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About Us

We’ve grown at an incredibly fast pace since our launch in 2017. We’re the trusted student-recruitment partner to 600 higher ed institutions in 35 countries worldwide, including the University of Cambridge, King’s College London, Boston University, the University of Southern California, NYU Global Services, HEC Paris, and Erasmus.

About Us

We’ve grown at an incredibly fast pace since our launch in 2017. We’re the trusted student-recruitment partner to 600 higher ed institutions in 35 countries worldwide, including the University of Cambridge, King’s College London, Boston University, the University of Southern California, NYU Global Services, HEC Paris, and Erasmus.

We’ve raised over $33M from top-tier investors, and we’re on course to achieve our mission of empowering 10 million students to make the right choices in their higher ed journey.

What We Are Looking For...

We’re looking for an exceptional mid-level software engineer with a passion for building great products to join our team. You will gain exposure to the full stack of the Unibuddy platform across web, native, and backend to deliver engaging solutions to our users and customers.

This role is primarily focused on the Chat and Chat Widget products which provide a series of experiences and tools to prospective students to engage with universities, helping them to make the most informed decision in choosing a university, and for university staff and ambassadors to enable positive conversations, valuable data, and ultimately increase yield.

Reporting to the squad Tech Lead, you will be working in a cross-functional squad responsible for implementations across a client and server-side stack, with a keen eye for the user journey and their experience using our products. At Unibuddy, we are proud to build products that can be used by anyone - so any exposure to building UI that meets WCAG accessibility requirements is advantageous.

Our tech stack includes NestJS, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, and AWS.

Technical Skills

• Proficient in Typescript
• Deep experience with building well architected and reusable components with React
• Experience building applications powered by GraphQL APIs
• A deep understanding of React best practices including component lifecycle, performance, memoization, hooks, state management, react-testing-library
• Experience working within a microservice-driven environment
• Comfortable with building robust test suites
• Experience building performant, well-architected microservices using common backend frameworks such as Express or Nest
• MongoDB or any other NoSQL database solution and an understanding common design patterns, features and limitations
  
  

• Product-minded and user-obsessed
• Demonstrate true ownership of a product - owning its ongoing upkeep, maintenance, performance, and bug resolution
• Curious and eager to learn. We thrive on continuous personal development and regularly showcase new thinking and ideas generated from those in our engineering team
• A team player, happy to teach and be taught by those around you
• AI-onboarded. You’re using AI tooling to accelerate your workflow and automate where necessary
  
  

• Experience meeting WCAG accessibility requirements
• React Native experience
• Event-driven systems utilising Kafka, Kinesis, Rabbit MQ
• Serverless architecture
• Exposure to Python and Flask
  
  

• Competitive salary
• Highly flexible work culture
• Private healthcare
• Life insurance coverage
• Pension matched up to 6%
• Generous time off: 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional special day for a personal occasion (like your birthday, engagement, or wedding), extra days based on tenure, and 4 additional days at the end of the year for a company-wide shutdown
• Significantly enhanced parental leave: Including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Equipment: A MacBook and all the tools you need to do your best work
• Inclusive and supportive culture: We pride ourselves on our diverse team, with 55 employees across the UK, Europe, US, India, and Canada.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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