Boclips is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Boclips, a remote company that builds a platform for the global education market. The role involves improving content discoverability and delivery, subscriptions and orders management, payments and account management, among others. The engineering team practices pair programming, test-driven development, and open-minded learning environment.

Requirements

• Vast experience building applications with React and TypeScript
• Happy to work across technology stack
• Think in terms of holistic problem solving rather than technical implementations
• Proactive, can tackle larger problems and features, deal with ambiguity and can work your way through it
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment
• Open towards Pair Programming and TDD and other Extreme Programming practices
• Open-minded and respectful even when you disagree
• Advocate for writing high-quality code and leaving things in a better state than you found them
• Great communicator in English
• Happy to work within GMT +/- 2 hours with at least 6 hours of overlap with GMT and are based in the UK or Europe

Responsibilities

• Work with other engineers to uncover requirements, and design and develop solutions which push our platform forward
• Improve content discoverability and delivery
• Work on subscriptions and orders management
• Handle payments and account management

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kotlin/Java is a plus but not a must!
• Bonus points if you have experience building ‘microservices’ and using Kubernetes!

Benefits

• Salary £75-90k (if based in UK) or localised equivalent in your country of residence. Dependent on experience
• Discretionary annual bonus dependent on revenue performance (last year was 4%)
• 30 days holiday + public holidays
• Benefits package according to location (UK includes Vitality private health insurance, 4x salary life insurance, 3% employer contribution, option to book hotdesking space using Tally, £500 learning budget, and 16 weeks paid parental leave for the primary caregiver)
• Fully remote — our product team works from anywhere within GMT +/- 2 hours. With at least 6 hours of overlap with GMT