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.

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 Software Engineer with experience in Typescript, Node.js, AWS and React. You'll be joining our University tribe, with a mission to grow our global network of university and institutional partnerships.

How we work together

We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common goal. This role will be a part of our University Partner squad consisting of an Engineering Manager, four Software Engineers, a QA Engineer, a Product Manager and a Product Designer.

What you’ll do

• You will work in a self-organising team in our product ecosystem providing technical development skills (Node.js/AWS/React) within the squad, co-solutioning and getting hands-on implementing the solutions to help your squad achieve its goal.
• You will be developing and maintaining in-depth technical knowledge of our university and partnerships domain, including university authentication systems, library management, and content discovery systems.
• You will contribute to the design and code base of distributed AWS cloud systems, Serverless Node.js application backends and React web application frontends.
• 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).
• 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 backend applications that provide RESTful APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience in developing web applications using React, HTML and CSS.
• A working understanding of architectural practices including: microservices, object-oriented & functional programming, relational database design and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with Cloud computing providers (such as AWS).
• 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.
• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!