Intermediate Full Stack Engineer
About this role
ABOUT US
HyperionDev is one of the largest providers of accelerated tech education in EMEA and one of the oldest providers of 'coding bootcamps' in the world. We work with top universities such as Imperial College London, The London School of Economics, The University of Edinburgh, and Stellenbosch University to deliver structured technical courses and bootcamps that accelerate people into fulfilling tech careers. We have been recognised as one of the top education technology scaleups in the world and gained the financial backing of Meta (previously Facebook) which recognised us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa, where we initially started our work.
We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review powered by a workforce in Southern Africa, which lowers the cost of an accessible education in technology. This model has been successful, allowing us to reach millions of learners a year from over 60 countries. We have also partnered with government bodies such as the UK's Department for Education who provide scholarships for students to study on our bootcamps and gain employment at companies such as AstraZeneca and the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
We're backed by nearly 2000 investors, having raised the largest crowdfunding round of funding for an edtech company in history. As a primarily bootstrapped, profitable, and scale up tech business join us as we play our part in making the world a more stable, safer, and fair place.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As an Intermediate Full Stack Engineer you will be responsible for initiating, building and maintaining all aspects of our bespoke software platforms, including but not limited to:
• Our student portal • Our mentor portals • Our placements portal • Our website and payment gateways • Our sign up flows • Our data analysis platforms • Our tech stack consists primarily of Python, Django, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Route53), Postgres, and Ubuntu. • To excel in this role, you should be a creative problem solver, be enthusiastic about learning and growing your technical skills, display keen attention to detail and high standards in code quality.
Please note that this is a full time position.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design and write high quality code for our website and platforms using Python and Django. • Collaborate with other members of the team to execute engineering projects, plan sprint cycles, undertake technical troubleshooting, and reduce technical debt. • Share knowledge freely with other members on the team and take guidance from senior engineers. • Work closely with Product to help in planning, designing and creating the technical implementation of features which will be used by tens of thousands of people around the world. • Refactor and improve legacy code as areas of requirements volatility are found and bug hotspots are uncovered. • Communicate with technical people through clean code, precise technical documentation and well commented MR’s and with non-technical people by creating work breakdowns, test plans and clear comments