Backend Engineer, Memrise
Apache Kafka, 3 Month Contract
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Language learning system
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Language learning system
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
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21-100 employees
Company mission
Memrise's mission is to turn learning into a recreational activity.
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Company mission
Memrise's mission is to turn learning into a recreational activity.
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-20% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Memrise's USP is that their content adapts to users’ needs as they progress through their lessons. They were originally a general learning platform but saw the importance of focus, so narrowed down to languages.
They have built the service to work well on desktop and mobile, which is another differentiator that has enabled them to build a loyal customer base. Apple showed off Memrise during a WWDC event, helping create publicity for the product.
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Benefits
- Share options, so you can retire on an island
- Generous Learning and Development budget for training, conferences, books and L&D leave
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Flexible working options (time-wise, plus we have standing desks)
- Private health insurance with Vitality, and related perks (50% off a Virgin and Nuffield Health Gym memberships)
- Dental Insurance with Unum
- Quarterly hackathons
- Language classes with in-office and virtual tutors
- Pet friendly office and pet-petting colleagues
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Health insurance
Company values
- Candour - Communicate frankly, with trust and kindness
- Gumption - Get things done. Solve your own problems wherever you can. Ship great work fast
- Generosity - Be generous with your listening, with your time, with your intellectual energy, with your kindness, with yourself
- Irreverence - Rejoice in your genius. Be brilliant. Follow your enthusiasm. Be curious. Challenge everything
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2018
$15.5m
SERIES B
Dec 2012
$5.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $21.8m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Ed Cooke
(Executive Chairman)Studied Psychology at Oxford University. Became a "Grand Master of Memory" and spent 7 years researching and writing about memory techniques.
Ben Whately
(CPO)Graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Experimental Psychology and after starting their own company has been working on bringing language learning to millions with Memrise.