Software Engineer II - Chat Systems (Fully Remote - Europe)

Unibuddy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Pension matched up to 6%

25 days annual leave + personal day

MacBook provided

Flexible work culture

Job summary

Unibuddy is seeking a mid-level software engineer to work across the full stack on the Unibuddy platform, including web, native, and backend components. You will contribute to Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products to help students and universities engage effectively.

You will work with a modern stack (NestJS, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS) and be part of a team that values accessibility and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript; bonus for Python
• Experience building well-architected, reusable components with React or scalable backend services on AWS
• Experience with GraphQL APIs and microservice-driven environments
• Comfortable building robust test suites and understanding AI tooling in workflows

Skills

Typescript

Python

React

GraphQL

NestJS

AWS

MongoDB

NoSQL

Express

Microservices

Testing

AI tooling

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

RabbitMQ

Serverless

Job description

We’re looking for an exceptional mid-level software engineer with a passion for building great products to join our team. You will gain exposure to the full stack of the Unibuddy platform across web, native, and backend to deliver engaging solutions to our users and customers.
This role will be focussed on our Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products. You will be working directly with products that provide a series of experiences and tools to prospective students to engage with universities, helping them to make the most informed decision in choosing a university, and for university staff and ambassadors to enable positive conversations, valuable data, and ultimately increase yield. You will have the opportunity to work with a modern tech stack and AI systems to bring powerful features to the hands of our customers and users.
At Unibuddy, we are proud to build products that can be used by anyone - so any exposure to building UI that meets WCAG accessibility requirements is advantageous.
Our tech stack includes NestJS, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, and AWS.
We’re keen to hear from you if you meet several of the following:

• Are proficient in Typescript and bonus points for Python
• Have a solid understanding of building well architected and reusable components with React, including best practices around component lifecycle, performance, and state management, or are confident and comfortable with building scalable backend services and managing infrastructure across the AWS stack
• Experience building applications powered by GraphQL APIs
• Experience working within a microservice-driven environment
• Comfortable building robust test suites
• Are an AI adopter and can cleary navigate parallel pipelines, agentic tooling and understand the value of building agents around systems-thinking, testing and validation, and not just code-gen
• Experience building performant, well-architected microservices using common backend frameworks such as Express or Nest
• MongoDB or any other NoSQL database solution and an understanding common design patterns, features and limitations

About You

• Product-minded and user-obsessed
• Demonstrate true ownership of a product - owning its ongoing upkeep, maintenance, performance, and bug resolution
• Curious and eager to learn. We thrive on continuous personal development and regularly showcase new thinking and ideas generated from those in our engineering team
• A team player, happy to teach and be taught by those around you
• AI-onboarded. You’re using AI tooling to accelerate your workflow and automate where necessary

Nice-to-haves

• Experience meeting WCAG accessibility requirements
• React Native experience
• Event-driven systems utilising Kafka, Kinesis, Rabbit MQ
• Serverless architecture
• Exposure to Python and Flask/Django

What Unibuddy offer

• Highly flexible work culture
• Private healthcare
• Life insurance coverage
• Pension matched up to 6%
• Generous time off: 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional special day for a personal occasion (like your birthday, engagement, or wedding), extra days based on tenure, and 4 additional days at the end of the year for a company-wide shutdown
• Enhanced parental leave: Including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Equipment: A MacBook and all the tools you need to do your best work
• Inclusive and supportive culture: We pride ourselves on our diverse team, with 50 employees across the UK, Europe, US, India, and Canada. We’ve been recognised by Flexa, Built In, and Mogul for our culture, benefits, and flexibility