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Bright Network

Senior Software Engineer

Remote

United Kingdom

£ 90,000 / year

Full Time

22-04-2025

Job Specifications

Join Bright Network as our Senior Software Engineer!

Introducing Bright Network:
At Bright Network, we believe that “talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not”. We're on a mission to change that. As a leading data and tech platform, we’re building the workforce of tomorrow. With over 1 million members, partnerships with 300+ global companies, and £10M+ in venture capital backing, we’re moving fast - having launched into new markets and scaling rapidly.

Our Tech & Product Team play a core role in empowering the next generation with insights, advice and guidance to connect them with leading employers like Amazon, Google, HSBC and many more. Now, we’re searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Tech & Product Team as we head into our next exciting chapter of growth.

The Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have the exciting opportunity to work in our Tech & Product Team (currently a team of 14!), building innovative features that solve real-world problems for our student members and our employer clients. Collaborating closely with your direct team members along with other stakeholders across the company, you’ll be enacting real and meaningful change to students and graduates in the UK and beyond!

Key projects include:
Talent Tracker: Our employer analytics platform built with React, Shadcn, GraphQL API, Prisma, and Elasticsearch
New AI-Driven Project: A greenfield initiative leveraging Vercel AI SDK, TanStack Start, Redis, and more

Our services are deployed on AWS and managed with Terraform. Our architecture evolves as our needs grow, so you'll also have the opportunity to directly influence the direction of our technological choices as we move forward.

What you can expect to work on in your first six months…
Collaborate closely with our Tech & Product team to rapidly bring innovative product ideas to life.
Lead impactful design reviews for cutting-edge systems, championing best-in-class solutions to complex technical challenges
Continuously expand your expertise by mastering the latest technologies and driving innovation within our engineering team

Does this sound like you?
You're a Senior Software Engineer with a solid understanding of building production-quality web applications in TypeScript
You’re comfortable working across the backend and frontend
You have experience leading on the planning, development and deployment of large parts of a Node.js-based system, whilst working closely with and/or mentoring junior team members

What makes our team & culture great?
We’ve worked really hard to build the engineering team and culture that we want to work in, and we all believe we’ve built something special. We are focused on world-class engineering to build high-quality, scalable and user-centred products and platforms.

We work hard to balance our ambitious objectives with our own personal development each sprint. We operate on a “no egos” basis and push for a high-performing team with psychological safety. You’ll have a lot of autonomy and influence on our technology and processes, and will find very little red tape or unnecessary constraints here. Our drive for evidence and data-driven decisions has helped us in creating multiple products that we take a lot of pride in!

What's in it for you, as our future Senior Software Engineer?
We have recently been awarded the Great Place To Work certification, reflecting our commitment to a positive and supportive workplace culture and recognising our focus on employee satisfaction, inclusivity & work-life balance
Join a high-growth and rapidly scaling business – we launched internationally into the German market in 2022 and have further growth planned this year
Incredible progression & development opportunities – year on year approx. 20% of our team receive promotions – you can check the team out on LinkedIn if you don’t believe us!
Enjoy 28 days’ annual leave plus two weeks off during our Christmas Office Closure. This does not include Bank Holidays, either!
Market-leading benefits package: flexible and hybrid working, "work from anywhere" policy, £50 monthly wellbeing budget, enhanced pension contribution via Aviva, private healthcare via Bupa, enhanced parental leave, regular team socials & much, much more!
You’ll be driving forward our mission - upskilling the next generation of future talent and connecting members with opportunities they otherwise simply wouldn’t have access to!

Key Details:
Location: This role could be based in either our Edinburgh office or remote with quarterly travel to our Edinburgh office
Salary: £70,000 - £90,000
Start date: ASAP

Interview Process:
Initial call: Initial 30-minute Zoom call with our Senior Talent Partner
1st round: Technical test followed by a technical interview
Final round: Values & culture interview and final meeting with our Platform CEO

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Commitment:
Equal opportunities for all is a core part of what we do at Bright Network. To this end, we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and endeavour to run a fair and equal hiring process at all times. We assess and recruit candidates based on competency and potential, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability status.

To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, please click here.

About the Company

Welcome to Bright Network. We help the world’s best companies find the talent they need to grow their businesses faster and give the brightest graduates access to the best possible career opportunities. Our mission is to provide better matchmaking between employers and graduates. By combining rich data, technology and analytics with our knowledge and insights, we create highly targeted and personalised experiences, interactions and opportunities to connect students and their future employers. Our goal is to be inclusive ... Know more

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