Senior Software Engineer
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £36,849 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Location: | LA1 3SW |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Ascentis |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are looking for an experienced full stack engineer to join our established team. As part of an Agile development team, you will work closely with experienced engineers, UX designers, our R&D team, and the product owner to help shape the future of our digital EdTech products. You will work across the entire stack; Angular, Rust, Node.js, MySQL and Azure, to refactor existing systems and build new features. Alongside our Angular, single page application, you will help develop a student activity engine, used to design, build and deploy engaging and interactive content for our customers. Our engine is developed using the Rust programming language, utilising WebAssembly as its compilation target.
If you like the sound of the role, and you think the below attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you. Are you:
• A full stack engineer with proven experience
• Experienced in developing extensible and maintainable code using design principles such as SOLID
• Excited to work in a small team where your contribution is significant
• Looking to work on software that makes a real difference to our learners
If you like the sound of the role, and you think the below attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you. Are you:
• A full stack engineer with proven experience
• Experienced in developing extensible and maintainable code using design principles such as SOLID
• Excited to work in a small team where your contribution is significant
• Looking to work on software that makes a real difference to our learners