Senior Software Engineer (Kotlin, Flutter, React)

at  Glean

Hi we’re Glean. We make study software that improves your confidence and ability to learn.

• 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 2026.

ABOUT US

Glean empowers learners with the confidence and ability to build useful knowledge in an age of information overload. Our inclusive learning technology is used by 100,000s of students to gain 21st century learning skills with a proven note taking process. We aim to reduce waste by helping learners to get more value from working with spoken language.
Our mission is to challenge how the world thinks about learning so that it’s more accessible, productive, and purposeful for all learners. Join our values-driven and growing team if you’re excited by our goal to change a million lives for the better

THE ROLE OF SENIOR ENGINEER:

Glean are looking for a talented, passionate Software Engineer who wants to be part of a small, beautifully formed and growing engineering team. We are focussed on pragmatic delivery with quality at the centre of everything we do. We use a mixture of front-end (TypeScript, React), back-end technologies (JVM / Kotlin), and mobile (Flutter) technologies with an automated build pipeline (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm). We are trusted by the business to own our technology stack and processes and repay this trust by delivering regularly and predictably. We aspire to be the best engineering team we can be, by constantly asking, “given what we know now, is there anything we should change?”.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

As a Senior Software Engineer your role involves collaborating in a multi-disciplinary squad to build, implement and support software that brings value to our users and customers while aligning to our Engineering Principles. Reporting to an Engineering Line Manager, your responsibilities include:

RESPONSIBILITIES - TECHNICAL

• Craft clean and efficient code based on requirements.
• Create maintainable code.
• Focus on testability of delivered solutions.
• Integrate software components and third-party tools.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Recommend and execute technical improvements.
• Learn and develop your technical expertise in areas relevant to Glean.
• Support releases as they progress through test environments to production (live) environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES - INTERPERSONAL

• Foster a fun, safe environment for engineering based upon trust, collaboration and respect.
• Mentor other engineers when you have domain expertise that they have yet to acquire.
• Passionate views, loosely held - argue your point of view passionately but be willing to accept that the needs of others or the group or the business may mean that other approaches are adopted.
• Assume we are all well intentioned and want the best for Glean.

NOT QUITE THE RIGHT ROLE FOR YOU HOWEVER YOU’D LOVE TO BE A PART OF GLEAN’S JOURNEY?

Let’s connect! Reach out to recruitment@glean.co and we’ll add you to our network, to keep you updated with any future opportunities we think you might be interested in.