Job Description
At Perlego, there's over 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. In this digital age, we believe that anyone should be able to learn anything at any time. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.
The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.
Over the past 5 years our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. The next stage of Perlego is two fold: 1) expand our support to students globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.
What we're looking for:A Senior Mobile Engineer with experience in React Native, and native mobile software development. You'll be joining our mobile squad, with a goal focusing on creating consistent high-quality user experiences.
How we work together:We organise ourselves into cross-functional squads, with each squad working together on a common data-driven goal. Each team consist of 6-8 team members; a Technical Lead, 3-4 engineers, a DevOps engineer, QA Engineer and a Product Owner.
What you'll do:- You will provide technical leadership and mentoring within our mobile squad, designing, implementing, testing and documenting solutions to help the squad achieve its goal.
- You will actively develop, and supervise the development of the mobile application code base utilising React Native and Native mobile application code where appropriate.
- You will own the solutions design of Perlego mobile application features and contribute to distributed AWS serverless systems using Node.js application back-ends.
- You will assist the squad in implementing and monitoring engineering standards.
- You will participate in Scrum meetings, Retrospectives and engaging in Agile processes and Test Driven Development.
- With the squad you'll bring these solutions to life, writing high-quality code utilising test-driven development (Jest), continuous integration, code review (GitHub) and servant leadership practices.
- Strong experience with writing performant, high quality React Native applications.
- A strong understanding of mobile architectural practices.
- A strong understanding of performant mobile application architecture.
- Strong experience with modern Javascript, development techniques and tooling.
- Experience working with native mobile application technologies including one of (Java/Objective-C/Swift).
- An understanding of Relational Database and NOSQL Databases
- Experience working with Cloud computing providers.
- Experience working in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development, CI/CD
- Extensive commercial experience as a software engineer
⭐️ It’s a plus if you have:
- A degree - preferably in a computing related subject
- Experience in a startup environment
- A general interest in books, reading and always learning new things!