At Snapplify, we're increasing access to digital education and empowering educators to transform their classrooms for the 21st century. We need an Intermediate Developer to join our growing team. This is a career-defining role in a high-growth edtech scale-up. You'll take real ownership of the work, and help us grow our impact across Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Our team believes in making a real, measurable impact. We're known for being innovative and have a hardworking team of experts who are incredible to work alongside. We move fast, with a bias towards action. If you're ambitious, driven, and like to work on big, chewy projects, our team might be for you.
So what are we looking for?
We're looking for a Developer who can hit the ground running in assisting us with some really great projects. If you are someone who:
- Communicates well, verbally and in writing
- Can take an idea from conception to implementation
- Enjoys complex projects and newer technology
- Gets things done on time, without a diva attitude
- Uses AI tooling seriously and critically - you get real leverage from it, and you know exactly where it can't be trusted
- Has an opinion on coding standards and best practices, and shares it
- Contributes across the whole SDLC - requirements, planning, development, testing, go-live and support - not just a "programmer/coder"
- Enjoys helping developers earlier in their careers get better
Our Tech Stack includes (but not limited to)
- Kotlin and Java
- Spring Boot / Spring Framework
- Hibernate JPA
- MySQL
- Thymeleaf - with JSP still in our older code, which we're actively migrating
- Gradle, NPM or similar dependency knowledge
- AWS (EC2, load balancers, SQS), nginx, Cloudflare
- Bitbucket, Jira and Xray
- JUnit and Playwright
- Postman
- AI development tooling - Claude Code and similar, used properly and daily
- CSS / SCSS / Less
- HTML
- JSON, CSV, XML
What will you be required to do?
- Create intuitive and highly functional products for our customers
- Create intuitive and highly functional tools for our internal teams
- Produce quality code
- Own features end to end - from understanding what's needed through to it running well in production
- Play a real role in our JSP to Thymeleaf migration
- Design database schemas and write efficient queries - and know what SQL your ORM is actually running
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Bug fixing and improving application performance
- Get real leverage out of AI tooling, and help set the standard for how the team uses it well
- Attend daily stand-up, sprint kick-off and retrospectives within an Agile/SCRUM environment
- Be responsible and accountable for the delivery of work that you have committed to
- Continuously improving your knowledge, at work and at home
- Break down user stories into tasks and estimations
- Work in a peer code-reviewed environment. You review my code, I review yours
- Mentor developers earlier in their careers
- Become a tech evangelist for systems that make you happy
What skills/knowledge and experience will impress us?
- 5 - 8 years of experience in a similar role
- Substantial work experience in AWS services, Design Patterns, OO, Procedural or Functional programming styles
- Comfortable operating what you build - reading logs, tracing a request through a load balancer and nginx to the JVM
- Solid Spring or Spring Boot experience - dependency injection, configuration, the request lifecycle
- Impressive experience and knowledge in JavaScript, HTML and CSS (Standard LESS, SCSS or compiled CSS)
- Good SQL database experience and SQL construction - you can read a slow query and have an opinion about it
- Hands-on experience in unit testing with frameworks like JUnit
- End-to-end testing experience with Playwright or similar
- Hands-on experience with Xray or other test management software - we expect developers to own the quality of what they ship
- Solid understanding of git and how to use it in your daily workflow
- Experience with product development tools (i.e. Jira)
- Server-side templating experience - Thymeleaf, JSP, Freemarker or similar
- Experience working with legacy code and modernising it incrementally
- Genuinely effective use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code - not just autocomplete, but restructuring how you work
- Experience in E-Reading, E-Readers
- Mobile development experience
- Mobile web experience
What can you expect working at Snapplify?
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- Genuine ownership, and the technical decisions that come with it
- A flat organizational structure with a focus on teamwork and continuous learning
- A fast-paced and challenging environment that will keep you on your toes
- An environment where your input and ideas matter
