
Lead Engineer at Save My Exams. 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.. Reaching more than 4 million users every month, all while being bootstrapped and profitable, we’re looking for an ambitious Lead Engineer to join our team and help drive further growth through our organic channels. . We like to think we are the most exciting tech company in Europe you’ve never heard of, and this role is a unique opportunity to join a profitable EdTech business at a key inflection point.We are passionate about solving challenging and meaningful problems and looking for people who care about making a real difference in the lives of students and teachers. . So, if you’re interested in joining a rapidly scaling, product-led, customer-obsessed business, and having the chance to disrupt a $7tn+ market by improving the lives of millions of students every year, then read on.. Check out our Trustpilot!. The Role. To love this role, here’s the type of person you are:. . 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. . . Your Responsibilities:. 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.. . . 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.. . Nice to-haves:. . Experience working with our favoured tools: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Express, Postgres.. . Experience with search engine optimisation (SEO), eg programmatic pages, front-end performance, best practices.. . Experience designing and running experiments.. . Experience developing CI / CD and deployment pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS / Google Cloud,, Jest).. . Company Location: United Kingdom.