Senior Software Engineer, Boclips

£75-90k

Salary applicable to UK applicants only and will be your localised equivalent in your country of residence if outside the UK. + Discretionary annual bonus dependent on revenue performance

React

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Java

Kotlin

Cypress

Prometheus

Jest

Spring

Grafana

Concourse

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

Educational videos for student learning

Job no longer available

Educational videos for student learning

21-100 employees

B2CB2BEducationPublishingContentLearning

Job no longer available

£75-90k

Salary applicable to UK applicants only and will be your localised equivalent in your country of residence if outside the UK. + Discretionary annual bonus dependent on revenue performance

React

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Java

Kotlin

Cypress

Prometheus

Jest

Spring

Grafana

Concourse

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2CB2BEducationPublishingContentLearning

Company mission

Boclips' mission is to make learning more captivating for all students, everywhere.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong full-stack experience
You have vast experience building applications with front-end technologies like React and TypeScript or back-end technologies like Kotlin/Java. Having a mix of both would be great but not required
You are happy to work across technology stack. One day you will find yourself working on the front end but the other day you might be changing one of the backend services. Don’t worry you don’t need to be an expert in all of it!
As a Software Engineer, you think in terms of holistic problem solving rather than technical implementations. You like to understand the business context and anything else that might impact the product
You are proactive. You can tackle larger problems and features, deal with ambiguity and can work your way through it. and can identify problems and provide solutions to them
You thrive in a highly collaborative environment. You are open towards Pair Programming and TDD and other Extreme Programming practices
You are open-minded and respectful even when you disagree
You advocate for writing high-quality code and leaving things in a better state than you found them
Great communicator in English
Bonus points if you have experience building “microservices” and using Kubernetes!

What the job involves

In this role, you will work with other engineers to uncover requirements, and design and develop solutions which push our platform forward
We have no shortage of interesting problems to solve!
You will help us improve content discoverability and delivery, subscriptions and orders management, payments and account management to name just a few
We leverage state-of-the-art technologies and work in an XP manner to deliver our solutions:
We use React on top of TypeScript for our front end
We leverage an array of tools to ensure code correctness and quality — ESLint, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress & Percy, to name a few!
Our backend services are written in Kotlin and Spring Boot
We run our microservices on a Kubernetes cluster (GKE)
We utilise data services from GCP, AWS, Elastic Cloud and MongoDB Atlas
We practise continuous integration and trunk-based development. We commit directly to main reserving Pull Requests for odd times when we don’t pair
We run a pipeline-based continuous delivery system (we use Concourse CI)
We use Prometheus, Grafana. Jaeger and OpsGenie for observability and alerting
Our culture is what sets us apart! We care about people and we care about problems. What does this mean in practice?
No egos thanks!
Pair Programming as much as possible to solve problems together
Test Driven Development to help us design better solutions
An open-minded, respectful, learning-focused environment
Practitioners of “You build it, You run it”
Supported growth and development
Quarterly hackathons

Application process

We’re not into take home tests, we prefer real world collaboration that represents the actual work you would be doing
That’s why we put a strong emphasis on working with the team and working on stories together during our interview process
Initial screen with Rebecca on the talent team
Meet , Head of Engineering
Approx 2 hours of pairing with members of the team solving real problems together
Meet our SVP Technology
Please upload a cover letter letting us know why you are interested in the job and highlighting any experience that may be relevant!

Our take

As educational institutions become increasingly keen to use technical solutions to reach their goals, Boclips has a booming market to compete in. The edtech market is expected to reach $230 Billion by 2028.

Boclips procures and aggregates video content on a simple platform, allowing educational publishers, courseware designers and teachers to easily find and use world-class video content to enhance their learning programmes and more effectively encourage students. Boclips acts as an alternative to consumer-focused video platforms; AI-driven content management system enables users to easily locate the right video for every stage of the school or university curriculum.

The company manages the largest educational video resource in the world, providing access to more than two million rights-cleared clips from over 350 trusted sources, ranging from news programming from The Wall Street Journal to Ted Talks. Customers include courseware developers, EdTech solutions providers and Ministries of Education.

Its 2021 acquisition of Listenwise, the US market leader in curriculum-geared podcasts for grades 2 to 12, and 2023 partnership with education nonprofit OpenStax creates a unique offering of video and audio content for global education providers. Off the back of these partnerships, Boclips will continue to accelerate its growth in the US and worldwide.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jul 2017

$4m

SERIES A

Total funding: $4m

Company benefits

Professional development budget
Annual bonus scheme
Stock options
Work from home opportunities
Private healthcare with Vitality
30 days holiday (exc public holidays)

Leadership

David Bainbridge

(CEO)

Most recently, CEO of Elvis Communications and Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences for the BBC’s Future Media and Technology Division. He has been part of the launch teams for Intel’s IPTV offering in the US, the UK’s Channel 5 and the BBC iPlayer.

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