Mid-Level Backend Engineer, MyTutor
£40-50k
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Jenkins
MySQL
Spring
DynamoDB
Mid level
London
1-2 days a week in office
Personalised online one-to-one lessons
Job no longer available
Personalised online one-to-one lessons
1001+ employees
B2CB2BEducationTutoringLearning
Job no longer available
£40-50k
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Jenkins
MySQL
Spring
DynamoDB
Mid level
London
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
B2CB2BEducationTutoringLearning
Company mission
To provide life-changing tuition to all.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Javascript towards the front end or Java towards the back end are fairly essential though
- A desire to work in a scaling, high impact environment
- An open mind to technology stacks and scalable platform architectures
- You're thorough in your work and ways of working, you thrive on detail
- The desire to keep learning, you're inquisitive by nature
- A collaborative way of working, you enjoy up-skilling your colleagues
- You're open to constructive criticism, you value the opportunity in learning from mistakes
- It’s safe to say an enjoyment of coding would be a good thing
- Experience working as a software engineer in a high-paced, high-change environment
- Experience with integration tools (Github, Bitbucket, CircleCI, Jenkins, Docker)
- Experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
- Some experience with relational or NoSQL database development (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, DynamoDB)
- Some experience with development in Java-based backend microservice or serverless technologies (Spring Boot, Drop Wizard, AWS Lambda, etc)
- Some experience with testing (TDD, contract testing, mocking, stubbing)
- Comfortable working in an agile environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for software engineers across our Product & Engineering team to help us build a scalable microservices based architecture
- Being curious about and comfortable with complex code transition is essential to this role, as is being reasonably language agnostic
- Our legacy tech stack is a Java/JSF, MySQL backend hosted in AWS, while the more recent services are Spring Boot apps with PostgreSQL and Kafka also in play
- Our front end is transitioning to React.js
- We operate in multi-disciplinary agile squads, each owning their own part of the platform
- We've invested a lot of effort in making sure our squads can operate nimbly and own their own destiny and have a modern CI/CD pipeline
- Building new product functionality
- Working with Product Managers & Product Designers to refine stories and explore technology challenges
- Researching new technologies, methodologies and ideas that can improve the organisation
- Working with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
- Building good relationships with key stakeholders, who embrace challenges to their requirements and develop an understanding of the technology they relate to
- Peer reviewing your colleagues’s code and supporting our engineering values
- Contributing constructively in improving agile practices
Application process
- 1. An initial screening call with a member of the Talent team
- 2. A competency and skills based interview with members of the hiring team
- 3. A coding and system design task interview with members of the hiring team
- 4. A culture & values add interview where both parties can iron out any final questions
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Private tutoring is a huge market traditionally dominated by expensive agencies (who charge extortionate hourly rates and take a big cut from the tutors that work for them by acting as the middleman).
The average starting price for tutoring can hit £50 an hour in London, MyTutor’s prices start from a much more affordable £18 an hour (the company can charge this low by cutting out the middle man).
MyTutor has built technologies to make online tutoring sessions smooth (e.g. it built an online whiteboard and makes it easy to share documents and upload past papers). All sessions are recorded so you can also play them back when they've finished. Along with academic support, the company prides itself in building confidence and providing mentorship.
The online EdTech industry has really blown up over the past few years and it highlighted the need for an online service that helps fill the gaps in today’s education system by delivering personalised support tailored to the individual. As MyTutor is conducted purely online, it can now really focus on providing quality education to a much wider audience.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$19.4m
LATE VC
Jun 2020
$4.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $35.8m
Company benefits
- 🏠 Hybrid & remote working options
- 👋 A global network of flexible workspaces through Desana
- 🏥 Private Healthcare options (available after 3 months’ service)
- 🌎 Up to 80 days work abroad allowance
- 🧠 A wellness day off per year (on top of your 25 days holiday entitlement)
- 🗓️ Flexible bank holidays - If you don’t celebrate the standard UK Bank Holidays, use them for other religious/ spiritual holidays that mean something to you (This doesn’t mean using them to relax on a beach – sorry!)
