Senior Software Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Remote)

TryHackMe is the fastest-growing cyber security training platform, approaching two million worldwide users! Our learning content covers all skill levels from complete beginners to seasoned hackers. We offer guided, gamified, hands-on training - teaching hacking and defence in action and spanning users across education, business, and personal development niches. 🥷

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help us scale TryHackMe to support millions of aspiring security practitioners to learn about cyber security.

Your role will involve everything from maintaining the current code base to developing awesome features to support our users. This exciting position will focus on growth engineering work, bringing concepts from ideation to completion through quick iterations and a cycle of build-measure-learn. You must be comfortable working in a small team (two engineers, a product manager, and a designer).

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing software solutions that meet business requirements across TryHackMe considering scalability, reliability, and security

• Collaborating with product managers, designers, tech leads and developers on project plans and technical execution

• Mentoring and coaching developers, providing technical guidance and feedback

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and other engineering meetings providing feedback to ensure code quality and alignment with TryHackMe technical standards

• Writing high-quality, maintainable code using modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS, React)

• Developing and maintaining databases and data models, as well as creating and optimising queries

• Monitoring and analysing system performance to identify and resolve bottlenecks and issues

• Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and sharing knowledge with the team

• Participating in Agile development methodologies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

• Contributing to the continuous improvement of software development processes and practices.

Your relevant Skills & Experience:

• Ideally 5+ years of experience within software engineering including back and front end development
• Experience leading a Software Engineering Team
• Relevant hands-on experience with the following technologies: Git, NodeJS, CSS, HTML, jQuery, Javascript, React, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, AWS
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google cloud
• Excellent understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
• Interest in cyber security or edtech industries
• Strong leadership, problem-solving skills and be comfortable communicating in English