Senior Software Engineer

Hi 👋 we’re Genio. We create beautifully simple learning tools that boost knowledge, skills, and confidence.

• We’re a SaaS scale up and one of the fastest growing tech companies in the North.
• There’s 100+ of us around the UK with our HQ in Leeds.
• Our software is award-winning and used by 100,000s of students at over 800 universities & colleges worldwide.
• We’re growing so we can achieve our mission to support 1 million students to become better learners by 2030.

As a Senior Engineer, your role will involve driving the design and implementation of software, solving complex technical challenges, mentoring junior engineers and collaborating within and outside of your squad to ensure the development of scalable, high quality solutions in alignment with Genio’s goals and Engineering Principles.

Technology at Genio is a cross‑functional function made of Engineering, Product, Product Marketing, User Experience, Customer Experience and Data. This filters down to our product squads where we have at least one team member from each discipline working together to build the best product for our users and customers.

You’ll be joining one of four stream‑aligned squads;
Buyer Admin & Distribute (internally known as BEAR), Buyer HE solution (known internally as Loch HESS), Note‑taking (known internally as GOAT), Learning (known internally as Egg).

You’ll work closely with the whole Engineering team, and you can learn more about the Leadership team here. You’ll be managed by one of the Engineering Line Managers;
Natasha (owns a dog called Bailey), Bruce (makes the most of our remote policy, a man with a large vocabulary), Charlene (owns a sausage dog called Spud), or Mark (Nomad policy champion, Genio Pride organiser).

Heading up the line managers is Mala, Head of Engineering. If you want to know more about joining Genio, you can hear from Mala here.

• Software development, test and deployment support
• Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable and efficient software solutions.
• Craft high quality, maintainable and testable code.
• Improve code quality by participating in and leading code reviews.
• Ensure testability remains a core consideration throughout the development process, leading design of features that facilitate automated testing.
• Technical problem solving & architecture
• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Contribute to and influence decisions to improve system performance and reliability.
• Advocate for and implement software following Genio’s engineering principles. Learn about our hack week here.
• Collaboration & leadership
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX Designers and engineers to refine requirements to deliver impactful solutions.
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions and decision making within the squad.
• Foster a culture of open and honest communication, sharing timely updates on progress, issues and blockers with the squad and stakeholders. You can find out more about the recent Engineering away day here.
• Foster a fun, safe environment for engineering based upon trust, collaboration and respect. Learn more about maximising team value here.
• Mentorship & knowledge sharing
• Support less experienced engineers to foster technical growth, through pairing or mentorship.
• Share knowledge and advocate for continuous improvement through tech talks, documentation and code reviews.
• Contribute to improving engineering processes and team efficiency.
• Expertise in object‑oriented and/or functional programming
• Proficiency in Kotlin for server‑side development.
• Working knowledge of Flutter framework and dart programming language for mobile applications
• Proficiency in SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL) and experience with No
  
  SQL
• Strong understanding of best practices in automated testing, continuous integration, automated deployment, and code quality
• Ability to mentor others, foster trust and advocate for a positive team culture
• Willingness to learn, develop new skills, and support other engineers in continuous improvement
• Strong communication skills, with "passionate views, loosely held" – regularly articulates ideas clearly while remaining open to other perspectives
• Adept at debugging…