Software Engineer

Hi 👋 we’re Genio. We create beautifully simple learning tools that boost knowledge, skills, and confidence.

• We’re a SaaS scale up and one of the fastest growing tech companies in the North.
• There’s 100+ of us around the UK with our HQ in Leeds.
• Our software is award-winning and used by 100,000s of students at over 800 universities & colleges worldwide.
• We’re growing so we can achieve our mission to support 1 million students to become better learners by 2030.

As a Software Engineer at Genio, you'll be part of a multi-disciplinary, talented team, collaborating to create innovative software solutions that empower our users. You'll be responsible for crafting clean, efficient, and maintainable code, integrating components, and ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. You’ll also pride yourself on following our Engineering Principles.

Technology at Genio is a cross-functional function made of Engineering, Product, Product Marketing, User Experience, Customer Experience and Data. This filters down to our product squads where we have at least one team member from each discipline working together to build the best product for our users and customers.

You’ll be joining one of four stream-aligned squads;
Buyer Admin & Distribute (internally known as BEAR), Buyer HE solution (known internally as Loch HESS), Note‑taking (known internally as GOAT), Learning (known internally as Egg).

You’ll work closely with the whole Engineering team, and you can learn more about the Leadership team here . You’ll be managed by one of the Engineering Line Managers;
Natasha (owns a dog called Bailey), Charlene (owns a sausage dog called Spud), or Mark (Nomad policy champion , Genio Pride organiser ).

Heading up the line managers is Mala, Head of Engineering. If you want to know more about joining Genio, you can hear from Mala here .

Responsibilities - Technical

• Produce clean, efficient code based on requirements.
• Produce maintainable code.
• Focus on testability of delivered solutions.
• Integrate software components and third‑party programs.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Recommend and execute technical improvements.
• Learn and develop your technical expertise in areas relevant to Genio.
• Support releases as they progress through test environments to production (live) environments.

Responsibilities - Interpersonal

• Foster a fun, safe environment for engineering based upon trust, collaboration and respect.
• Mentor other engineers when you have domain expertise that they have yet to acquire.
• Passionate views, loosely held - argue your point of view passionately but be willing to accept that the needs of others or the group or the business may mean that other approaches are adopted.
• Assume we are all well intentioned and want the best for Genio.
• Strong programming skills (object oriented and/ or functional).
• Mobile technologies especially web‑based hybrid apps powered by Capacitor.
• Persistence (mainly SQL, specifically Postgre
  
  SQL), some No
  
  SQL.
• Knowledge of best practices in automated testing, Continuous Integration, Automated deployment, code quality etc.
• Proactively leverage AI tools (e.g., code assistants, automated analysis, workflow agents) to enhance development velocity, code quality, and problem‑solving effectiveness.

Not every one of the above is essential, but hopefully it gives an idea of what we find useful day to day.

🏖️ 33 days annual leave (Inclusive of bank holidays)

🎄 3 gifted days off at Christmas

💰 EMI Share Options Scheme

🎓 Generous individual learning and training allowance

⌚ Truly flexible hours to suit when you work best

💻 Full home working set up and beautiful collaborative office space

🚗 Free Leeds City Centre office parking

🌴 Nomad working policy with family travel insurance

🍼 Enhanced 26 weeks maternity and 4 weeks paternity (fully paid)

🤍 Health cash plan (from glasses to massages)

We have a beautiful office space in Leeds and we love it when we get together to collaborate in person. We typically operate a hybrid way of working, however some of our roles support remote working within the UK, if…