Department:Technology\n\nType of Contract: Permanent\n\nWorking Pattern: Full time\n\nLocation: Remote (GMT +/- 2 hours), with optional London-based workspace\n\nAbout the Role\nSoftware Engineers at FutureLearn work in multidisciplinary product teams, collaborating with designers, other engineers, product managers and stakeholders.\n\nCross-team collaboration is encouraged, and teams are flexible with people moving between them as needs change, so there's plenty of scope to become familiar with the whole platform.\n\nWe work in short sprints & regularly share, reflect on and iterate on our work. This helps us focus on shipping small, iterative changes and responding quickly to changing business or user needs.\n\nOur platform uses the Ruby on Rails web framework along with the React JavaScript library with Typescript, and we use unit, integration and acceptance tests to drive design and keep everything working. Every engineer has the ability to deploy, and we deploy multiple times per day to a large-scale system on AWS, supported by our Site Reliability Engineers.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nAs a software engineer at FutureLearn you’ll collaborate in a multidisciplinary product team to deliver working software that has an impact on your team’s metrics. This will include writing Ruby and JavaScript to deliver new features for our users, as well as refactoring our codebase to make it more pleasant and productive to work on.\n\nYou’ll be comfortable writing modular code and thinking about how your work fits into the big picture, and collaborating with our data engineers to make use of our reporting and analysis.\n\nYou’ll have strong communication skills, and be comfortable discussing problems and solutions with your team-mates. You’ll be asked to give your input & ideas to help make decisions and shape features via design sprints, planning, story mapping and other product development activities.\n\nYou’ll enjoy learning, teaching & sharing your experience with your colleagues in various ways; we encourage code review, pairing, mentoring, giving (and watching!) regular lightning talks, and getting & giving regular feedback.\n\nRequirements \n\nWe’re looking for people with experience with Ruby and Rails.\n\nExperience with JavaScript, React in particular, TypeScript, GraphQL and Next.js would also be valuable.\n\nYou’ll have previous experience building, maintaining and deploying a large interactive web application at scale, taking into account performance, security and maintainability.\n\nYou’ll have experience writing high-value tests and have a good understanding of software design principles.\n\nIdeally you’ll also have experience of incrementally improving a large legacy codebase and shaping it into sensible, well-organised modular components, alongside delivering features in a cross-functional agile product team.\n\nBenefits \n\nSalary: £45k-60k (mid) or £60k-75k (senior) depending on experience\n28 days holiday (plus 8 days public holiday)\nBuy & sell up to 5 days holiday\nWestfield Healthcare Cash Plan\nFree access to Calm app\nDedicated personal learning & development budget\nCharity day (volunteer for a charity of your choice)\nCycle to work scheme\nSeason Ticket loan\nFlexible working environment/hours\nPension (4% employer / employee contribution)\n\nAbout FutureLearn\n\nFutureLearn is a leading social learning platform formed in December 2012 by The Open University and is now jointly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group. FutureLearn has over 10 million people signed up worldwide. FutureLearn uses design, technology and partnerships to create enjoyable, credible and flexible short online courses, microcredentials, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that improve working lives. It partners with over a quarter of the world’s top universities, as well as organisations such as Accenture, the British Council, CIPD, Raspberry Pi and Health Education England (HEE). It’s also involved in government-backed initiatives to address skills gaps such as The Institute of Coding and the National Centre for Computing Education.\n\nApplications\n\nPlease use our online form by pressing 'Apply for this job' below, including your CV and a cover letter telling us why you'd like to come work with us.\n\n\nSoftware Engineer interview process\n\nWe do an initial competency interview which consists of some screening questions, like checking your right to work in the UK (unfortunately we can’t sponsor visas), and your experience in our hiring competencies.\n\nThis first interview has two purposes: it's a chance for you to ask questions about how we work, and for us to find out what you're looking for from your next role.\n\nWe'll also be interested to find out more about your curiosity, initiative, technical, communication and teamwork skills. So we'll be interested to talk about things like: your approach to dealing with difficult situations like dealing with conflicting or ambiguous requirements, how you communicate your work with others and how you learn new things and teach others.\n\nThe final stage interview consists of a pairing session with one of our engineers. You'll also get the opportunity to meet a couple of people from the Product org to ask any further questions.\n\nHow we assess candidates\n\nWe use a set of competencies to evaluate candidates throughout the interview process: communication, initiative, teamwork, curiosity and technical skill. You can read more about these in our blog post about our hiring framework.\n\nRecruitment Process\n\nPlease contact [email protected] if you require any reasonable adjustments or alterations to be made, to support you through the recruitment process.\n\nDiversity Statement\n\nWe value all the great benefits that diversity brings and encourage everyone to bring their whole self at work, regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or disability.\n\n\nCOVID19\n\nWe encourage freelancers and people who have been made redundant as a result of COVID-19 to apply for opportunities at FutureLearn. We believe that in these difficult times, good employers have to rise to the occasion and play their part in the community. At FutureLearn, we take care of each other.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **TALENT RURAL GUILT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $50,000 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nRemote (GMT +/- 2 hours), with optional London-based workspace

