We're looking for a passionate, dynamic, and innovative mid backend developer to join our engineering team. If you love creating cool campaigns, are passionate about education and like a challenge - then this is for you!
The essentials:
- Job title: Mid end Dev ops
- Reports to: Head of Engineering
- Contract type: Contract, full time
- Location: Remote / Ukraine / Poland / Moldova / Romania
- Salary: monthly $3000, to $3500 USD monthly depending on experience
- Plus 10% bonus paid quarterly
- Salary is inclusive of annual leave
- Line management: No
- Start date: ASAP
A bit about us:
The Ambassador Platform is peer-to-peer marketing and student recruitment platform for Higher Ed providers. It allows universities and colleges to connect prospective students with their ambassadors via chats, user-generated content, and video.
The impact is pretty cool, and means that, for the first time ever, Higher Ed providers have a simple solution for making the kind of student connections that mean that they can show what life at their institution is really like, helping prospective students make the best choice for their future.
Our technology is used by more than 150 institutions in 20 countries around the world and, to date, has supported millions of interactions between students. You can check out our customers here.
Our culture:
We work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. We operate a 'high trust, high performance, and high transparency' culture. We want everyone in the team to feel empowered to take responsibility and accountability for their own performance and the completion of work, while giving them flexibility for the management of their own time.
We also offer high visibility around progress and outcomes across the company, and everyone is expected and encouraged to highlight areas of improvement. Above all, we value the people we work with, building strong and lasting relationships, and are always friendly, kind and approachable.
The Ambassador Platform has recently been acquired by IDP Education. We still operate fully independently, but with the support of a globally renown company behind us. We are headquartered in the UK and have offices in London, a remote team in Ukraine, and Brisbane. Find out what it’s really like to work with us by chatting to our friendly team and see what we get up to on Linkedin.
A bit more about the job:
The Ambassador Platform is actively seeking a skilled mid Backend developer to join our dynamic team. Our peer-to-peer platform provides a unique space for prospective students to connect with student ambassadors through chat, user-generated content, and video. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to revolutionise the future of education, this role is for you.
About you:
- A minimum of 2.5 years of professional experience in a DevOps or similar role is mandatory.
- Proficient with cloud service providers, with a strong preference for AWS expertise, though familiarity with GCP and MS Azure.
- A solid grasp of contemporary monitoring paradigms is essential, with prior experience in utilising monitoring tools such as Prometheus or New Relic
- Demonstrated experience in constructing and optimising CI/CD pipelines, coupled with a thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Security fundamentals are crucial: expertise in secrets management, data encryption, and network security protocols including VPNs, firewalls/security groups, Web Application Firewalls (WAF), and the distinctions between private and public networks.
- Extensive knowledge and practical experience with Linux-based operating systems, encompassing maintenance and troubleshooting tasks.
- Automation of routine operations, with hands-on experience in at least one configuration management system.
Your Impact:
- Collaborating with developers to setup new servers/tools for optimal deployment.
- Driving enhancements in the CI/CD process to accelerate development and deployment cycles.
- Actively participating in the evolution and troubleshooting of our monitoring systems to ensure robust, real-time operational insights.
- Spearheading security and performance hardening initiatives.
The person we're looking for:
- Nice, friendly, and love working with people
- Experience in the Higher Education sector is desirable
- Experience working for a start-up or scale-up company preferable
- Experience of marketing a SAAS technology product is a nice to have
- Takes ownership of the outcomes, doesn't make excuses, and gets the job done
As standard:
- Flexible & hybrid working with a core hours policy focused on outcomes to maximise your productivity
- A calendar of wellness activities and incentives encouraging physical and mental wellbeing
- Competitive bonus scheme
- Team activities including fundraisers, team trips overseas, lunches
- A best in class Employee Assistance Programme. For you and your nearest and dearest
Want to find out more?
For more information, or an informal chat about the role, please do apply!