Software Engineer

• 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 Software Engineer at Genio, you'll be part of a multi-disciplinary, talented team, collaborating to create innovative software solutions that empower our users. You'll be responsible for crafting clean, efficient, and maintainable code, integrating components, and ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. You’ll also pride yourself on following our 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), 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.

Responsibilities - Technical

• Produce clean, efficient code based on requirements.
• Produce maintainable code.
• Focus on testability of delivered solutions.
• Integrate software components and third-party programs.
• 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 Genio.

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 Genio.

• Strong programming skills (object oriented and/ or functional).
• Front end technologies HTML5, CSS and JavaScript frameworks (we mainly use TypeScript and React).
• Mobile technologies especially web-based hybrid apps powered by Capacitor.
• Persistence (mainly SQL, specifically PostgreSQL), some NoSQL.
• Knowledge of best practices in automated testing, Continuous Integration, Automated deployment, code quality etc.
• Proactively leverage AI tools (e.g., code assistants, automated analysis, workflow agents) to enhance development velocity, code quality, and problem-solving effectiveness.

Not every one of the above is essential, but hopefully it gives an idea of what we find useful day to day.

£47,000 - £51,000 per annum

🏖️ 33 days annual leave (Inclusive of bank holidays)

🎄 3 gifted days off at Christmas

💰 EMI Share Options Scheme

🎓 Generous individual learning and training allowance 

⌚ Truly flexible hours to suit when you work best 

💻 Full home working set up and beautiful collaborative office space 

🚗 Free Leeds City Centre office parking

🌴 Nomad working policy with family travel insurance 

🍼 Enhanced 26 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity (fully paid)

🤍 Health cash plan (from glasses to massages) 

💸 6% employer pension contribution

We have a beautiful office space in Leeds and we love it when we get together to collaborate in person. We typically operate a hybrid way of working, however some of our roles support remote working within the UK, if you live more than 50 miles from the office. 

We will discuss ways of working with you at interview however if you have any questions before you apply please reach out to recruitment@genio.co

We’ll review your application and provide a response within 1 week. Even if it’s not the news you’d hoped for, we appreciate it’s good to know either way. 

Ahead of your interviews you will receive a confirmation email outlining who you’ll be meeting and when, anything you’ll need to prepare in advance and any resources we think you might find helpful. 

If we invite you to meet with us for interview, here’s an overview of what the process will look like: 

1. Screening interview with someone in our Recruitment team (30 minutes). 
2. Technical test via Github; you will have 1 week to complete the test when it suits you best. The test isn’t timed. 
3. Pairing exercise (1 hour 15 minutes) with two of our Engineers.
4. Final stage interview which includes a 1 hour culture and values interview, plus a 30 minute interview around your CV and experience. This will be with our Head of Engineering and other members of the team. 

👀 Interested in learning more about a career at Genio? 

Here are a few further resources:

About Genio

Life at Genio

Case studies and user stories

💌 Not quite the right role for you however you’d love to be a part of Genio’s journey? 

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

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