Software Engineer

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 mid-level 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.

Requirements

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.