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Perlego • Holborn, United Kingdom

Software Engineer

Employment type:  Full time
8.2

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87%

Location flexibility

82%

Autonomy

70%

Benefits

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Job Description

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.

We recently expanded our library to make over 1 million books affordable for learners, earned a 100% Gold ASPIRE rating for accessibility and reached over 15 million people. The next stage of Perlego is twofold: 1) expand our support to students and publishers globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and educators teach more effectively.

What we’re looking for

A Software Engineer with experience in Typescript, React, Node.js, AWS & TDD. You'll be joining our Learning tribe, working in the Reader squad with a mission to help our users have the best reading and learning experience possible.

How we work together

We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common goal. This role wisll be a part of our Reader squad 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 reader domain, particularly around dealing with epubs and pdfs, read aloud, and content security, 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 /Cypress), continuous integration (AWS) 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:

  • Experience in implementing web applications using Typescript, React, Node.js, HTML & CSS.
  • A working understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST, object-oriented & functional programming, relational database design and NOSQL databases.
  • 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.
  • Experience with frontend, especially accessibility features.
  • Experience working with Cloud computing providers (AWS).
  • Experience with React Native.
  • Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!

Benefits

🌈 Benefits include:

✨Compensation

The salary range for this role is £58,000 - £65,000 + share options

Why should you work at Perlego?

Apart from our mission, we foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.

Want to learn more about how we’re making learning accessible? Check out our latest impact report

🏠 Flexible

We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. If you’re based in London, we’d expect to see you in the office twice a week, if you’re in the UK but outside of London we’d expect to see you at least 6 times a quarter (hopefully at our quarterly socials 💃). If you’re looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you.

At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them. Check out our Flexa profile to find out more.

🧠 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.

🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities

Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of their day-to-day job, including Hackathons which bring our entire Engineering team together to work on exciting projects.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service up to 35 days off (incl. bank holidays)

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

We understand that not everyone aligns with the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local country's bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days.

e.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations

🗺 Work from overseas

We are also flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident

❄️ Office Reset

All employees can also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the new year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂

🏖 Sabbatical

After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical

💛 Personal Days

Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love!

We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school).

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.

💭 Mental Health

All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months.

🎉 Social

We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights.

🍼 Family time

We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as a phased return to work from extended leave.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year.

👋 Belonging at Perlego

🌈 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.

📣 To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing ben@perlego.com

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 14 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)
Enhanced paternity leave – 12 weeks full pay.
Adoption leave – 12 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)
Shared parental leave – 12 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)
Work from anywhere scheme – Up to 6 months per year
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced sick pay – 10 days
Co-working space allowance
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Fertility treatment leave
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays
Hofy home office set up
Work from home budget
Mental health platform access – Spill membership

We asked employees of Perlego what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
87%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
68%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
65%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
70%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
82%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at Perlego

Company employees

99

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Office locations

1 Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST

Funding levels

Series B

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
EdTech & Education

EdTech & Education

Industry awards 2023

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