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Senior Software Engineer @ Exam Papers Plus

Bowling Green Lane 25, FinsburyOnsiteFull-time
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Salary: £55,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements: Three or more years as a full-stack engineer, with at least some of that time at a senior level.Strong TypeScript experience across our stack, including pnpm and Turborepo, React 19 with TanStack Start, Router and Query, Tailwind CSS, Prisma and PostgreSQL (Supabase), Better-Auth and Stripe, deployed to Google Cloud Run via GitHub Actions with Terraform-managed infrastructure.Comfort with AI-assisted development and experience using tools like Cursor or Claude in a day-to-day workflow.A track record of shipping quality code quickly while balancing velocity with standards.A pragmatic approach, making sensible trade-offs between perfect and good enough, and focusing on what matters most for the user.Ownership and the ability to see work through without constant oversight.Clear communication skills, including explaining technical decisions well, giving and receiving feedback, and working well with product and design.Experience in edtech, learning platforms, student data, or educational workflows would help.You must be based in the UK with the right to work here. Responsibilities: Build and ship features across our learner and content platforms, taking work from spec through to production.Use AI tools such as Cursor and Claude to accelerate work while validating that code quality, security, and performance meet our standards.Follow and help uphold our engineering practices, contributing to code reviews and writing automated tests to avoid technical debt.Work alongside our Lead Engineer and other Engineers, pairing when useful, sharing knowledge, and helping less experienced colleagues get unstuck.Contribute to design and architecture discussions for new features, flagging trade-offs and suggesting pragmatic solutions.Deliver significant features each sprint to a high standard without adding technical debt.Write well-tested code, provide thoughtful reviews, and help catch bad patterns before they land.Become a go-to person for other Engineers and take on complex work with confidence.Contribute to technical decisions that make the codebase simpler or faster to work in.Use AI tools effectively and reliably validate what they produce, helping the team do the same. Technologies: AICloudCSSCursorGitHubLESSpnpmPostgreSQLPrismaReactSecurityTerraformTypeScriptNestJSNodeJS More:

Exam Papers Plus is one of the UKs best-known names in 11+ and high-stakes exam preparation, trusted by over 100,000 families. We have built a large bank of exam resources mapped to subject, question type, skill, and difficulty, and recently launched a learning platform that adapts to each childs learning profile and presents that material in a guided way for children and parents. This is a permanent, full-time, hybrid role with two days a week in our Clerkenwell, London office. The role offers a salary of £55,000 to £65,000 depending on experience, plus 28 days holiday, a 5% employer pension contribution, and eligibility for the group bonus scheme.

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