Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Save My Exams, a rapidly growing EdTech company, as a Lead Engineer in our Acquisition Squad. You will ship impactful features and experiments to drive organic traffic and user growth, manage at least one engineer, and collaborate with other leads on technical architecture. The role requires strong web application development experience, people management skills, and excellent communication. You will work in a remote-first, small, cross-functional team, contributing to a positive and helpful engineering culture. This is a unique opportunity to join a profitable EdTech business at a key inflection point and make a real difference in the lives of millions of students.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience developing and operating web applications using a mix of frontend and backend technologies
• Experience managing people
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• User centricity and an attitude of taking responsibility for the product and code you ship to our students
• An understanding – and balanced opinions – of non-functional requirements including accessibility, performance, testing, usability and security
• Experience with Git and GitHub

Responsibilities

• Ship and own impactful features and experiments as part of a cross functional product squad to drive organic traffic, SEO and user growth
• Manage at least one engineer, helping them to grow and learn
• Work closely with the other engineering leads to define the technical architecture and strategy
• Improve our existing codebase to fix any issues and keep it in line with best practices and new technologies
• Understand our business, our students, and our content, allowing you to use your judgement to make autonomous decisions
• Collaborate across teams to identify, prioritise and solve problems iteratively
• Play an active role in our code review process, reviewing code from your team and others, and making it easy for others to review the code you write
• Write and maintain tests throughout our codebases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with our favoured tools: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Express, Postgres
• Experience with search engine optimisation (SEO), eg programmatic pages, front-end performance, best practices
• Experience designing and running experiments
• Experience developing CI / CD and deployment pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS / Google Cloud, Jest)

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary of £90,000 to £110,000 depending on experience & skills
• 36 days of annual leave, this includes the UK bank holidays but you can take them whenever suits you
• A 4-week paid sabbatical for every 3 years you work with SME (this is in addition to your annual holiday allowance)
• In addition to your salary, we also offer Share Options, so everyone can benefit from our success
• Bonus scheme
• Private medical & life insurance
• ��500 annual learning & development budget
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• Company pension scheme, with the option to opt into the salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Equipment budget for equipment you might need to do your job brilliantly
• Flexible working hours: We don’t expect (or want) you to spend every waking hour at work. Our general working hours are 9-6pm, however we have a company-wide principle around Core Hours, which is 10-4pm and you can work at times that suit you and your team
• Remote working: we’re UK based but you can work from your home or wherever you want