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Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary: From £45,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid - flexibility to work from home or at any of our main hubs (London, Bristol, Manchester and Harwell)

Jisc is the UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions. We believe education and research improves lives, and technology improves education and research.
Our vision is for the UK to be a world leader in technology for education and research and our mission is to power and empower our members with the technology and data they need to succeed. We know that digital technology has the ability to transform the student experience. We have the experience, expertise and know-how to drive that transformation.
About the role:
This exciting role is with our OpenAthens service, who are global leaders in making knowledge accessible through Single Sign-On easy. We help more than 2,600 organisations, with 5 million users, in over 65 countries, have access to the knowledge they want, when they want it.

The OpenAthens development team are key to delivering our ambitious growth plans worldwide by delivering our product roadmap to support the strategic goal to double the number of OpenAthens customers over the next 5 years.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer for one of the OpenAthens development scrum teams, you will use your technical skills, knowledge and experience, along with your soft skills, to work with your scrum team colleagues and stakeholders, to continually improve the OpenAthens products. As a full stack developer, you will contribute to both front-end and back-end software changes.

Responsibilities will include:

• Developing your knowledge of the OpenAthens products, our development process and technical environment
• Collaborating with your scrum team colleagues (developers, testers, product owner), the application architect and other stakeholders to understand the required product changes, then create the technical design and the plan for their implementation
• Use your skills, knowledge and experience, along with the team’s development process and technical environment to create the required product changes
• Actively contribute to technical improvements, product improvements or product discovery

Key Skills and Experience:

• Experience of designing, developing and supporting enterprise-scale applications
• Able to create code that is both high quality and easily maintainable
• Fluency with Java backend development
• Developing web front-ends with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React
• A collaborative way of working with customers, end-users, other stakeholders, product managers, other developers, application architect and UX designers
• Motivation and ability to continuously learn and exploit new and emerging technologies, techniques, and soft skills, combined with a commitment to continuous improvement

Don’t meet every single requirement?
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box but we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Why work at Jisc:
At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
We celebrate diversity, embrace our differences and know that this is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we’re inclusive and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. So, if you are great at what you do and share our values, we want to hear from you.

At Jisc we believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
We offer hybrid working and although the majority of our staff work from home, getting face to face is something we value and find time for when we can. If you prefer an office environment all our hubs are open and offer a great space to work.

Our benefits are great too. We offer:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and an additional three closure days over Christmas
• A generous pension scheme with above average employer contributions
• A range of leave options, including parental leave, volunteer leave and even career breaks.
• A generous budget to attend conferences and in-person training
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Mental health first aid trained staff and supportive environment, plus your own Wellbeing allowance to spend on wellbeing for you
• Financial well-being support
• Discounts on big-name high-street stores
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans

Equality, diversity and inclusion:
At Jisc, we strive to be best in practice and are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles - a principle which actively encourages acceptance of differences within individuals.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, trans status, veteran status or gender identity.

Application process:
Please do let us know what reasonable adjustments you need made to the application or selection process so you can do your best. We will be happy to help you.
In order to be considered for this role, you will be based in the United Kingdom with no work restrictions.

Just so you know, we review CVs as we receive them, and interview as soon as we have applications that look like a good match (usually within a week). We don’t use closing dates. So, please apply as soon as possible to avoid missing out on this role. We advertised this role on 17/02/2023.