Unibuddy
Software Engineer II - Chat Systems (Fully Remote - Europe)
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About the Role
We’re looking for an exceptional mid-level software engineer with a passion for building great products to join our team. You will gain exposure to the full stack of the Unibuddy platform across web, native, and backend to deliver engaging solutions to our users and customers.
This role will be focused on our Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products. You will be working directly with products that provide a series of experiences and tools to prospective students to engage with universities, helping them to make the most informed decision in choosing a university, and for university staff and ambassadors to enable positive conversations, valuable data, and ultimately increase yield. You will have the opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and AI systems to bring powerful features to the hands of our customers and users.
At Unibuddy, we are proud to build products that can be used by anyone - so any exposure to building UI that meets WCAG accessibility requirements is advantageous.
Our Tech Stack
- NestJS
- Typescript
- Python
- GraphQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
Requirements
- Proficient in Typescript and bonus points for Python
- Solid understanding of building well-architected and reusable components with React, including best practices around component lifecycle, performance, and state management, or confident and comfortable with building scalable backend services and managing infrastructure across the AWS stack
- Experience building applications powered by GraphQL APIs
- Experience working within a microservice-driven environment
- Comfortable building robust test suites
- An AI adopter and can clearly navigate parallel pipelines, agentic tooling, and understand the value of building agents around systems-thinking, testing and validation, and not just code-gen
- Experience building performant, well-architected microservices using common backend frameworks such as Express or Nest
- MongoDB or any other NoSQL database solution and an understanding of common design patterns, features, and limitations
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About You
- Product-minded and user-obsessed
- Demonstrate true ownership of a product - owning its ongoing upkeep, maintenance, performance, and bug resolution
- Curious and eager to learn. We thrive on continuous personal development and regularly showcase new thinking and ideas generated from those in our engineering team
- A team player, happy to teach and be taught by those around you
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Nice-to-haves
- Experience meeting WCAG accessibility requirements
- React Native experience
- Event-driven systems utilizing Kafka, Kinesis, Rabbit MQ
- Serverless architecture
- Exposure to Python and Flask/Django
What Unibuddy Offers
- Highly flexible work culture
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance coverage
- Pension matched up to 6%
- Generous time off: 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional special day for a personal occasion (like your birthday, engagement, or wedding), extra days based on tenure, and 4 additional days at the end of the year for a company-wide shutdown
- Enhanced parental leave: Including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Equipment: A MacBook and all the tools you need to do your best work
- Inclusive and supportive culture: We pride ourselves on our diverse team, with 50 employees across the UK, Europe, US, India, and Canada. We’ve been recognised by Flexa, Built In, and Mogul for our culture, benefits, and flexibility
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