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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42Mw==). 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

\nPrincipal Software Engineer\n\nLocation: Flexible (Boston/Eastern Time Zone preferred)\n\nPosition is available: Immediately\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nWe are seeking a full-time Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering Teamand help build products that support Achievement Network’s (ANet’s) mission. The ideal candidate will be passionate about cutting-edge development technologies and best practices, excited by technical challenges, and motivated to deliver software that impacts educational success. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this person will play a key role in crafting and implementing a technology vision for the organization.  \n\n ANet is flexible to remote working with appropriate experience and a history of successfully collaborating with and mentoring other developers remotely. Monthly travel to ANet’s National Office in Boston will be necessary, so proximity to the New England area and eastern time zone is preferable.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n\n* Partner with talented engineers to lead and define our next generation infrastructure and  application architectures, including strategies to migrate existing applications to modern UI frameworks and micro-services\n\n\n\n\n\n* Drive, design, and implement  system infrastructure solutions, including a shared application shell and integrations with performance profiling, debugging, automated testing, and build systems\n\n\n\n\n\n* Collaborate with peers to quickly develop and deliver updated user-facing applications that are fast,  elegant, and easy-to-use\n\n\n\n\n\n* Keep abreast of new technologies and propose adoption as appropriate\n\n\n\n\n\n* Actively embrace best software development practices and set the bar for high quality code\n\n\n\n\n\n* Mentor and support the development of other engineers, providing them with coaching and learning opportunities to help them grow\n\n\n\n\n\n* Proactively look for ways to help  improve team culture and velocity\n\n\n\n\n\n* Help deliver ANet’s next generation of technology products that support data-driven educational practices and help to close the achievement gap in the underserved communities we partner with\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BRING\n\nIn order to be successful in this role, candidates must demonstrate the following:\n\n\n* You have direct experience architecting, implementing, delivering, and supporting high quality, enterprise-scale web applications using\n\n\n\n* Modern web development frameworks, including Angular and/or React with Redux to manage application state\n\n* Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and microservice-based software architectures written in Java and/or Go\n\n* Performance optimization techniques\n\n* Access control patterns\n\n* You have hands-on experience developing and optimizing system infrastructure to support\n\n* High availability, scalability, performance, and reliability requirements\n\n* Automated unit, functional, and end-to-end regression test suites\n\n* Continuous integration and delivery tools, preferably with dependency-based builds\n\n* You have prior leadership experience\n\n* Defining and adopting best software development practices and patterns across teams\n\n* Performing software design and code reviews for developers across teams\n\n* Mentoring new hires and junior engineers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* You are a team player who motivates and educates colleagues; you enjoy working in a highly collaborative culture\n\n\n\n\n\n* You are skilled in working closely with business partners to build technology solutions that meet the usability and functional needs of internal and external users\n\n\n\n\n\n* You operate comfortably among a highly independent staff with diverse backgrounds\n\n\n\n\n\n* You bring an innovative approach to analyze, evaluate and solve problems\n\n\n\n\n\n* You have a passionate commitment to and a sense of urgency for the support of schools, along with a belief that all students can achieve at high levels\n\n\n\n\n\n* You are motivated by working in an environment where we live out our core values daily and are eager to examine personal archetypes and biases while discussing topics related to race, class, and privilege which relate to ANet’s Advance Equity and People Matter values\n\n\n\n\nIdeal candidates may also demonstrate the following preferred qualifications:\n\n\n* 10+ years of software development experience\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE\n\nEvery student deserves opportunities in life, and every educator committed to providing those opportunities, deserves support. Those beliefs drive us to work alongside schools to support great teaching so that we can work towards guaranteeing that all students are receiving high quality instruction. We partner with over 900 schools - both district and charter - in underserved communities around the country, thus impacting more than 330,000 students. Third-party evaluations confirm that when schools have the right basic conditions in place and partner with ANet, they achieve 6-8 months of additional learning over a two-year period compared to schools not partnering with ANet.\n\nAt ANet we are committed to living out our core values, both across our organization and with our partner schools. We acknowledge that systemic inequities impact student access to opportunities and that in order to ensure educational equity for all students, we must center on the experiences of those from marginalized communities to guide our work. We work to deepen our understanding of how race, class, power and privilege influence the education system as well as influence our own perspectives. To do so,  we provide ongoing learning opportunities through org-wide professional development, affinity groups, working groups, and resource sharing.\n\nIndividuals who join ANet have the opportunity to be part of a dynamic, values driven, and team-oriented organization that is committed to having impact in schools by investing in each other and learning together. We were named as The NonProfit Time’s “Best Nonprofits to Work For” and work tirelessly to foster a working environment where the unique perspectives, backgrounds, and identities of our staff members are valued.\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\nANet offers highly competitive compensation based on prior experience and qualifications as well as comprehensive benefits in order to best support our people. Benefits we offer include: health, dental and vision insurance where ANet pays 80% of the cost of these benefits for employees and their families/domestic partner; 3 weeks of vacation (4 weeks after two years with ANet); 10 paid holidays with paid days off between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays; a paid floating holiday; paid sick & personal days; paid parental leave; retirement plan options; commuter benefits; tuition reimbursement;  flexible spending accounts; short and long-term disability coverage; and basic life and personal accident insurance.\n\nHOW TO APPLY\n\nWe are now accepting applications for this position, which will be reviewed on a rolling basis.  To apply, please click on the blue “Apply” button.  You will then be prompted to complete a brief application and upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter in which you outline why you are interested in working for ANet and how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position.\n\nANet is committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds and gender identities to apply to our positions. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Education, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching, Java, Angular, Travel and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $117,500/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