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Unibuddy
Software Engineer II - Chat Systems (Fully Remote - Europe)
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Unibuddy is hiring a Software Engineer II - Chat Systems (Fully Remote - Europe) to work across its Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products, the tools that let prospective students engage directly with universities and help university staff and ambassadors drive meaningful conversations. The engineer gains exposure to the full stack of the Unibuddy platform across web, native, and backend, working with a modern tech stack including NestJS, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, and AWS. This role also carries the opportunity to build AI-powered features and agentic tooling into the product.
Highlights
- Works across Unibuddy's Chat, Assistant, and Intelligence products, which help prospective students engage with universities and help staff and ambassadors drive yield
- Delivers full-stack features spanning web, native, and backend on a tech stack built with NestJS, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, and AWS
- Builds and maintains applications powered by GraphQL APIs within a microservice-driven environment
- Prefers proficiency in Typescript, with bonus points for Python, and either strong React component architecture or confident AWS backend service work
- Values AI adopters who can navigate parallel pipelines and agentic tooling with a systems-thinking approach to testing and validation
- Looks for comfort building robust test suites and familiarity with MongoDB or another NoSQL database
- Is fully remote within Europe
- Offers private healthcare, life insurance, pension matched up to 6%, and 25+ days of annual leave
- Provides a highly flexible work culture, enhanced parental leave, and a MacBook plus the tools needed to do the job
Software Engineer II - Chat Systems (Fully Remote - Europe) Full 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 work directly with products that provide a series of experiences and tools to prospective students to engage with universities, helping them 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 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
- Proficient in Typescript, with bonus points for Python
- Solid understanding of building well-architected and reusable components with React, including best practices around component lifecycle, performance, and state management, or confident 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
- An AI adopter who can navigate parallel pipelines and agentic tooling, understanding the value of building agents around systems-thinking, testing, and validation, not just code-gen
- Experience building performant, well-architected microservices using common backend frameworks such as Express or Nest
- Familiarity with MongoDB or another NoSQL database and common design patterns, features, and limitations
About You
- Product-minded and user-obsessed
- Demonstrates true ownership of a product, including its ongoing upkeep, maintenance, performance, and bug resolution
- Curious and eager to learn
- A team player, happy to teach and be taught by those around you
- AI-onboarded, using AI tooling to accelerate workflow and automate where necessary
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience meeting WCAG accessibility requirements
- React Native experience
- Event-driven systems utilizing Kafka, Kinesis, or RabbitMQ
- Serverless architecture
- Exposure to Python and Flask/Django
What Unibuddy Offers
- Highly flexible work culture
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance coverage
- Pension matched up to 6%
- 25 days of annual leave, plus an additional special day for a personal occasion, extra days based on tenure, and 4 additional days for a company-wide year-end shutdown
- Enhanced parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- A MacBook and all the tools needed to do your best work
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