Senior Software Engineer (Growth)

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 April 2026 we announced $70 million in strategic funding led by Schroders Capital with participation from StepStone Group Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. At an increased valuation of $2.1bn the round makes us Europes first EdTech double 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.

The Opportunity

Its an incredible time to join the Engineering team at Multiverse the UKs first edtech unicorn as we equip the workforce to win in an AI era. You have a real opportunity to impact the lives of thousands of people not by picking up tickets but by building the engine that gets more people into transformative learning faster.

The Mission

Multiverse is reshaping the future of workforce development. Growth at Multiverse is a product problem not a marketing problem and increasingly the answers to those problems run through AI. You will join a domain team gain deep knowledge of our products and play a central role in delivering scalable user-focused learner experiences across the platform.

The Product

Our platform now serves tens of thousands of learners and demand for AI skills is accelerating. You wont be handed a spec youll be in discovery shaping what we build and why. Every feature you ship connects directly to a learner outcome and youll be expected to own that connection from design through to deployment.

The Team

You will be joining a high-growth high-impact cross-functional tribe spanning product engineering design and AI innovation. We foster a culture of engineering craft structured experimentation and rapid innovation. We value engineers who are comfortable swimming in the deep end who care deeply about the intersection of AI and user experience and who are excited to solve complex scaling challenges.

This is a high-trust hands-on building environment supported by 10% time for experimentation and weekly knowledge-sharing. We embrace a re-teaming culture giving you the high-agency opportunity to dynamically form teams around business priorities tackle new disciplines and accelerate your career.

The Challenge

You will tackle bold problems to drive our scaling efforts:

• Activate Learners: Build AI-driven onboarding flows that adapt in real time to what a learner already knows how they prefer to engage and where they need support.

• Drive Engagement: Partner with AI Engineers to develop personalised learning experiences that adapt to individual pace context and need.

• Scale Systems: Operationalise AI-generated content at scale across our end-to-end messaging systems defining the guardrails that ensure output feels relevant and human.

• Ship Code: Deliver high-quality architecture and write production code across our core stack: AWS React and TypeScript.

AI Fluency

This role sits at the intersection of AI and product. We dont treat AI as an add-on or an experiment it is our engine. We expect you to be a practitioner:

• You use AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor Gemini) as a natural part of your daily workflow to accelerate velocity raise code quality and explore solution space faster.

• You evaluate AI output critically. You know when to trust it when to push back and how to iterate toward something production-worthy.

• Youve worked with LLM APIs or agentic frameworks in a real product context and understand their failure modes hallucination latency cost and user trust.

• You bring a product builders instinct to AI features: youre asking does this actually help the user not just does this technically work

Your Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer your mastery drives direct business outcomes. We expect you to:

• Execute as an Owner: Independently lead initiatives from design to deployment. Avoid over or under-building arrive at implementations that solve the problem deliver customer value and scale.

• Elevate Technical Excellence: Zero tolerance for user issues. Launch bug-free systems with proactive monitoring and instrumentation built in from day one.

• Scale Simplicity: Identify and manage technical debt leaving the codebase cleaner than you found it. Understand a problem with multiple solutions consider trade-offs and settle on the most suitable design before building.

• Multiply Your Team: Help less experienced engineers grow through mentoring pairing and code reviews. Proactively unblock peers.

• Embrace High Agency: Thrive in our re-teaming environment collaborate across functions adapt to shifting priorities and bring an owners mindset to ambiguous challenges.

• Communicate Clearly: Inspire confidence when presenting complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Take Initiative: Pull up a chair in discovery. Work alongside product and design to shape the problem before the solution is fixed. Name bottlenecks early and act on them.

• Stay Metric Obsessed: Track and understand product and engineering metrics alike and always connect them to the business result they ladder up to.

• Grow Continuously: Treat setbacks as a signal not a failure. Make calls without perfect data change direction when new information arrives and see the current state as a starting point.

Operating Principles in Action

We evaluate and drive performance through our BAM framework (Behaviours Achievement Mastery):

• Solve for Customer Value: Every decision starts with: How does this create value for our paying customers Prioritise work that directly benefits the learner over internal convenience or habit.

• Drivers Not Passengers: Own outcomes. Dont wait for permission to fix a problem lead the solution take others with you.

• Be Decisive Even in Ambiguity: Launch imperfect solutions test learn and course-correct quickly. Dont let fear of the wrong call stall progress.

• AI to Deliver Outcomes: AI is your co-author not a shortcut. Use it to go faster and build better but direct it deliberately challenge its output and hold the quality bar.

Interview Process

• Initial Screen: A brief conversation about your background achievements and impact.

• AI-Assisted Technical: A coding and system design exercise where you use AI tools to build. We assess how you direct evaluate and iterate on AI output not just whether you can use it. We then deep dive into your technical mastery and architectural thinking.

• Architecture & Behaviours: How you live our Operating Principles ownership decisiveness and how you bring others along.
  
  

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