- 🍕 Whole company events such as chocolate tasting and LUSH pampering
- 🧙♂️ Access to our mentorship scheme
- 🤝🏼 A wide range of communities: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Pride Network, Women’s Network and Neurodivergent Network
- 📑 Inclusive Policies that safeguard and enable LGBTQ+ staff to flourish
- ⏳ Workplace pension & salary exchange scheme - 3% workplace / 5% employee contribution
- 💷 £26 monthly working from home assistance
- 👀 Free eye test vouchers
- 🚴 Cyclescheme - Borrow money to purchase a bike and pay it back through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 💻 Tech Scheme - Borrow money to purchase tech/white goods and pay it back through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 🏋️Gym Benefits - Save money on your annual membership by paying in pre-tax instalments (Available after you pass probation)
- 👶🏼 Workplace Nursery Scheme - Save tax & NI on your child’s nursery fees through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 📕 Up to £350 annual personal Learning & Development allowance (Available after you pass probation)
- 🏝️ A 4 week paid sabbatical once you’ve been with MyTutor for 5 years, and an extra week on top of that for every subsequent 5 years you work with us (Available after you pass probation)
- 💪MyT Flex - This is a way of working your contracted hours in a more flexible way by focusing on core hours: this allows you to prioritise things like school drop-offs, caring responsibilities and commitments that matter to you. (This is available for non-customer facing roles)
- ☀️Throughout July and August, you can take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave - you might want to take one day, as annual leave feels a bit tight, or you might want to take the full 8 weeks and have a trip of a lifetime.
Company values
- Act like an owner - There’s plenty to do in a growing company. We value people who look for the right opportunities to take initiative, and work with others to drive projects through to completion
- Understand the why - It's hard to know if we're doing something right, if we don't know why we're doing it. By asking ourselves and each other "why?", we put ourselves in the shoes of the end user, and think about how what we're doing matches the company goals
- Be an energy giver - By bringing enthusiasm, and a ‘can do’ mindset to our work and helping others, we energise and inspire others: both the team we're working with and our customers, partners and external collaborators
- Be proactive - A fast growing company is full of people who find problems and solve them. We are all responsible for anticipating future challenges and opportunities, and we all take responsibility for upskilling, adapting and improving ourselves and our teams to meet those challenges
- Be constructively candid - Diverse perspectives lead to better decisions. We share thoughts openly and honestly, and are prepared to challenge constructively to improve outcomes (remembering always to come from a place of trust and mutual respect)
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Bertie Hubbard
(CEO)Started their career in finance, working for Goldman Sachs and Partners Capital.
James Grant
(Managing Director)Their previous experience lies in banking and founding TutorTap, before joining MyTutor.
People progressing
Originally joining as our Supply Manager, Georgia progressed to being Head of Tutors and being responsible for all things Tutors here at MyTutor. As of Oct 2022 Georgia is now Chief of Staff.
Diversity & Inclusion at MyTutor
- Every role at MyTutor is open to applications from all sections of society. We see potential in every individual regardless of: race, ethnic origin or nationality; religion or belief; physical or neuro-ability; socio-economics or age; marital, domestic or civil partnership status; sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic that makes you… well, you. We are committed to conscious inclusion to create a sense of belonging, connection and shared purpose within our teams. We know it’s the right thing to do, and we know it will make us all happier, fulfilled, and successful in our work. You can also find a copy of our current Gender Pay Gap report on our website and we are continuing to build our roadmap of creating a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
- We run our interviews with a focus on hiring across key Behaviours, Skills and Values: each job description will have the specific criteria we're looking to hire under the 'Who will you be?' section. This ensures we are only hiring with specific and measurable objectives in mind, avoiding traditionally biased-based questions and exploring pre-set and meaningful criteria.
- We do not hire for a 'culture fit', we hire for a Culture Add. This does not mean that candidates shouldn't pay attention to our Behaviours or Values, and that MyTutor doesn't embody these, but relates to how we explore who will be the next best hire for our business. Instead of a 'culture fit' model where we look for people 'just like us', we hire with the intent to be open to peoples' lived experiences and how they can add a further perspective to our values, to their teams and MyTutor.
- We offer flexible bank holidays - If you don’t celebrate the standard UK Bank Holidays, you can use them for other religious/ spiritual holidays that mean something to you.
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