Staff Engineer, Multiverse
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3-5 days a week in office (Paddington, London)
Upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption
Posted today
Upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption
501-1000 employees
Posted today
3-5 days a week in office (Paddington, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To equip the workforce to win in the AI era.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Technical Leadership: A track record of architecting, building, and operating complex, scalable systems. Your experience goes beyond a single team to influencing broader technical domains
- Expertise in Your Craft: Deep knowledge and proficiency across our stack (we use TypeScript, React, Python, Elixir, AWS) and the ability to choose the right tool for the job. Even if you have not worked with these would still love to chat
- Strategic & Collaborative Partnership: You work effectively with peers, stakeholders, and leadership to make critical decisions and drive projects forward
- Mentorship as a Multiplier: Experience formally or informally mentoring other senior engineers and a passion for helping others succeed and grow their skills
- Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Empathy for developer workflows and productivity, while using data-driven insights to set priorities and measure impact
- Passionate about AI: with hands-on experience or deep exposure to integrating LLMs, or intelligent assistants into developer workflows
- Strong empathy for developer pain: capable of translating data and feedback into high-leverage solutions
- If this role excites you but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every point, we’d still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer in Tech Foundation, you’ll be a technical leader and a force multiplier - tackling complex challenges that cut across our core systems
- You’ll focus on modernizing and refactoring our foundational domains, ensuring our core services are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term architecture vision
- You’ll play a key role in evolving our internal developer platform and enhancing the overall developer experience at Multiverse
- Our team builds and maintains the core systems and shared services that every engineer relies on to ship stable, scalable, and efficient products
- We provide standardized infrastructure and modern platforms that enable teams to move fast — while maintaining the flexibility to innovate
- To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a passion for improving developer experience, deep technical insight, and a collaborative mindset
- You’ll help shape our core architecture, refactor key domains, and design scalable systems that reduce friction, integrate AI-augmented workflows, and make development at Multiverse faster, more reliable, and more enjoyable
- Architect & Build Foundational Systems: Combine software engineering practices with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and observability to deliver solutions ranging from infrastructure abstraction to core services used across the company
- Refactor for Scalability & Maintainability:
- Identify areas of technical debt or fragile architecture and lead refactoring initiatives to simplify complex code, improve performance, and enable faster iteration
- Continuously enhance the design of core systems to support evolving business needs without introducing unnecessary complexity
- Define and Drive Technical Strategy: Partner with engineering and product leadership to define the long-term technical roadmap, making critical decisions that will shape the developer experience for years to come
- Solve Ambiguous, High-Impact Problems: Take the lead on our most complex technical challenges, navigating ambiguity to break down large-scale problems into clear, actionable plans for the team
- Elevate the Engineering Bar: Act as a technical mentor and role model for other engineers. You will elevate the team's capabilities through code reviews, design discussions, and by introducing and championing best practices
- Lead Cross-Functional Initiatives: Drive technical alignment and influence outcomes across engineering, product, and design teams, ensuring we build cohesive and powerful solutions
- Champion Innovation & Pragmatism: Explore, prototype, and advocate for new technologies (including experiment with AI-powered automation to enhance how engineers write, test, and deploy code) while balancing speed of delivery with long-term sustainability
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Multiverse is on a mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era. That means helping people at all stages of their career gain the tech, data, and leadership skills needed to thrive in an age of rapid automation and AI transformation.
Multiverse positions itself as the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption, partnering with over 1,500 companies across the UK and US (including Google and Facebook) to deliver a new kind of learning. This approach is grounded in applied, work-based training designed to deliver measurable outcomes. And these apprenticeships are open to individuals of any age or career stage and focus on critical capabilities in AI, data, and tech skills.
And the impact is real. Multiverse learners have driven over $2B in ROI for their employers by directly applying their skills to improve productivity and performance. The company's success is not only reflected in its outcomes, but also in recognition, having secured significant funding in 2022, bringing its post-money valuation to $1.7B and cementing its status as the UK's first EdTech unicorn.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
70 people
Gary, Chief Learning Officer
Our mission
Unlocking economic opportunity and potential for individuals and orgs by closing skill gaps through measured, applied, guided and equitable learning.Insights
58% female employees
96% employee growth in 12 months
Trustpilot (3.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Whether that's the content in the course you are teaching of which you're developing a deeper understanding, weekly CPD (continuous professional..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$130m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414m
Company benefits
- Working from abroad
- Free access to Wellhub's Starter, Basic and Bronze plans (free gym + more)
- M-Powered long weekend to refresh and recharge
- A focus on wellbeing with access to Spill therapy support and Employee Assistance Programme
- 24 days holiday, 3 winter shutdown days plus 1 life event day and 2 volunteer days
- Full Medical Insurance coverage through Bupa, and your medical history is disregarded
- Life Insurance coverage through AIG. This benefit pays out 3x your base salary to your beneficiaries
- Our Cycle to Work scheme enables bike ownership with up to 42% savings
- Tech scheme: you can purchase new electronics, including accessories, up to £1,000, and spread the cost through 12 interest-free monthly repayments
- Workplace Nursery benefit is provided by Enjoy Benefits and is there to help employees with the cost of childcare at a nursery setting
Company values
- Solve for Customer Value
- Drivers, not Passengers
- Be Decisive, even in Ambiguity
- AI to Solve Problems
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Euan Blair
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Multiverse, Euan was the UK CEO of Sarina Russo Group, an employment and training provider with more than 1,500 staff worldwide and a turnover exceeding £100 million.
People progressing
Peppa joined Multiverse in 2019 as a Senior Account Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and now serve as the Senior VP/GTM.
People breakdown
13%
11%
6%
68%
2%
Asian
Black or African American
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
Unknown
Last updated on 10 September 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Multiverse
Serena Vaughan (Career Mobility Lead)
- We want to be a leader in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), so we’re working hard to drive the change we want to see in the world, inside Multiverse.
- Everything we do in the DEI space is undertaken with the goal of being representative of the geographies in which we operate – and our apprentice community. Gender diversity has been a long-term challenge for the tech world. We're proud that 55% of our UK Team identify as women, this increases to 64% of our Global Leadership Team (director level and above). We're also proud of our thriving LGBTQQIAAP community, comprising 11% of our UK Team.
- We're committed to improving the diversity of our workforce, at all levels. We continue to invest in early talent through our in-house apprenticeship scheme – something we know is a fantastic route into our organization for exceptional talent from a diversity of backgrounds.
- Last year we identified improving the diversity of our Global Leadership Team (director level+) internally as an area of focus. Steps that we took included introducing robust DEI monitoring processes, rolling out Inclusive Recruitment Training to all staff involved in the hiring, and launching our first internal, Global Leadership Accelerator program.
- We’re proud that in the last 12 months, the representation of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds at director+ levels, globally, has increased from 6% to 19%. This is good progress but we still have work to do and are committed to building a leadership team that is representative of our colleagues and of the communities we serve.
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