What You'll Get
At Perlego, we believe in the key role you will play to achieve our shared mission. You'll belong to a culture of dreamers, team players, and avid learners with a flexible, value-based approach. Here, you can become your best self, and through your talent, make a real impact in the world of education.
What We Do
At Perlego, there are almost 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. We believe access to good quality affordable learning unlocks potential. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.
- We recently expanded our library to make over 1 million books affordable for learners.
- We earned a 100% Gold ASPIRE rating for accessibility.
- We reached over 15 million people.
The next stage of Perlego is twofold: 1) expand our support to students and publishers globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and educators teach more effectively.
What We're Looking For
A Software Engineer with experience in Python, AWS, and a modern Framework like Flask, Node.js, FastAPI, or similar. You'll be joining our Publishing Partners squad, focussed on providing the best experience to publishers in the industry. From onboarding new publishers and activating their content on our platform, to boosting their content's discoverability, and finally providing them the payment, inventory, and usage information they need.
How We Work Together
We organize ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common data-driven goal. This role will be part of our Publisher team, which contains two closely-aligned squads, and consists of 9 team members: 2 Technical Leads, 3 Engineers, a QA Engineer, a Product Manager, a Content Onboarding Specialist, and a Content Operations Specialist.
What You'll Do
You will work in a self-organizing team in our product ecosystem providing technical development skills (Python/AWS) within the squad, co-solutioning and getting hands-on implementing the solutions to help your squad achieve its goal.
You will contribute to the design of distributed AWS cloud systems, Serverless Python, or Node.js application back-ends. With your squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilizing test-driven development (Pytest/Jest), continuous integration (AWS), and code review (GitHub).
You will help build and maintain processing pipelines in Python to transform data from our suppliers in order to make the content available to our users quickly and reliably, and data from our platform to make sure publishers receive the right revenue, helping troubleshoot any issues that arise. This will require a good understanding of Python, Bash, Node, and several AWS services (such as Lambda, S3, Step Functions, Fargate).
You and your cross-functional squad will look after application features from inception to production working with customers and business stakeholders to bring them to life and support them in production.
Requirements
- Experience with Python programming and Bash scripting
- Experience in implementing back-end systems using a modern framework such as Flask, Django, FastAPI, or Node.js
- Experience working with Cloud computing providers (AWS) and strong Linux familiarity
- Experience working with Relational Database Design and NoSQL Databases
- An understanding of architectural practices including: Microservices, REST, object-oriented & functional programming
- Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD
- Several years of commercial experience as a software engineer
- Experience working with non-technical stakeholders and the ability to boil down complex technical problems and make them easy to understand
It's a plus if you have:
- Experience with Javascript/Typescript
- Experience with React or a similar Javascript framework
- Experience in a startup environment
- Have a general interest in books, reading, and always learning new things!
Benefits
- 🌈 Benefits include:
- ✨ Compensation: The salary available for this role is £58,000
Why should you work at Perlego? Apart from our mission, we foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication, and mutual support. Want to learn more about how we're making learning accessible? Check out our latest impact report.
🏠 Flexible: We're making learning accessible to all and we want our ways of working to be accessible too. If you're based in London, you can work flexibly between home and our impressive office in Chancery Lane. If you're outside of London, then we'll see you at our quarterly socials 💃
At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them. Check out our Flexa profile to find out more.
We are also flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident 🗺
🧠 L&D Budget: We value continuous learning and you will have a personal L&D budget for online courses, subscriptions, or books not on Perlego.
🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities: Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities.
🤓 Learning Time: All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects, or interests that lay outside of their day-to-day job, including Hackathons which bring our entire Engineering team together to work on exciting projects.
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Belonging at Perlego
🌈 We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background.
❤️ We are actively building a diverse team, so we strongly encourage applications from people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
📣 To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing ben@perlego.com