Software Engineer – Full-stack Javascript

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🕒 May 5

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

💵 £60k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Perlego

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

Education • SaaS

Perlego is an online platform that provides a digital library of more than a million books, working with educators and publishers to make knowledge more accessible. It is designed to streamline the learning process by offering a vast range of study tools and features such as a research assistant, smart search, and reading aids. Perlego helps users learn more effectively by allowing keyword searches, storing notes and references, and offering features like BeeLine Reader and Read Aloud. With its mission to break down barriers to education, Perlego supports students, educators, and institutions by providing affordable and high-quality course materials, fostering an enhanced learning experience.

📋 Description

• Joining a squad of 4 Engineers alongside an Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, QA Engineer, Designer, and a Product Manager. • This team moves beyond system maintenance to execute on the product roadmap and achieve ambitious D2C growth targets. • Joining a team of two engineers working closely with an Engineering Manager, working to ensure seamless partner connectivity, manager university integrations and institutional stability.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • Experience in sharing ideation thoughts and executing A/B tests to evaluate the impact of different features and monetisation strategies. • Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 22 days annual leave + 1 additional day per year of service • Days between Boxing Day and New Year off, additional to annual leave • Flexibility to swap local bank holidays for religious or cultural days • Flexible short-period remote working overseas, as long as you remain a UK tax resident • 1-month unpaid sabbatical after 3 years; 1-month paid sabbatical after 5 years • 1 additional day per year for life events • Private medical, optical and dental insurance via Vitality • Cycle to Work Scheme • Regular social events and activities for everyone • Competitive matched parental leave and phased return to work • Workplace Nursery Benefit