Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Implement features and resolve issues across CEA's existing products.

• Collaborate with CEA teams to identify technical deficiencies and develop internal tools.

• Actively enhance online products.

• Deliver reliable, maintainable production code while addressing high-priority bugs.

• Gather pertinent metrics and analytics data for non-technical staff.

• Engage in the weekly on-call rotation and respond to urgent matters.

• Maintain and enhance infrastructure, monitoring, deployments, and testing.

• Identify and address crucial developer-experience challenges.

• Make cost-effective decisions regarding technology and services.

• Contribute to various projects, including the EA Forum Next.js migration, EA Opportunities Board, courses, EA Funds AI processes, analytics infrastructure, and virtual products.

• Report to the incoming Head of Digital Product.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong full-stack engineering background; capable of independently building and maintaining products that encompass frontend, backend, databases, DevOps, and third-party integrations.

• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Postgres.

• Quick adaptability to new technologies.

• Competence in writing suitable tests for new functionalities.

• Impact-driven: collect data, assess work, and iterate swiftly.

• Autonomy to take ownership of the technical aspects of projects from start to finish.

• Experience utilizing AI coding agents and discerning their output verification.

• DevOps experience in provisioning servers and databases for sites with hundreds of thousands of active users.

• Capability to mitigate adversarial bot attacks and establish sensible, secure caching rules.

• Ability to prioritize tasks based on organizational strategy and provide realistic timelines.

• Product-oriented thinking that combines user-experience intuition with targeted analytics data.

• For Senior level: proven track record of owning the technical direction of a significant project.

• For Senior level: history of delivering production work that has had a meaningful impact on real users.

• For Senior level: skill in translating broad objectives into quarterly OKRs and contributing to team-level technical direction.

• Preferred: ability to work in time zones between US Eastern Time and CET.

• Willingness to travel.

🏝️ Benefits

• 10% unconditional 401k contribution.

• Private health insurance.

• Flexible work hours.

• $6,000 annual professional development allowance.

• $6,000 mental health support allowance.

• Extended parental leave.

• Ergonomic equipment.

• 25 days of paid vacation or country-specific time off entitlements, whichever is greater.

• Access to the Oxford, UK office.

• 2-4 annual trips to team retreats and other events, including international trips.