Full Stack Developer
Canada (Home Based)
Up to £68,000 Plus Benefits (see below)

About Us

At Kortext, we are driving towards becoming the world’s leading supplier of digitalised academic books.

With the continual evolution of technology and processes surrounding teaching and learning, we have developed a platform that supports ease of discovery, ease of access and ease of learning materials that meet the needs of both the students and professionals in academia.

Using the platform we have developed and our expertise in the market, we have brought more than 2,000 universities from around the world onto our platform and can only envisage this growing as the need for online teaching and learning rapidly increases.

Our digital library currently contains over two million books from more than 4,500 publishers, in addition to this, our platform is available in more than 100 countries and we have now partnered with 85% of Russell Group universities.

Due to the popularity of our core Learning Platform, we are looking to recruit a Full Stack Developer to join our team in Canada and play a leading role in delivering updates and elevating developments.

The Role

As a Full Stack Developer, you will develop and deploy new functionality for our market-leading Learning Platform.

You’ll be working across our development operations for the platform but will specifically analyse specification documents to refine requirements and propose solutions. You will also work alongside our Development Team to provide ‘level of effort’ estimations for critical or escalated customer issues.

Additionally, your role will involve:

- Helping create and implement scalable development processes
- Writing efficient, reusable, and reliable code
- Ensuring bugs and maintenance issues are dealt with
- Unit testing code and performing code reviews
- Assisting with QA testing and troubleshooting
- Providing a credible and approachable point of contact
- Easily explaining complex technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Identifying and providing recommendations for approaches and initiatives to enhance performance
- Identifying potential areas for growth
- Developing custom solutions aimed at meeting business objectives

Due to the nature of your role, you will need to incorporate at least a five hour overlap during your working day to cover our core hours (in line with EST or GMT-5).

About You

To be considered as a Full Stack Developer, you will need:

- At least three years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency with reactive programming
- Proficiency in, at least, two modern programming languages such as Swift, Kotlin, Go, Typescript, C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- An understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis
- Design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
- Experience working closely with designers, systems engineers, and software engineers in a collaborative development environment
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or commensurate professional experience

Your Benefits

- Healthcare scheme
- Flexible working
- Focus on collaborative working
- Join a fast-growing market leader
- Support and develop a platform hosting more than 2,000,000 books!
- Drive innovation and development
- Take advance of an abundance of development and progression opportunities
- Join a collaborative and innovative team
- An incredible Tech stack
- Inclusive and diverse culture with a clear vision
- Join a company that is a proud supporter of, and is actively engaged with, charities

Other organisations may call this role Software Engineer, Full Stack Software Engineer, Software Programmer, Development Engineer, Programmer, or Applications Engineer.

Kortext is committed to providing an inclusive working environment where our employees can be themselves and everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We value difference and know that a diverse community makes for greater innovation and brings a breadth of skills, experience and perspectives.

We’re here to help and want to ensure you have a positive experience throughout our recruitment process. We recognise that everyone is unique and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments.

So, if you are ready to take on a stimulating, all-encompassing development role as a Full Stack Developer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.