Lead Engineer, Save My Exams

• You’d enjoy shipping features and products that directly help millions of students across the world
• You have an experiment-first mindset, wanting to ship quickly and learn quickly
• You’re at home working across the whole stack, from creating delightful frontend experiences to improving our testing and deployment pipeline
• You thrive in small, cross functional teams, working in close collaboration with other Engineers, Product Managers and Designers
• You enjoy working in a relatively small company, and the ambiguity, pace and opportunity that comes along with it
• You are excited to help other engineers grow in their roles; both through directly managing them as well as setting a helpful and positive example in the wider team
• Strong professional experience developing and operating web applications using a mix of frontend and backend technologies
• Experience managing people
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• User centricity and an attitude of taking responsibility for the product and code you ship to our students
• An understanding – and balanced opinions – of non-functional requirements including accessibility, performance, testing, usability and security
• Experience with Git and GitHub

Desirable

• Save My Exams is a rapidly growing EdTech business on the lookout for an ambitious Lead Engineer to join our Acquisition Squad. We are an exciting, customer-obsessed, remote-first startup that is improving the lives of millions of students every year
• Over the next 12 months, you’ll:
• Ship and own impactful features and experiments as part of a cross functional product squad to drive organic traffic, SEO and user growth
• Manage at least one engineer, helping them to grow and learn
• Work closely with the other engineering leads to define the technical architecture and strategy
• Improve our existing codebase to fix any issues and keep it in line with best practices and new technologies
• Understand our business, our students, and our content, allowing you to use your judgement to make autonomous decisions
• Collaborate across teams to identify, prioritise and solve problems iteratively
• Play an active role in our code review process, reviewing code from your team and others, and making it easy for others to review the code you write
• Write and maintain tests throughout our codebases

• Here’s an overview of our hiring process, so that you know what to expect. We aim for a fast and straight-forward process
• First interview with an Engineering Manager
• A take home code task with a focus on code review, this should take up to four hours
• A second interview with our CTO
• 15 minute chat with the CEO