Senior Software Engineer (Technical Lead) - Mobile
Perlego, United Kingdom
Job Description
At Perlego, there's 60 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. We need your help to get us to an ambitious, yet attainable 110 by the end of the year. 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 4 years our goal has been to support students across the UK amp; Europe to access quality books. The next stage of Perlego is two fold: 1) expand our support to students globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.
What we’re looking for
A Senior Mobile Engineer with experience in React Native, and native mobile software development. You'll be joining our mobile squad, with a goal focusing on creating consistent high-quality user experiences.
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 part of our content squad providing technical leadership for a cross-functional team.
Requirements
What you’ll do
You will provide technical leadership and mentoring within our mobile squad, designing, implementing, testing and documenting solutions to help the squad achieve its goal.
You will actively develop, and supervise the development of the mobile application code base utilising React Native and Native mobile application code (Swift / Java) where appropriate.
You will own the solutions design of Perlego mobile applications and contribute to distributed AWS serverless systems using Node.js application back-ends.
You will assist the squad in implementing and monitoring engineering standards.
You will participate in Scrum meetings, Retrospectives and engaging in Agile processes and Test Driven Development.
With the squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilising test-driven development (Jest), continuous integration, code review (GitHub) and servant leadership practices.
It’s the perfect role for you if you have:
Strong experience with writing performant, high quality React Native applications.
A strong understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST amp; object-oriented programming or functional programming.
A strong understanding of performant mobile application architecture.
Strong experience with modern Javascript, development techniques and tooling.
Experience working with native mobile application technologies including one of (Java/Objective-C/Swift).
An understanding of Relational Database Design and NOSQL Databases
Experience working with Cloud computing providers.
Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD
4+ years of commercial experience as a software engineer
It’s a plus if you have:
Degree - preferably in a computing related subject
Experience in a startup environment
Have a general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!Benefits
Benefits include:
Flexible
Like many, we’ve adapted our flexible work policy off the back of this year. We offer the option for you to choose to work from home or the office. However, we will likely require you to be available to come into the office at least part-time following Covid-19.
Lamp;D budget
There is an annual training budget for everyone's personal development
Base holiday
30 days base holiday (22 days + 8 bank holidays)
Christmas break
In addition to your base holiday - the office will be shut for certain days over the Christmas holidays to allow everyone to have a break
Compensation
Competitive salary and discretionary share options
Cycle to work scheme
Perlego will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months
Wellbeing subsidy
Subsidy towards your choice of: gym or Vitality health insurance
Subsidised social activities
Encourage everyone in the team to hang out so we have regular team socials and activities