Build and maintain scalable marketplace and identity products using TypeScript, Next.js, and React. Deliver impactful, tested features; collaborate with product managers and engineering leaders; communicate technical risks; and support system availability, monitoring, incident response, performance, security, and observability. Contribute code reviews, pair programming, maintainability improvements, pragmatic AI use, and alignment between engineering work, user needs, and business goals.
A Software Engineer (TypeScript) in UNiDAYS is a hands-on software development role focused on building innovative solutions to delight our members and drive product success in a fast-paced company.
It’s more than just lines of code; we are looking for a commercially-minded TypeScript Engineer who can bridge the gap between user needs and business goals. You will have the ability to build resilient, cost-effective solutions and navigate evolving market demands.
You will be working in one of our product, delivery, and engineering teams, defining, refining, building, and measuring the impact of the solutions you implement. Our Marketplace and Identity products are key to everything we do, enabling our users (students and graduates) to access a wide range of learning, earning, and retail experiences with some of the top brands on the planet.
Job requirements
You must have experience and practical knowledge in:
You might also have an awareness of:
Definitely not required but you could also be interested in learning or have experience with:
Job responsibilities
Benefits
This is your opportunity to Join the world’s largest student verification network and help shape the future of how brands connect with the next generation. We engage a community of 23M+ verified students and graduates across 115 markets, making us a truly global platform. Our brand is a powerhouse in the UK, and we’re rapidly accelerating our presence worldwide—especially in the US, Germany, India, France, Canada, and Australia.
We partner with 850+ of the world’s biggest brands, bringing their products and services to the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals—driving engagement, building affinity, and delivering real results.
We offer a fast-paced, fun, and social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe work should enhance and complement your life, which is why we provide a hybrid working model. You will work together in person a minimum of 2 days per week and work from home for up to 3 days a week.
We work hard at UNiDAYS, and we believe in fair compensation for that hard work. That’s why we’re proud to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.
Our perks include:
25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays
Competitive salaries
4pm finishes every Friday
Company pension scheme
Private health insurance (BUPA)
Dental Insurance (BUPA)
Income protection policy
Life assurance policy
Employee Assistance Program
Enhanced parental leave pay
Regular team building activities
£150 pounds towards your home office set up
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
It’s more than just lines of code; we are looking for a commercially-minded TypeScript Engineer who can bridge the gap between user needs and business goals. You will have the ability to build resilient, cost-effective solutions and navigate evolving market demands.
You will be working in one of our product, delivery, and engineering teams, defining, refining, building, and measuring the impact of the solutions you implement. Our Marketplace and Identity products are key to everything we do, enabling our users (students and graduates) to access a wide range of learning, earning, and retail experiences with some of the top brands on the planet.
Job requirements
You must have experience and practical knowledge in:
- TypeScript
- Next.js and React
- Unit testing with libraries like Jest, React Testing Library, or vitest
- e2e testing tools like Cypress or Playwright
- Strong problem - solving skills and attention to detail
- A passion for engineering craft - you practise writing maintainable code, reviewing code, pair programming at times, and writing tests
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- A desire to build systems that are stable, scalable, secure, observable, and performant
- You seek to understand how your work aligns with business goals and maximise the impact
You might also have an awareness of:
- Web best practices like:
- Accessibility
- Core web vitals
- Observability
- Performance
- SEO
- Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban etc. and the adaptability to respond to the needs of the business
Definitely not required but you could also be interested in learning or have experience with:
- React Native (our app is built on React Native!)
- C# and .net (most of our back-end services are .net)
Job responsibilities
- Contributing to the team's goal of delivering our next generation market place and identity products
- Deliver impactful features with a pragmatic approach
- Proactively contributing to the betterment of other engineers in the company by providing constructive, candid feedback
- Work closely with engineering leaders to build modern and scalable technical solutions
- Work closely with product managers and product owners in creating relevant and performant features for our users
- Assist in the communication of solutions/risks of technical problems to non technical stakeholders.
- Pragmatic use of AI in delivering solutions
- Support with ensuring high availability of our critical systems and being proactively involved in monitoring and incidents
Benefits
This is your opportunity to Join the world’s largest student verification network and help shape the future of how brands connect with the next generation. We engage a community of 23M+ verified students and graduates across 115 markets, making us a truly global platform. Our brand is a powerhouse in the UK, and we’re rapidly accelerating our presence worldwide—especially in the US, Germany, India, France, Canada, and Australia.
We partner with 850+ of the world’s biggest brands, bringing their products and services to the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals—driving engagement, building affinity, and delivering real results.
We offer a fast-paced, fun, and social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe work should enhance and complement your life, which is why we provide a hybrid working model. You will work together in person a minimum of 2 days per week and work from home for up to 3 days a week.
We work hard at UNiDAYS, and we believe in fair compensation for that hard work. That’s why we’re proud to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.
Our perks include:
25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays
Competitive salaries
4pm finishes every Friday
Company pension scheme
Private health insurance (BUPA)
Dental Insurance (BUPA)
Income protection policy
Life assurance policy
Employee Assistance Program
Enhanced parental leave pay
Regular team building activities
£150 pounds towards your home office set up
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
Unidays London, England Office
Epworth House, 25 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1Y 1AA
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