Associate Software Engineer (UK Remote)

Company Description

100% REMOTE (MUST be UK based)

Turnitin is your partner in education with integrity. Turnitin’s originality checking and authorship investigation services ensure academic integrity, promote critical thinking, and help students improve their authentic writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Seoul, Korea and throughout Latin America.

We are searching for people who demonstrate a passion for education and technology, are collaborative and entrepreneurial in spirit, and who can contribute to our continuing success and growth. In return, Turnitin offers a great benefits package and provides challenging and inspiring work.

Job Description

As an Associate Software Engineer you'll be responsible for developing and supporting plugins, services, integrations, and APIs that facilitate Turnitin’s internal teams and external partners. We are looking for engineers eager to solve difficult problems in a way that is scalable, observable, and performant. On this team, you'll be working on many different pieces of our codebase and will have support from top-notch colleagues. Our work often requires a good knowledge of algorithms, experience with API design, understanding microservice frameworks, and working with multiple languages and technology stacks, mostly Java.

Our team is distributed across multiple time zones (US to UK), work heavily with our DevOps org, and take pride in the services we release. Unit and integration tests are a must, and code-ownership means we are the team on call if things break. You'll be working with people who love their jobs, love the challenges, and most of all we enjoy working with each other. You will also gain experience working at a top EdTech company using the latest AWS serverless technologies and have a direct impact on educators and learners around the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Add new features to existing services.
• Design and build new services that add customer value
• Improve stability and monitoring of existing workflows
• Work with services running in concert at large scale
• Work closely with Support and Alliances to ensure customer delight

Qualifications Required:

• Basic programming skills in Java
• Desire to solve complicated problems in elegant/graceful ways
• Strong work ethic, “self-starter”, endless improvement, eager learner

Preferred:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge with Cloud Native solutions preferably AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, etc) or SpringBoot
• Knowledge with different architecture types including event-driven architecture and micro services
• Knowledge with relational databases
• Knowledge working with simple front end code such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or even React

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin

Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily – solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of making a difference in the lives of educators, administrators, learners and researchers around the world, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. In our Remote-First approach to collaborating, you are also able to work the way that best fits your style and situation – whether that be remote, in one of our offices/rented spaces or hybrid.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working
• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Tuition Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement/Home Office Equipment*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

• varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.