Software Engineer II – Platforms & Data

🕒 April 21

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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Unibuddy

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

Education • Recruitment • SaaS

Unibuddy is transforming how higher education institutions conduct student recruitment by leveraging student-to-student marketing. It offers a platform that connects prospective students with current student ambassadors, allowing them to engage authentically throughout the enrollment journey. By personalizing interactions based on prospective students' interests and activities, Unibuddy simplifies the recruitment process and enhances enrollment rates for universities. It provides insights into what prospective students care about, helping institutions tailor their marketing and recruitment strategies more effectively. The platform empowers students to make well-informed decisions about their future education by facilitating meaningful peer interactions.

📋 Description

• You will gain exposure to the full stack of the Unibuddy platform across web, native, and backend to deliver engaging solutions to our users and customers. • This role sits within our Platform squad, where you will be responsible for developing systems and tooling, and improving infrastructure that underpin the platform and the efforts of the wider engineering team. • Reporting to the squad Tech Lead, you will be working in a cross-functional squad responsible for implementations across a client and server-side stack, with a keen eye for the user journey and their experience using our products. • You will have the opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and AI systems to bring powerful features to the hands of our customers and users.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficient in Typescript and bonus points for Python • Experience building applications powered by GraphQL APIs • Experience working within a microservice-driven environment • Exposure to modern monitoring and alerting strategies and associated tooling to enable them • Comfortable building robust test suites across different edges of the testing pyramid • Are an AI adopter and can clearly navigate parallel pipelines, agentic tooling and understand the value of building agents around systems-thinking, testing and validation, and not just code-gen • Experience building performant, well-architected microservices using common Javascript frameworks such as Express or Nest • MongoDB or any other NoSQL database solution and an understanding common design patterns, features and limitations • Event-driven systems utilising Kafka, Kinesis, Rabbit MQ • Product-minded and user-obsessed • Demonstrate true ownership of a product - owning its ongoing upkeep, maintenance, performance, and bug resolution • Curious and eager to learn. We thrive on continuous personal development and regularly showcase new thinking and ideas generated from those in our engineering team • A team player, happy to teach and be taught by those around you • AI-onboarded. You’re using AI tooling to accelerate your workflow and automate where necessary

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly flexible work culture • Private healthcare • Life insurance coverage • Pension matched up to 6% • Generous time off: 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional special day for a personal occasion (like your birthday, engagement, or wedding), extra days based on tenure, and 4 additional days at the end of the year for a company-wide shutdown • Enhanced parental leave: Including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave • Equipment: A MacBook and all the tools you need to do your best work • Inclusive and supportive culture: We pride ourselves on our diverse team, with 50 employees across the UK, Europe, US, India, and Canada. We’ve been recognised by Flexa, Built In, and Mogul for our culture, benefits, and flexibility