The Role

At Unite Students, we create a Home for Success by using technology to help students find their ideal home and enjoy a fulfilling student life. We`re looking for enthusiastic developers with a solid technical background, especially in Web Engineering. You`ll help build business-critical systems and contribute to our customer-facing website, the primary sales channel. Success here requires a passion for teamwork, problem-solving, and thriving in an Agile, collaborative environment. Adaptability, collaboration, and a commitment to growth are key to delivering top-tier applications in this dynamic role.

The Tech Stack

• NextJS and Typescript, Express, Terraform, Docker
• Contentful, Algolia
• AWS ECS and AWS OpenSearch

What You`ll Be Doing

• Working within a Lean, agile software development team, responsible for taking features through the full SDLC, following a DevOps operating model.
• Working with User Experience and Product Owners to create market leading solutions to our customer`s needs.
• Reviewing pull requests, participating in code reviews, and contributing to technical discussions.
• Continuously refining our development processes, estimations, and contributing to technical documentation.
• Debugging and optimising application performance to deliver a great user experience.
• Presenting progress and results to stakeholders.

What We`re Looking for in You

• Demonstrable hands-on experience in commercial software engineering with modern front-end technologies. While your expertise doesn`t need to match our tech stack precisely, you should be able to demonstrate a proven ability to write, deploy, and maintain high-quality enterprise-level code.
• Strong understanding and experience with RESTful APIs and GraphQL, including seamless integration into applications.
• Proven ability to contribute to technical decision-making, evaluating and balancing the trade-offs between different architectural and technical approaches.
• Familiarity with building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps is preferred but not essential.
• Exposure to cloud deployment architectures is advantageous, though not a mandatory requirement.
• Proficiency with Git version control, including an in-depth understanding of branching strategies and how they integrate into broader CI/CD workflows.

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.