Software Engineer - (Platform Experience)

What we do

At Perlego, we are working hard to make education accessible to all. In this digital age, we believe that anyone should be able to learn anything at any time. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

Over the past 9 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. Our ambition is to expand our support to students globally, specifically looking at the US, and build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

What we are looking for

A Software Engineer with experience in Typescript, React, Node.js & AWS. We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common goal. You'll be joining our Platform Experience squad with a mission to help our users find and use the best learning materials, 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 domain, particularly around dealing with (semantic) search, book reading, and collaboration tooling, 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 / Playwright), continuous integration (Github Actions) 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

• 2+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer.
• Experience in implementing performant, high quality web applications using Typescript, React, Node.js, and have experience with accessibility features.
• A working 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 working in an Agile environment with CI/CD.
• Experience in participating in product discovery and sharing ideation thoughts.
• A working understanding of web security principles (OWASP) and deployment.
• 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 in a startup environment.
• Experience with React Native.
• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!

🏠 Hybrid Working

We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment. Spend any 2 days per week in our London office to meet up with colleagues, and the other days where you see fit.

🧠 L&D Budget

We value continuous learning and you will have a personal L&D budget for online courses, subscriptions, or books not on Perlego.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects, or interests outside their day-to-day role, including Hackathons.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

22 days annual leave + 1 additional day per year of service

❄️ Office Reset

The days between Boxing Day and New Year off, additional to annual leave.

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

Flexibility to swap local bank holidays for religious or cultural days.

🗺 Work from overseas

Flexible short-period remote working overseas, as long as you remain a UK tax resident.

🏖 Sabbatical

1-month unpaid sabbatical after 3 years; 1-month paid sabbatical after 5 years.

💛 Personal Days

1 additional day per year for life events.

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

Private medical, optical and dental insurance via Vitality.

🎉 Social

Regular social events and activities for everyone.

🍼 Family time

Competitive matched parental leave and phased return to work.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

🌈 We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background. We are actively building a diverse team, so we strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know.