Senior Software Engineer (Atlas)

The Opportunity

It’s an incredible time to join the Engineering team at Multiverse, the UK’s first edtech unicorn, as we equip the workforce to win in an AI era. You have a real opportunity to impact the lives of 1,000s of people.

The Mission: Multiverse is reshaping the future of workforce development. You will join a domain team to gain deep knowledge of our products and play a key role in delivering scalable, user-focused solutions across the platform.

The Environment: This is a high-trust, hands-on building environment. You won't just pick up tickets; you'll build production systems alongside experts, supported by "10% time" for experimentation and weekly knowledge-sharing

The Product:Atlas is Multiverse’s flagship AI product and a central pillar of our mission to equip the workforce for the AI era. Built directly into our learning platform and used by 1000s of users daily, Atlas serves as an AI guide available to apprentices 24/7, providing personalised, context-aware support exactly when they need it.

The Atlas TeamYou will be joining a high-growth, high-impact squad that functions with the agility of a startup within Multiverse. Our team is relatively new, which means you’ll have a significant voice in shaping our technical direction, architecture, and "ways of working." We foster a culture of engineering craft and rapid innovation. We are focused on building sustainable, enterprise-grade architecture for the future of AI-led education. 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 the unique challenges of agentic orchestration at scale.

What You Will Do

• Build Production Systems: Write clean, extensible code for real users, ensuring systems are well-documented and tested.
• Full-Stack Shipping: Work across our stack (Python, TypeScript, React, Elixir, AWS) to deliver features that improve education quality and scale our impact.
• Master AI Engineering: Proactively explore the potential of AI-assisted development (e.g., Cursor, Gemini, or Claude Code) to enhance quality and velocity.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a team multiplier by feature leading, supporting other engineers, and providing technical direction for your squad.
• Operational Excellence: Define squad-level technical metrics to guarantee system health and ensure proactive monitoring is in place.

What We Are Looking For

Technical Foundation

• Mastery of Craft: You possess excellent technical skills and have a strong understanding of non-functional requirements like security, performance, and scalability.
• Clean Code: You write tested, scalable code and understand how to make tests an asset rather than a cost.
• Systems Thinking: You can design and architect solutions to solve complex business problems and understand the trade-offs of different technical paths.

AI Curiosity & Experience

• AI as an Engine: You treat AI as a core tool to improve efficiency and results, not just an optional experiment.

Product & Communication

• Ownership: You possess a strong sense of prioritisation, understanding when an issue needs to be fixed immediately and when it can wait.
• Clarity: You can explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, inspiring confidence in stakeholders.

Operating Principles in Action

• Solve for Customer Value: You connect your work directly to business outcomes, ensuring every decision creates value for our apprentices and paying customers.
• Drivers, Not Passengers: You don’t wait for permission to fix a problem; you proactively unblock yourself and your peers while taking responsibility for your decisions and mistakes.
• Be Decisive, Even in Ambiguity: You act with speed, launching "imperfect" solutions to test and learn quickly without shifting blame.
• AI to Deliver Outcomes: You are excited about us

ing AI to accelerate development while maintaining high standards for code quality.

What Would Set You Apart

• Event-Driven Expertise: Experience with event-driven architecture to help us build even more robust systems.
• Mentorship: A track record of actively upskilling others through mentoring, pairing, and impactful code reviews.
• Open Source: Contributions to the wider engineering community or a passion for exploring emerging industry trends

What We Are Not Looking For

• Passive Workers: We don't provide rigid sprint plans; we need autonomous problem-solvers who drive outcomes.
• Narrow Specialists: This is a full-stack environment where flexibility across the lifecycle—from requirements to deployment—is key.
• Perfectionists over Progress: We value "speed as a strategy" and the ability to course-correct quickly over prolonged analysis.

Interview Process

• Initial Screen: A brief chat about your background, achievements, and impact.
• AI-Assisted Technical: A coding/system design exercise where you use AI tools to build a system. We will then deep dive into your technical mastery. We evaluate your ability to review AI output critically and handle iterative requirements.
• Architectural & Behaviours: How you live our Operating Principles.