\nYou are a triple threat (at least!)skilled with Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript (like React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte), and CSS. \n\n \nWe know that headhunters are already beating down your door. We want to earn our right to keep you every single day. \nHey, my name is Calvin, and I know how you feel. \nBecause... \nEven though I am the founder of the successful online platform Simplero.com andmight I addIve been blessed with a wonderful staff of intelligent and kind people from all over the globe, things were not always like this. \nI spent many a dark hour figuring out why being awkward in the company of other human beings made me become great at developing software. \nPart of that is probably that being broken and alone is a good motivator for developing skills as a programmer. \nBut for many other things in life? \nNot so much. \nAnyway, today Im happy to report that I enjoy the best of both sides: \nThe light side of having mastered the art of focus and logical thinking. \nAND... \nHaving great relationships and being able to build a strong organization with an incredible team and massive growth potential. \nBut alas. \nA dark and evil power is upon us. \nAnd this \n...is where you enter the story. \nYou will be the Superman who is called upon to hammer the villains back into the abyss from whence they came. \nOops. I got carried away...I do that. \nThe truth is, we have an amazingand shockingly smallengineering team. Im eager to add a few exceptional people who can help in our fight against evil. \nI mean that part by the way. Jokes and corny comic book metaphors aside...what were doing is important. Were out to change the world, and we need your help. \nSo what do you say..? \nDo you want to play, or dont you? \nUnder this youll find the usual features and benefits, but dont let that keep you from raising your hand if you feel a connection after reading this. \nYour friend in the good fight, \nCalvin Correli\nCEO and founder of Simplero\n\n\nWhats in it for you:\n\n * Changing lives at scale. Making the tools that empower experts to make a living teaching others is seriously high-leverage work.\n * Be part of a high-autonomy, high-accountability, fully-remote team.\n * Show exactly what you created AND know exactly how many customers benefit from it how often.\n * With a development team rarely larger than 2 people, we created what other companies need armies to make, and we'll teach you how to do it yourself. Welcome to the 100x club!\n * Know how great it feels when you make a customers day. Youre not locked in a room 4 floors away from anyone who talks to a customer: youll see the impact of each bug fix, surprise and delight tweak, and feature.\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * 4 weeks of mandatory vacation per year. We cant force you to have a good time, but please, please shut off Basecamp.\n * Access to hundreds of hours of training material, books, workouts, etc.. For just about anything you want to learn about Internet business, personal growth, software developmentif its not already in our virtual library, just ask.\n * Personal and professional coaching. Who do you want to be? How do you want to grow yourself and your career?\n \n\n\n\nWhat sets Simplero apart:\n * No VCs. No outside funding. No exit strategy. We do it because we love it today, not because we hope to make out like bandits in the future.\n * We're profitable and have been in business for 10 years. It's a solid, stable, proven company, product, and model, not some fly-by-night operation or risky gamble.\n * We have 2,000 active customers. Our customers have made $160,000,000 using Simplero. Were the real deal.\n * We're founded by a developer, so you've got deep technical understanding and support all the way to the top.\n * We solve real problems for real people that they're happy to pay us real money. We sign off each day knowing we made a difference in someone's life.\n * We do things differently from other companies. You'll see. We laugh a lot. We breathe. We care about our people. We support you on your journey.\n \n\n\n\nAbout Simplero\nSimplero is a freedom machine: It lets our customers escape corporate America and create a living doing something that excites them, independent of time and place.\nSimplero is a business machine: It runs our customers businesses so they can focus on transforming lives, on connecting with their own customers, and on their own spiritual journey.\nSimpero is a transformation machine: The lives of our customers and their customers are forever transformed through building their business and living on Simplero. Each interaction with Simplero lifts their vibration.\nSimplero is a well-oiled machine: The software and the company as a whole runs incredibly smoothly. We compete against much larger competitors by being incredibly effective and efficient. \nSimplero was founded by and is led by Calvin Correli, whos a very talented developer himself. He has been programming since he was a kid, and has been on Rails since the very beginning.\nSimplero is a Software as a Service platform for small business and solopreneurs. It allows customers to sell online courses in everything from business, marketing, and how to rent your house on AirBnB, to yoga and meditation and how to live a happy life.