Senior Software Engineer

Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption.

We have partnered with 1500 companies to deliver a new kind of learning thats transforming todays workforce.

Our upskilling apprenticeships are designed for people of any age and career stage to build critical AI data and tech skills. Our learners have driven $2bn ROI for their employers using the skills theyve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance.

In June 2022 we announced a $220 million Series D funding round co-led by StepStone Group Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. With a post-money valuation of $1.7bn the round makes us the UKs first EdTech unicorn.

But we arent stopping there. With a strong operational footprint and 800 employees we have ambitious plans to continue scaling. Were building a world where tech skills unlock peoples potential and output.

Join Multiverse and power our mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era.

What youll be building

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Trusted Enterprise Platform team the group that keeps Multiverse secure scalable and architecturally sound as we grow.

Youll build and maintain the foundational services every product team depends on: authentication single sign-on safe release tooling notification delivery and the systems that turn regulatory obligations like GDPR into working reliable code. Your work wont always be visible to end users but its what lets our engineers ship with confidence and our customers trust us with their data.

This is a backend-leaning full-stack role for someone who finds genuine satisfaction in building platform capabilities that multiply the effectiveness of the teams around them.

What youll be doing

In your first two months youll get to know our platform deeply understanding our auth and identity systems end to end and shipping a meaningful contribution to one of our core services.

By months three and four youll take ownership of a workstream whether thats improving SSO integration building safer release infrastructure or advancing our preference and consent centre and start influencing architectural decisions.

By six months youll be a trusted owner of one or more platform domains: shaping the roadmap supporting your teammates and visibly reducing friction and risk for product teams across the organisation.

What were looking for

You have solid backend experience strong data modelling clean API design and an eye for well-drawn system boundaries. Youve worked in cloud environments and are comfortable with containerised infrastructure. You write code that others can read maintain and build on.

You dont need to have built an identity provider from scratch but you should be able to reason about authentication and authorisation flows understand their security trade-offs and have worked with concepts like OAuth or SSO in a B2B context. Well help you go deeper on the specifics of our stack.

We work primarily in TypeScript and youll need to be productive in it from day one experience with Elixir is a plus. Familiarity with event-driven systems or a history of pulling shared services out of a monolith are both things that would set you apart.

How we think about seniority

We care about depth and impact not years on a CV. At this level were looking for someone who:

• writes code that serves as a clear example for the rest of the team

• takes genuine ownership not just launching features but ensuring systems stay healthy over time

• engages with stakeholders directly and helps other engineers move faster

• mentors teammates through thoughtful code reviews and good documentation

How we use AI

Were an AI-forward team. We use tools like Claude Cursor and Gemini daily to write review and debug code and we genuinely enjoy sharing whats working. Were not prescriptive about which tools you use but we do care that youre curious about how AI is changing the way software gets built and open to experimenting as new things emerge.

Benefits

• Time off - 27 days holiday plus 5 additional days off: 1 life event day 2 volunteer days 2 company-wide wellbeing days (M-Powered Weekend) and 8 bank holidays per year

• Health & Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa a medical cashback scheme life insurance gym membership & wellness resources through Wellhub and access to Spill - all in one mental health support

• Hybrid work offering - for most roles we collaborate in the office three days per week with the exception of Coaches and Instructors who collaborate in the office once a month

• Work-from-anywhere scheme - youll have the opportunity to work from anywhere up to 10 days per year

• Space to connect: Beyond the desk we make time for weekly catch-ups seasonal celebrations and have a kitchen thats always stocked!

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Were an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race colour ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender gender identity or expression or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality Diversity & Inclusion policy here.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

Multiverse is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our learners. We expect all employees to share this commitment and adhere to our Safeguarding Policy our Prevent Policy and all other Multiverse company policies. Successful applicants will be required to undertake at least a Basic check via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS).

For roles that will involve a Regulated Activity successful applicants must also undergo an Enhanced DBS check including a Childrens Barred List check and a Prohibition Order check. Roles involving Regulated Activity may interact with vulnerable groups therefore are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 meaning applicants are required to declare any convictions cautions reprimands and final warnings.

Providing false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal if the applicant has been selected and possible referral to the police and the DBS.

Required Experience:

Senior IC