Backend Software Engineer, Unibuddy

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React

MongoDB

CSS

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Node.js

Cypress

Selenium

Apollo

Jest

Mid level

Connecting students with the right higher ed institutions

Job no longer available

Connecting students with the right higher ed institutions

21-100 employees

B2BMarketplaceEducationMarketingSaaSCommunity

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

React

MongoDB

CSS

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Node.js

Cypress

Selenium

Apollo

Jest

Mid level

21-100 employees

B2BMarketplaceEducationMarketingSaaSCommunity

Company mission

Empowering the next generation of students to make the right choice for their future

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Has 2+ years engineering experience ideally with Python, Node or other modern backend languages
Has the ability to scale and work in a large codebase
Enjoys managing complexity and maintaining high performance in a backend system
Takes the time to understand the value of our product and commits to making it a success

What the job involves

You’ll be an essential member of our Engineering team - a community of developers belonging to various squads and chapters across the company
You’ll scale the codebase, hone our best practices, and be an integral part of our major backend re-design involving breaking down our monolith into micro-services
As an engineering team, we are committed, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft
This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up
We enjoy working in a cooperative atmosphere and value new ideas
In our work, we use industry best practices like Scrum, TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature
We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform

Our take

Universities are big, complex institutions that can't afford to invest that much time and effort into their websites. At the same time, universities are facing increasing competition to attract students (it's getting more common to consider apprenticeships, coding bootcamps or go straight into work).

Unibuddy makes it easy for universities to connect with more prospective students to drive applications. Its peer-to-peer setup means the operational effort for the company is low, as current students answer the questions.

Unibuddy has firm goals in mind - partnering up with more institutions internationally to empower more students, grow the size of the company, expand its product range, and above all, Unibuddy wants to be an all-in-one platform - taking care of everything from selecting a programme, to onboarding to post-graduation.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

50% female employees

3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (1.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2021

$20m

SERIES B

Mar 2020

$5m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $32.3m

Company benefits

25 days annual leave plus "end of year shutdown" in the last week of December
Enhanced parental leave
Mental health support with Spill
Floating holidays - option to swap a national or bank holiday day for another holiday that's not nationally recognised
Moving abroad policy - apply to work from anywhere and if eligible you can relocate

Leadership

Kimeshan Naidoo

(CTO)

They previously founded StudentView. They worked as a Software Engineer at Schlumberger for 2.5 years before going to Entrepreneur First.

Diego Fanara

(CEO)

They founded Unibuddy straight after completing their Masters degree at Imperial, with the idea born out of their own frustration in trying to find the right university.

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