TryHackMe is the fastest-growing online cyber security training platform. Our mission is to make learning and teaching cyber security easier by providing gamified security exercises and challenges. Having only been around for handful of years, we've grown to more than 4 million community members and our growth isn't slowing down! 🥷

The Role

We're looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to help us scale TryHackMe to support millions of aspiring security practitioners to learn about cyber security.

Your role will involve everything from maintaining the current code base to developing awesome features to support our users. This exciting position will focus on growth engineering work, bringing concepts from ideation to completion through quick iterations and a cycle of build-measure-learn. You must be comfortable working in a small team (two engineers, a product manager, and a designer). The responsibilities for this role will include:

Designing and implementing software solutions that meet business requirements across TryHackMe considering scalability, reliability, and security
Collaborating with product managers, designers, tech leads and developers on project plans and technical execution
Mentoring and coaching developers, providing technical guidance and feedback
Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and other engineering meetings, providing feedback to ensure code quality and alignment with TryHackMe technical standards.
Writing high-quality, maintainable code using modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS, React)
Developing and maintaining databases and data models, as well as creating and optimising queries
Monitoring and analysing system performance to identify and resolve bottlenecks and issues
Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development and sharing knowledge with the team
Participating in Agile development methodologies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
Contributing to the continuous improvement of software development processes and practices.

Skills & Requirements:

Ideally 3+ years of experience within software engineering including back and front end development
Experience in hands-on software engineering within a startup or scale-up SaaS environment
Experience leading a Software Engineering Team
Relevant hands-on experience with the following technologies: Git, NodeJS, CSS, HTML, jQuery, Javascript, React, Typescript, Redux, MongoDB, AWS - (MERN stack)
Strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google cloud
Excellent understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
Interest in cyber security or edtech industries
Strong leadership, problem-solving skills and be comfortable communicating in English

Benefits & Perks

🚣 100% Remote - _In a fully digital world, work from anywhere you want!

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_🕒 Flexi Time - _Choose your own hours as long as you have at least 4 hours of overlap with the UK timezone (from 8am - 6pm)

_💻 Tools - _a dedicated work laptop + any accessories you need to do your best work.

_👕 Swag Pack - _start your TryHackMe journey with a branded swag bundle!

_💪 Personal Development - £2,500 _training budget to acquire certifications, and more.

_⛱️ Company Retreat - a_n annual company retreat, fully paid for by us!

_🍕Lunch on us - whether you're a pizza-lover, salad obsessed or a big sushi fan, TryHackMe will cover the cost of your lunch order during our recurring company virtual lunches.

🧡 Health Insurance - _if you're in a country that doesn't have public health care.

_🍼 Enhanced Maternity & Paternity- an _enhanced package on top of statutory requirements.

_💸 401k / Pension - _TryHackMe makes it easy to save money for your retirement.

_Our Hiring Process

Stage 1: Intro to learn more about you, and vice versa!
Stage 2: Short technical ('take home') challenge
Stage 3: Interview with our Software Engineering Manager
Stage 4: Culture Fit call with one of our Co Founders

TryHackMe takes the pain out of learning and teaching cyber security. Our platform makes it a comfortable experience to learn by designing prebuilt courses that include virtual machines (VM) hosted in the cloud and ready to be deployed. This avoids the hassle of downloading and configuring VMs. Our platform is perfect for CTFs, Workshops, Assessments, or Training. We've come a long way since launching in 2018, with over four million users on the platform!