{"job":{"jobId":2421742,"fk_accountId":null,"fk_organizationId":9277,"fk_adminAccountId":null,"title":"Senior Software Development Engineer","description":"\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Senior Software Development Engineer<br/>\nCompany: <br/>\nDepartment: The World University Insights Ltd <br/>\nEngineering<br/>\nLocation: Red Lion Square, Holborn, London<br/>\nReporting to: Team Lead - DataPoints</strong></p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>THE 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></p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>THE ROLE</strong>\nTHE has a lot of ambition to realise its 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;\">This is the beginning of an exciting transformation to become the data and insights partner of choice to the World’s leading Universities. We now need the support of a talented Data Engineer to help us take our data processes and infrastructure to the next level. \n\nIn collaboration with our pre-existing Engineering, Product and Data Science teams, this role will be fundamental in the design and build of data pipelines to fuel our products. Initially, this individual will help to refine our data ingestion processes as we completely modernise some of our data pipelines; and should have a strong desire to share best practises and knowledge to both Data and Engineering teams as well as mentor a more-junior Data engineer.</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">In addition, we are looking to improve data governance and processes across all of our products and Data and Engineering teams, this role is both hand-on and strategic.\n\n<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.\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.</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>ESSENTIAL SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Experience working within small cross-functional teams with the ability to undertake development work independently while also working as part of the team</li>\n<li>Some experience working with product owners/managers to design and develop solutions</li>\n<li>The ability to work closely with other team members</li>\n<li>An understanding of software design and test methodologies</li>\n<li>Familiarity with Agile development methodologies</li>\n<li>Experience working with common software development tools such a Git and Jira</li>\n<li>A strong working knowledge of JavaScript/Node.JS and at-least one modern front-end framework (React/NextJS is desirable)</li>\n<li>A good working knowledge HTML & CSS</li>\n<li>Experience or knowledge with front-end UI/UX design is desirable</li>\n<li>The ability to create and work with HTTP APIs (GraphQL is desirable)</li>\n<li>Experience working with data storage technologies such as MongoDB, Postgres or other SQL</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>Contribute to the success of a small product-focused, cross functional development team</li>\n<li>Develop both front-end and back-end features</li>\n<li>Work with the product manager to deliver leading class software solutions</li>\n<li>Develop multiple applications and APIs, both internal and user facing</li>\n<li>Write high quality, well-tested code</li>\n<li>Conduct functional and non-functional testing</li>\n<li>Troubleshoot and debug applications</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>You are a highly experienced software engineer with a broad experience of web technologies</li>\n<li>You thrive in a cross functional environment and are keen to learn new things.</li>\n<li>You can happily work on code in both the client and server, although you may have a preference between the two</li>\n<li>You actively ask questions and are open to taking advice</li>\n<li>You aspire to build amazing things</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; 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