{"job":{"jobId":2420542,"fk_accountId":null,"fk_organizationId":9277,"fk_adminAccountId":null,"title":"Software Engineer","description":"\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Software Engineer<br/>\nCompany: The World University Insights Ltd <br/>\nDepartment: Engineering<br/>\nLocation: Red Lion Square, Holborn, London<br/>\nReporting to: Team Lead – Platform Services<br/>\n<br/>\nTHE COMPANY</strong>\nThe World University Insights Ltd, publisher of Times Higher Education (THE), is the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world. As the company behind the world’s most influential university ranking, and with almost five decades of experience as a source of analysis and insight on higher education, we have unparalleled expertise on the trends underpinning university performance globally. Our data and benchmarking tools are used by many of the world’s most prestigious universities to help them achieve their strategic goals.\n\nFor more information on Times Higher Education please visit <a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://www.timeshighereducation.com\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://www.timeshighereducation.com</a>\n\n<strong>THE ROLE</strong>\nTHE has a lot of ambition to realise it’s potentials, we have grown over the recent years and are still growing our company, brand, user base and products. We are investing greatly into several areas, including technology; and we are creating new technical capabilities within our company that will power our current and future digital products.</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The Platform Services team aims to help the company move away from isolated monoliths towards a platform and data first approach by championing a service first approach to solving problems across all engineering teams. We help to refactor existing software to extract shared and reusable services, deliver new shared capabilities via APIs, or rethink key products to deliver them in a more strategic way.\n\nThe ideal candidate has mix of frontend, backend, and data skills and is motivated to help redesign and rethink problems to get the best possible outcome for the end user. We work closely not only with other Engineering teams to understand their needs, but also the wider business in order to understand what the real problem is, so a keen understanding of how to understand and iterate requirements is key.</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>THE REWARDS</strong>\nTHE offer a comprehensive benefits package to all its permanent staff. \nWe have multiple product-orientated (vertical) teams within Engineering including Data, Content, Student, Hiring Solutions and Platform Services who work as part of well-formed squads that include Product Managers, QA, UX/Design and Business Analysts. In addition, we have several strategic technology groups (horizontals) which are championed by senior engineers and subject matter experts, this allows them to build capabilities and drive technology to solve technical challenges across the business.\n\nThis is an exciting time for THE and our software development teams (Product, Engineering and Delivery) as we’re building our teams and reshaping how we work together to build a world leading team.\nWe’re looking for engineers who are excited by technology, who can give knowledge sharing sessions on various subjects, mentor others and who are interested in promoting an inclusive and collaborative culture.\n\nWe want our software delivery teams to be excited to come to work and passionate about what we can achieve as a company and our leadership team is committed to making this a reality.\n\n<strong>ESSENTIAL SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Proven ability in delivering high-quality deliverables to tight timescales. </li>\n<li>Proven experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar role</li>\n<li>Familiarity with Agile development methodologies</li>\n<li>Ability to work closely with other team members and both technical and non-technical members of the company</li>\n<li>An understanding of software design and test methodologies</li>\n<li>In depth knowledge of Javascript/Typescript and frameworks/systems (e.g. NodeJS, React and Redux)</li>\n<li>Working knowledge of GIT version control</li>\n<li>Working knowledge of CSS and SASS</li>\n<li>Experience working with data technologies such as Mongo, Postgres (or other SQL)</li>\n<li>Ability to create and work with various APIs</li>\n<li>Excellent communication skills</li>\n<li>Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude</li>\n<li>Being independently successful but also able to work in a remote first team</li>\n<li>Attention to detail without losing focus of the bigger picture</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Work with multiple applications, both internal and user facing</li>\n<li>Working together with the team on product, technical and non-technical levels</li>\n<li>Understanding client requirements and how they translate to application features</li>\n<li>Develop rapid prototypes according to specification</li>\n<li>Write high quality source code and complete applications within deadlines</li>\n<li>Conduct functional and non-functional testing</li>\n<li>Troubleshoot and debug applications</li>\n<li>Evaluate existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The World University Insights Ltd relies on the flexibility of its staff to ensure the continuity of the high standards and performance, as such this job description is only intended to be a guide to the most regularly performed duties, it does not form part of the contract of employment and is subject to amendment and change as may be considered.</p>\n\n\n","pdfUrl1":null,"location":"London (Greater) (GB)","location1":"유럽","location2":null,"location3":null,"type":"4","applyUrl":null,"fileUrl1":null,"fileUrl2":null,"fileUrl3":null,"fileUrl4":null,"fileUrl5":null,"fileUrl6":null,"fileUrl7":null,"workingHour":"Full Time","contractType":"Permanent","salary":null,"original_id":"UNI|276739","original_domain":"timeshighereducation.com","original_url":"https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/276739","original_isPremium":null,"closeType":1,"closedAt":"2022-02-28T00:00:00.000Z","requireEducation":10,"managerTel":null,"managerFax":null,"managerEmail":null,"managerName":"TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION","managerPhone":null,"managerAddress":"London (Greater) (GB)","log_hit":1,"log_like":0,"publishState":1,"organizationName":null,"organizationName_en":null,"organizationName_alt":null,"del_yn":"N","createdAt":"2022-01-06T19:18:04.000Z","updatedAt":"2022-01-06T19:18:04.000Z"},"organization":{"organizationId":9277,"lv1Id":null,"lv2Id":null,"name":"TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION","name_en":null,"name_alt":null,"introduction":null,"logoImg":"https://d311j2r2qvjkvi.cloudfront.net/getasset/28a785fa-1e1b-448d-8cba-259a7e113200/","logoImgSquare":null,"homepageUrl":null,"infoUrl":null,"country":"KR","state":null,"location":null,"address":null,"phoneNumber":null,"faxNumber":null,"type":null,"univType1":null,"univType2":null,"univType3":null,"univType4":null,"establishedAt":null,"count_majors":null,"count_students":null,"meta_competitiveness":null,"publishState":2,"updatedAt":"2020-04-17T21:09:39.000Z","createdAt":"2020-04-17T21:09:39.000Z","default_1_bannerImage":null,"default_1_bannerImageMobile":null,"default_2_bannerImage":null,"default_2_bannerImageMobile":null,"default_3_bannerImage":null,"default_3_bannerImageMobile":null}}