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 will be focussed on our Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products. You will be working directly with products that 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. You will have the opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and AI systems to bring powerful features to the hands of our customers and users.
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.
Are proficient in Typescript and bonus points for Python
Have a solid understanding of building well architected and reusable components with React, including best practices around component lifecycle, performance, and state management, or are confident and comfortable with building scalable backend services and managing infrastructure across the AWS stack
Experience building applications powered by GraphQL APIs
Experience working within a microservice-driven environment
Comfortable building robust test suites
Are an AI adopter and can cleary navigate parallel pipelines, agentic tooling and understand the value of building agents around systems-thinking, testing and validation, and not just code-gen
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/Django
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
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 50 employees across the UK, Europe, US, India, and Canada. We’ve been recognised by Flexa, Built In, and Mogul for our culture, benefits, and flexibility
Experiences shared. Decisions made.
Build communities, confidence, and empower life-changing decisions.
We connect university student ambassadors and future students digitally around the world to make more informed decisions about higher education.
Prospective students get information, reassurance and a greater shot at success.
Student ambassadors create connections, gain confidence and get to pay it forward.
And universities attract, engage and retain a diverse student population.
Because shared experience is the most powerful tool for choosing the right path.
