your squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilising test-driven development (Jest /Cypress), continuous integration (AWS) and code review (GitHub).
• Partner with other engineering teams, product managers, and designers to align on requirements and deliver high-quality features that enhance our learning and researching experience.
• You and your cross-functional squad will look after application features from inception to production working with customers and business stakeholders to bring them to life and support them in production.

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

• Experience in implementing web applications using Typescript, React, Node.js, HTML & CSS.
• A working understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST, object-oriented & functional programming, relational database design and NOSQL databases.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with CI/CD.
• A working understanding of web security principles (OWASP) and deployment.
• 2+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer.

⭐️ It’s a plus if you have:

• Experience in a startup environment.
• Experience with frontend, especially accessibility features.
• Experience working with Cloud computing providers (AWS).
• Experience with React Native.
• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!