Software Engineer - (Full-stack Javascript)

What we do

At Perlego, we are working hard to make education accessible to all. In this digital age, we believe that anyone should be able to learn anything at any time. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

Over the past 9 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. Our ambition is to expand our support to students globally, specifically looking at the US, and build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

What we are looking for

Software Engineers with experience in Javascript, React, Node.js, Typescript, AWS & TDD. We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working toward a common data-driven goal. These new hires will be distributed across two key business areas:

1. D2C (Learner Tribe): Joining a squad of 4 Engineers alongside an Engineering Manager, QA Engineer, Designer, and a Product Manager, working to execute on the product roadmap and achieve ambitious D2C growth targets, using A/B tests to evaluate the impact of different features and monetisation strategies.

• Tech stack: NextJS, React, Typescript, Node.js, AWS
• Nice to have: Stripe payment domain experience and/or Optimizely A/B experimentation tool experience

2. B2B (Partner Tribe): Joining a team of 3 Engineers alongside an Engineering Manager, QA Engineer, Designer, and a Product Manager, working to ensure seamless partner connectivity, manage university integrations and grow our global network of institution and bookstore partnerships.

• Tech stack: React, Typescript, Node.js, AWS
• Nice to have: Familiarity with authentication protocols; Experience designing and working with event-driven and asynchronous systems, including message queues and scheduled background jobs

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

• Commercial experience as a software engineer.
• 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.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD.
• Experience in participating in product discovery and sharing ideation thoughts.
• 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 in a startup environment.
• A strong understanding of Learning Management Systems

• Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!

✨ Compensation

The salary available for this role is £60,000- £65,000

🏠 Flexible

We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. However we would be open to a remote role for the right candidate.

🧠 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.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects, or interests outside their day-to-day role, including Hackathons.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

22 days annual leave + 1 additional day per year of service

❄️ Office Reset

The days between Boxing Day and New Year off, additional to annual leave.

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

Flexibility to swap local bank holidays for religious or cultural days.

🗺 Work from overseas

Flexible short-period remote working overseas, as long as you remain a UK tax resident.

🏖 Sabbatical

1-month unpaid sabbatical after 3 years; 1-month paid sabbatical after 5 years.

💛 Personal Days

1 additional day per year for life events.

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

Private medical, optical and dental insurance via Vitality.

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

🎉 Social

Regular social events and activities for everyone.

🍼 Family time

Competitive matched parental leave and phased return to work.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

🌈 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.

If you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know.