Senior Software Engineer

Remote working. Flexible hours. Meaningful product. Trust, autonomy and freedom. Talented colleagues. Technical challenges. Established company.
Sound appealing?
Use your software engineering skills to improve education. Our teaching and learning platform is used by more than 500,000 students in over 1000 schools, across 112 countries. Our tech stack is Python, Django and VueJS.
You'll find our engineering culture to be diverse and highly collaborative, with cross-functional teams utilising Scrum, kanban, and pair programming. We work with features in a user-oriented way, not slicing functionality by layers, but by feature. You'll also be involved in the discovery phase, by speaking with customers to understand their true needs.
Listen to our CTO Marcus discuss our engineering culture in this video here.
We continuously improve processes, code and ourselves. We always leave the code better than we found it, we take time to learn and use retrospectives to take small, controlled steps towards a better team.
You’ll work across the stack, with Python being the main tool. Along with 4 other Engineers in our Teaching Squad, your work will empower teachers to find, evaluate and use engaging content to take their teaching to the next level.
About us
We improve education in schools. Over the past 8 years, we’ve built an incredible curriculum-aligned teaching and learning platform with interactive textbooks, analytics, and assessments, used by thousands of teachers and students. At Kognity, you’ll use your skills and expertise to improve learning in schools for children all over the world. Your work here will make a difference for the next generation.
What you’ll do
Develop key features within the Kognity Platform enabling users to gain even more value in the classroom.


Contribute to product ideation and development; we have a culture where everyone’s ideas are valued and discussed.


Drive technical and process improvements; let's improve the way we ship value.

Requirements
Experience designing, developing and deploying high-quality software.


The ability and desire to build simple solutions to complex problems.


Familiarity with both server side and client side programming; experience with Python, NodeJS, Golang or Ruby would be advantageous.


An understanding of the entire software development lifecycle - testing, deployment, monitoring etc.

Interview process
Recruiter call; An introductory chat with Danny to discuss the role and your interests.


Hiring Manager call; A chat with Ralph to get to know you and discuss the role in more detail.


Code review session; You’ll work on a live code review task with 2 of our Engineers.


Technical case study; You'll collaborate with an Engineer to design a system based on a realistic scenario.


Technical values Interview; A discussion of your experience relating to our tech values.


Leadership team discussion; ​​A chance for you to speak with our CTO, touching on our vision, mission, and values.

Our Values
We maximise progress - We reflect on what produces maximum progress towards our vision, and we make it happen


We take ownership - We take initiative and solve problems we see.


We drive customer value - Success for our customers drives our progress. We create value for them in everything we do.


We are transparent - We are radically transparent with opinions and feedback, and we share information widely.


We take care of ourselves and each other - We work hard and passionately. We also prioritise our own well-being and that of our colleagues. We think long term.

Benefits
Flexible working; Work in a way that fits around your personal life.


Truly Hybrid — work from anywhere in Sweden or our Stockholm office.


Home office allowance of 5,000 SEK to create a comfortable remote work environment.


Pension Plan with Nordnet


Yearly budget of 5,000 SEK to spend on health-related services.


30 days of paid vacation every year


Full pay sick leave starting on day 1


MacBook, iPhone as work equipment


Stock option programme