Senior Software Engineer

Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption. We have partnered with 1,500+ companies to deliver a new kind of learning that's transforming today’s 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 they’ve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance. In June 2022, we announced a $220 million Series D funding round co-led by StepStone Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. With a post-money valuation of $1.7bn, the round makes us the UK’s first EdTech unicorn. But we aren’t stopping there. With a strong operational footprint and 800+ employees, we have ambitious plans to continue scaling. We’re building a world where tech skills unlock people’s potential and output. Join Multiverse and power our mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era. THE ROLE We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Trusted Enterprise Platform team and build the systems that keep Multiverse secure, compliant, and architecturally sound as we scale. You will build and maintain the foundational services that every product team depends on but few users ever see: authentication and single sign-on, safe release infrastructure, notification delivery, universal preference management, and the technical surface area where regulatory obligations like GDPR become working code. Your work will be the reason other engineers can ship with confidence and customers can trust us with their data. We are looking for a full-stack engineer who leans towards the backend and finds satisfaction in providing leverage. You are the kind of person who enjoys building a platform capability leveraged by ten teams, but serving thousands. You care about getting the abstractions right, because you know that a poorly designed auth flow or a leaky preference centre creates problems that compound across the entire organisation. THE CHALLENGE: YOUR FIRST 6 MONTHS - Months 1 to 2: Learn the platform landscape, understand our auth and identity systems end to end, and ship your first meaningful contribution to one of the core services. - Months 3 to 4: Take ownership of a workstream, whether that is improving SSO integration, building out safe release infrastructure, or advancing the preference centre. Start influencing architectural decisions. - Months 5 to 6: You are a trusted owner of one or more platform domains. You are shaping the roadmap, mentoring teammates, and your work is visibly reducing friction and risk for product teams across the organisation. YOUR IMPACT As a Senior SWE, you are a force multiplier whose influence extends beyond your immediate tasks. - Technical Excellence: You will produce clean, extensible code that serves as a best-practice example for the squad, possessing a strong understanding of non-functional requirements like security and scalability. - System Ownership: You won't just launch bugs-free code; you will ensure proactive monitoring is in place, defining new technical metrics to guarantee the health of Multiverse’s systems. - Strategic Execution: You will advocate for incremental delivery, taking a fail-fast approach to complex problems and helping the squad manage technical debt effectively. - Mentorship & Uplift: You will actively mentor more junior members, conducting thoughtful code reviews and producing documentation that helps others ramp up quickly. - Cross-Functional Influence: You will engage stakeholders directly to understand their problems, building strong relationships to achieve business objectives across several squads. HOW WE WORK WITH AI At Multiverse, AI is our engine, not an add-on. We want every engineer to use AI tooling as a core part of how they work, not as an experiment or a side interest. That means using AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Gemini, etc.) daily to write, review, and debug code fa