\nWe have an incredible, dedicated and brilliant team and roughly 2000 amazing customers with a collective reach of over 5 million people all over the world, and growing each week \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nYou are a triple threat (at least!)skilled with Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript (like React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte), and CSS. \n\n \nWe know that headhunters are already beating down your door. We want to earn our right to keep you every single day. \nHey, my name is Calvin, and I know how you feel. \nBecause... \nEven though I am the founder of the successful online platform Simplero.com andmight I addIve been blessed with a wonderful staff of intelligent and kind people from all over the globe, things were not always like this. \nI spent many a dark hour figuring out why being awkward in the company of other human beings made me become great at developing software. \nPart of that is probably that being broken and alone is a good motivator for developing skills as a programmer. \nBut for many other things in life? \nNot so much. \nAnyway, today Im happy to report that I enjoy the best of both sides: \nThe light side of having mastered the art of focus and logical thinking. \nAND... \nHaving great relationships and being able to build a strong organization with an incredible team and massive growth potential. \nBut alas. \nA dark and evil power is upon us. \nAnd this \n...is where you enter the story. \nYou will be the Superman who is called upon to hammer the villains back into the abyss from whence they came. \nOops. I got carried away...I do that. \nThe truth is, we have an amazingand shockingly smallengineering team. Im eager to add a few exceptional people who can help in our fight against evil. \nI mean that part by the way. Jokes and corny comic book metaphors aside...what were doing is important. Were out to change the world, and we need your help. \nSo what do you say..? \nDo you want to play, or dont you? \nUnder this youll find the usual features and benefits, but dont let that keep you from raising your hand if you feel a connection after reading this. \nYour friend in the good fight, \nCalvin Correli\nCEO and founder of Simplero\n\n\nWhats in it for you:\n\n * Changing lives at scale. Making the tools that empower experts to make a living teaching others is seriously high-leverage work.\n * Be part of a high-autonomy, high-accountability, fully-remote team.\n * Show exactly what you created AND know exactly how many customers benefit from it how often.\n * With a development team rarely larger than 2 people, we created what other companies need armies to make, and we'll teach you how to do it yourself. Welcome to the 100x club!\n * Know how great it feels when you make a customers day. Youre not locked in a room 4 floors away from anyone who talks to a customer: youll see the impact of each bug fix, surprise and delight tweak, and feature.\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * 4 weeks of mandatory vacation per year. We cant force you to have a good time, but please, please shut off Basecamp.\n * Access to hundreds of hours of training material, books, workouts, etc.. For just about anything you want to learn about Internet business, personal growth, software developmentif its not already in our virtual library, just ask.\n * Personal and professional coaching. Who do you want to be? How do you want to grow yourself and your career?\n \n\n\n\nWhat sets Simplero apart:\n * No VCs. No outside funding. No exit strategy. We do it because we love it today, not because we hope to make out like bandits in the future.\n * We're profitable and have been in business for 10 years. It's a solid, stable, proven company, product, and model, not some fly-by-night operation or risky gamble.\n * We have 2,000 active customers. Our customers have made $160,000,000 using Simplero. Were the real deal.\n * We're founded by a developer, so you've got deep technical understanding and support all the way to the top.\n * We solve real problems for real people that they're happy to pay us real money. We sign off each day knowing we made a difference in someone's life.\n * We do things differently from other companies. You'll see. We laugh a lot. We breathe. We care about our people. We support you on your journey.\n \n\n\n\nAbout Simplero\nSimplero is a freedom machine: It lets our customers escape corporate America and create a living doing something that excites them, independent of time and place.\nSimplero is a business machine: It runs our customers businesses so they can focus on transforming lives, on connecting with their own customers, and on their own spiritual journey.\nSimpero is a transformation machine: The lives of our customers and their customers are forever transformed through building their business and living on Simplero. Each interaction with Simplero lifts their vibration.\nSimplero is a well-oiled machine: The software and the company as a whole runs incredibly smoothly. We compete against much larger competitors by being incredibly effective and efficient. \nSimplero was founded by and is led by Calvin Correli, whos a very talented developer himself. He has been programming since he was a kid, and has been on Rails since the very beginning.\nSimplero is a Software as a Service platform for small business and solopreneurs. It allows customers to sell online courses in everything from business, marketing, and how to rent your house on AirBnB, to yoga and meditation and how to live a happy life.\nWe have an incredible, dedicated and brilliant team and roughly 2000 amazing customers with a collective reach of over 5 million people all over the world, and growing each week \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n