Hours: Part-time, 4 days/week
Salary: £50,000-£60,000 pro rata (£40,000-£48,000 for 4 days/week)
Location: Remote or hybrid - preferably commutable to Bristol for occasional in-person meetings (currently, most of us work together one day a week)
Start date: ASAP - ideally July, but September at the latest
Working pattern: We’re happy with a 4-day-a-week structure or whatever pattern works best for you. We’re flexible on hours outside of meetings and committed to work-life balance - this is a genuinely part-time role with realistic expectations.
The Role
We’re looking for a thoughtful, adaptable full stack developer to help us build and improve our platform. You’ll be our first dedicated developer, working closely with our founder across everything from UI improvements to backend decisions and feature builds.
The platform is live, in use, and generating revenue - but there's still a lot to do to make it scalable, fast, and flexible as we grow.
You’ll need to be confident across the stack and comfortable juggling priorities in a small team. This is a practical, hands-on role - we’re not looking for perfection, but we do care about clarity, maintainability, and keeping things simple.
This is also a role with real potential to grow as the business does.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Building new features and improving existing ones across our learning platform
- Working across our serverless stack and integrating multiple APIs
- Supporting performance, stability, and architectural decisions
- Collaborating with the founder on product and platform improvements
- Contributing to our technical systems and internal tooling
- Helping us keep our tech clean, well-documented, and easy to extend
Tech Stack
Our setup is serverless, fast to iterate on, and API-driven. Current tools include:
- Next.js, React, vanilla CSS
- Supabase (PostgreSQL, auth, storage)
- Vercel (hosting, edge functions)
- Heavy API usage - including OpenAI APIs, Google Workspace, and others
- Jupyter notebook integrations
- React Native (we’re introducing this - fine to learn on the job)
About You
You don’t need to have worked in a startup or in edtech, but you do need to be a clear communicator, a quick learner, and confident working in a small, fast-moving team.
We’d love to hear from you if:
- You have 3+ years experience working as a developer in a team
- You’re comfortable using GitHub and a ticketing tool like JIRA (or similar)
- You write modern JavaScript and CSS, and ideally have used React
- You’re confident in frontend design, with a good sense for UI and user experience
- You understand backend architecture, data structures, and API integrations
- You take pride in clean code, good documentation, and keeping things maintainable
- You enjoy figuring things out and helping create order in slightly messy environments
Bonus points if you’ve worked in a startup, built education tools, or have experience with our stack - but none of this is essential.
We help people build the skills they need for the future of work - starting with data and AI. Our work spans hands-on workshops, strategic consulting, and a personalised learning platform designed to support real teams in real jobs.
We deliver government-funded projects and private pilots, helping organisations across sectors - from construction to financial services - build confidence in AI. We also support teams with implementation work around responsible AI use, data ethics, and organisational culture.
Our learning platform provides expert-created content, personalised learning paths, and the ability for organisations to design their own training. It's built to be human-centred, practical, and aligned with how people actually work.
We’re a small, Bristol-based team led by founder Laura Gemmell - technical, hands-on, and focused on building things that are genuinely useful.
Benefits & Policies
We’re a small business, but we want to create a supportive, flexible, and fair working environment. Here’s what we currently offer:
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time roles). If working a bank holiday suits you better, you’re welcome to take another day off instead.
- Workplace pension through Penfold, with a 3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution, in line with UK auto-enrolment (starting 3 months after joining).
- Statutory sick pay and statutory parental leave, with a commitment to improve these as we grow. We aim to take a fair, human approach even within the limits of a small team.
- Laptop or equipment budget to help you work effectively and securely. For most roles, we provide a refurbished Mac or similar device - cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable.
- Access to our platform, so you can build your own confidence in AI and data skills as part of the team.
As we grow, we’re committed to reviewing and improving our policies - especially around things like sick leave, enhanced parental pay, and wellbeing support.
Why Join Us
- Remote working, or coworking from Engine Shed in Bristol if preferred
- Genuine flexibility that works well for developers, parents, or anyone with commitments
- Join a fast-growing startup at an early and exciting stage
- Real, hands-on work - with direct access to users and feedback
- Build your own AI and data confidence through access to our platform
- Help shape a product that’s genuinely useful and human-centred
A Note on Startup Life
We’re still small - things move quickly, plans sometimes change, and we’re always learning. But your work will have impact, you’ll be trusted to make decisions, and you’ll help shape how we build and grow. We value clarity, empathy, and people who get things done.
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