Junior Software Engineer (React)

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Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK - we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Oak is a great organisation with a highly valued culture. We have been recently accredited (through colleague surveys) as a founding member of Escape The City's Top 1% Employer Certification (the ultimate benchmark for progressive organisations) and achieved a Flexa verified score of 93% overall, with 93% for autonomy, 95% for working hours, and a whopping 97% for role modelling.

We are looking for a Junior Software Engineer with experience using React to join our Product and Engineering team.

Oak provides school teachers and pupils with the highest-quality curriculum and lesson resources across all subjects and age groups. In this role, you will work on our user-facing web applications using React, Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, and SQL to make our products easy and fun to use.

We work together in product squads alongside designers, researchers, and education experts, regularly releasing new features and improvements to give teachers and their pupils quick and easy access to the highest-quality learning resources.

Responsibilities

• Development of highly performant ed-tech applications that are secure, scalable, highly available and accessible to the widest number of users that meet Government Digital Service standards.
• Pursue an active programme of continual learning and development of skills.
• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation.
• Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.
• Support all work across Engineering and take on other general responsibilities as required.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Proven experience building web-based applications using modern Javascript libraries and tools either professionally or in collaboration with others.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on digital product development.
• Desire to build beautiful, easy-to-use digital products with an understanding of the importance of accessibility in all its forms.
• Great communication and collaborative skills.

If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Ability and attitude are just as important as experience!

What we offer

• Work at home or wherever you prefer (with an option to use a desk in a flexi/co-working office space of your choosing)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + additional Christmas Closure days
• 11% employer pension contribution (employee contribution is not mandatory and flexible)
• Access to learning and development

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying, then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.