Senior Software Engineer

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.

Over the past 7 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. We've just closed a $20M funding round, to continue our current ambitions of 1) expanding our support to students globally, specifically looking at the US and 2) building a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

What we’re looking for

A Senior Software Engineer with experience in Javascript, React & NextJS, Node.js, Typescript, AWS & TDD. You'll be joining our Consumer Tribe, working in a squad with a data-driven mission to develop complex strategies and managing a broader range of technical SEO projects, enhancing the logged-out user experience and subscription experiences of our D2C customers.

How we work together

We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common data-driven goal. This role will be a part of our squad consisting of a Director of Organic & Paid, 4-5 Engineers, Data Engineer, QA Engineer, Designer and a Product Manager.

What you’ll do

• You will work in a squad in our product ecosystem providing technical leadership, mentoring, designing, implementing, testing and documenting solutions to help the squad achieve its goal.
• You will actively contribute to the design and code base of React & NextJS front-end web applications, serverless NodeJS back-end applications and distributed AWS cloud systems.
• Within the squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilising test-driven development (Jest /Cypress), continuous integration (AWS), code review (GitHub) and servant leadership practices.
• You will be expected to maintain in-depth technical knowledge of applications under squad’s stewardship, particularly around domains such as technical SEO, web application for logged-out user experience, user account creation and payment handling.
• Leading the technical project by breaking down large features and epics into smaller pieces of work to enable others in the squad to work more efficiently.
• Help troubleshooting and resolving technical issues reported, collaborating closely with the technical and non-technical stakeholders to provide timely solutions.
• You will be facilitating meetings and discussion involving the squad, collecting and follow-up on action outcomes, communicating technical project plans and progress during execution.
• Partner with other engineering teams, product managers, and designers to align on requirements and deliver high-quality features that enhance our product.

It’s the perfect role for you if you have:

• Strong experience with writing performant, high quality web applications using Javascript, React/NextJS, Node.js, Typescript.
• A strong understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST, object-oriented & functional programming, relational database design and NOSQL databases.
• Strong experience working with Cloud computing providers (AWS).
• Strong experience with modern Javascript, development techniques and tooling.
• Strong understanding of Relational Database and NOSQL Databases.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD
• 4+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders and the ability to boil down complex technical problems and make them easy to understand.

⭐️ It’s a plus if you have:

• A degree in a computing related subject.
• Experience working in technical SEO and/or payments domain related projects.
• Experience in a startup environment.
• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!

🌈 Benefits include:

✨Compensation

The salary for this role is £70,000

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? 

🏠 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. 

🧠 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 , 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, together in collaboration with product and commercial colleagues.

🌴 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

❄️ 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 diverse age groups, 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