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Up Learn • London, United Kingdom

Senior Software Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

A little flex time

Job Description

Are you looking for a way to reinvent the way the world learns? Do you want to push the boundaries of software engineering and product development best practices? Up Learn may be the right place for you.

Come join an international remote first engineering team based out of UK, Brazil, and India. Come be a senior member of the engineering team that regularly practices pair programming and test driven development. You will be laying Up Learn’s foundations for scale and building a product that successfully tackles one of the most meaningful problems there is: education.

About us

At Up Learn, we guarantee students academic success or their money back. Up Learn provides the entire curriculum learning component of education, and if we’re successful we’ll eliminate the need for exams and reinvent education into an experience that prepares students for the rest of their lives.

We have a team-first culture: we’re building Up Learn into the best company to work at in the world, so that we’re able to do the best possible work for our customers: the students. The work we do for students today, will have a lasting impact for the rest of their lives. Read more about why join Up Learn and the technical challenges you can work on here: https://tech.uplearn.co.uk/why-join-up-learn/

About you

You want to have a positive impact on people's lives. You care about the software you build, designing it to be maintainable. You also care about building software that has a smooth and painless user experience. You enjoy learning on the job and care sincerely about the team your work with.

What you’ll do in the first 6 months

  • You’ll help improve engineering practices by incorporating practices like test-first development and end-to-end tests in CI/CD
  • You’ll build dozens of new features and services from scratch
  • You’ll work with the product manager to help prioritize problems to solve and help identify the best solutions for them
  • You'll design the architecture of at least one feature

Requirements

You should have:

  • Strong programming basics either obtained in school or through experience.
  • Experience with one or more of:
    • React + Typescript
    • Elixir
  • Software architecture and design skills
  • Strong ethical foundation of humility, integrity, passion, and service to society

Bonus points for:

  • Experience being a tech lead in a product squad
  • Experience with people management and related responsibilities

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Opportunity to work remote full time as a part of an international team
  • A team that focuses on consistent delivery of quality software instead of arbitrary deadlines and overtimes
  • Hackathons every 2 months and weekly no-work-talk calls to have fun with the team
  • Fortnightly reader's club to build knowledge and learn from one another
  • Annual visit to the UK for the company annual retreat
  • Flexible working hours, unlimited holidays (minimum 26 days)

One of our pillars is valuing people and we are proud to say that we are a company that supports diversity and inclusion. Therefore, we consider all candidates for our vacancies, without distinction of race, color, religion, gender and gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, etc.

Company benefits

26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Work from anywhere scheme
Flexible working week
Dental coverage
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced sick pay – up to 10 days
Dog friendly office
Company wide holidays/offsites
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays
Cycle to work scheme
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Hackathons
Lunch and learns
Open to part time work for some roles
Location
94%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
86%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
91%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
92%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
71%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
81%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
88%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
94%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
69%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Up Learn

Company employees

72

Gender diversity (male:female)

57% male, 43% female

Office locations

London, UK

Funding levels

£5m+

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
2nd – EdTech & Education

2nd – EdTech & Education

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
EdTech & Education

EdTech & Education

Industry awards 2022