Software Engineer

Job Description

Are you looking for a way to reinvent the way the world learns? Do you want to work on the latest tech stack and learn the best software development 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 part of a 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. Read more about why you should join Up Learn here: https://tech.uplearn.co.uk/why-join-up-learn/

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.

About you

You want to build something that makes a huge positive impact on people's lives. You care about the code you write, aiming to make it robust, readable and maintainable. You are excited about building a smooth and painless experience for students and are willing to put in the effort to achieve that. 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 work on frontend, backend, DevOps - all while getting support in the parts you don't know.
• 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 design the architecture of at least one feature

Requirements

You should have:

• Strong programming basics either obtained in school or through experience.
• Experience with Elixir+Phoenix or React+Typescript
• Practice of writing high quality tests
• Strong ethical foundation of humility, integrity, passion, and service to society

Bonus points for:

• Experience with TDD
• Experience with mobile application development
• Experience with end-to-end testing

Benefits

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.

• 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.