Senior Software Engineer (FE Focus)

Location: Home based within the United Kingdom, with occasional travel to the London office. Candidates must already have the legal right to work in the UK; overseas remote work and relocation are not supported.

Company

hirify.global is a bootstrapped education technology company that provides applied data and digital skills education through its patented EDUKATE.AI learning platform.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery in the Internal Experience pod, from discovery and problem framing through production, iteration, and outcome measurement.
• Work directly with curriculum, operations, and delivery stakeholders to identify root problems and shape effective solutions.
• Contribute to proposals, technical decision records, discovery conversations, and product engineering decisions.
• Use AI tooling for prototyping, agentic coding, and delivery acceleration, while helping the wider team adopt these practices.
• Maintain high engineering standards through TDD, disciplined code review, and a strong focus on quality.
• Coach less experienced engineers and contribute to the evolution of the pod-based engineering model.

Requirements

• Strong frontend expertise, including UX design.
• Experience owning the full delivery lifecycle: problem framing, solution design, production, and iteration.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including test-driven development, code review, and a demonstrable commitment to quality.
• Active use of AI-assisted development for prototyping, agentic coding, and delivery acceleration.
• Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders to shape requirements.
• Strong written communication, including proposals, technical decision records, and stakeholder updates.
• Experience running or contributing to discovery conversations.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, make decisions with incomplete information, and escalate appropriately.
• Ability to collaborate without ego, surface problems early, document thinking, and keep stakeholders informed.

Nice to have

• Professional experience with React or Vue.
• Experience in edtech, regulated industries, or other complex domains.
• Backend engineering knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time schedule of 37.5 hours per week in a home-based UK role with occasional London office travel.
• Pension with 4% matched contributions, salary sacrifice option, private medical insurance, and a health and wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month.
• 25 days of holiday, flexible bank holidays, birthday leave, volunteering leave, and holiday buy-back of up to 10 days annually.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave and an Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated counsellor.
• CPD allowance, quarterly development reflections, company events, socials, and team-building activities.
• Work in a bootstrapped, values-driven edtech business with a social impact mission and an AI-focused engineering culture.