Mid-Level Software Engineer

EQL Tech

$125K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Mission-driven with a strong desire to make an impact
  • Proficient in production React
  • Capable of handling 80% frontend and 20% backend tasks
  • A self-starter comfortable in a small team environment

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with the Lead Software Engineer to shape the engineering practice
  • Write production code from day one for defined feature work
  • Engage in hands-on, pragmatic development rather than abstract concepts
  • Contribute to the migration from a legacy monolith to a modern stack
  • Influence the architecture and workflows as V2 of the platform matures

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence engineering practices and architecture
  • High leverage role with the chance to impact millions of users
  • Work in an innovative and supportive team environment
  • Gain experience in a fast-paced, evolving tech stack
  • Prospective ownership of larger features as the project develops
Full Job Description
The role

You would be the second engineer in-house, working alongside the Lead Software Engineer and an external technical consultant.

The platform is mid-migration. A legacy monolith is being progressively replaced by a modern Next.js and .NET stack on Azure, without interruption to learners already using it. In the last year the team has brought continuous integration in-house, containerised the legacy application for cross-platform local development, and established the architecture for V2. The engineering practice is young, and there is real scope to influence how it works.

You would be writing code from day one against defined feature work, with the Lead Engineer owning architecture. As V2 matures there is a clear route to owning larger features end to end.

A small team on a platform this size means unusually high leverage. It also means the work is hands-on and pragmatic rather than abstract. If you want to ship things that reach millions of people and see the effect quickly, this is a good place to do it.

Requirements
What we're looking for

Essential
  • Around 3-5 years' professional software engineering experience
  • Strong mission-driven orientation and motivation to make an impact
  • Strong production React
  • Comfortable across the stack - roughly 80% frontend, 20% backend-- and not someone who avoids backend work
  • A self-starter who can cut through ambiguity in a small team

Helpful, not required
  • Next.js
  • Azure
  • C# or .NET
  • Education, international development, or building for low-connectivity environments
  • Comfortable being the second engineer in-house, working alongside a Lead Software Engineer and an external technical consultant

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