The Role
At Unite Students our aim is to create a Home for Success for our students, using technology and data to empower them to find their home and have a great stay with us, and a great experience throughout their student life.
As Web Engineering Lead, you will be a proactive and seasoned professional with a broad technical background, poised to lead the development of complex, business-critical systems in an enterprise environment. You will thrive in guiding high-performing development teams, solving intricate problems, and adapting to a dynamic, Agile environment that values empowerment, trust, and collaboration.
In this role, you will design and buildUnite Students` web platform, integrating with core systems and third-party services to elevate our brand and customer experience. You will champion the adoption of appropriate technologies and frameworks, lead key projects, and foster continuous learning within your team.
Flexibility, collaboration, and a commitment to growth are crucial. As a core communicator and collaborator, you will play an integral role in a customer-focused team, dedicated to delivering best-in-class applications in a complex environment driven by continuous improvement.
What You`ll Be Doing
- Lead the development of our web technologies, ensuring quality, resilience, and performance.
- Foster a culture of empowerment and trust, encouraging innovation and ownership.
- Collaborate closely with product teams, UX designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions.
- Own DevOps CI/CD pipelines integrating with third-party security and quality tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust systems across the cloud stack, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Work with third-party vendors and internal teams to resolve integration and infrastructure challenges.
- Support teams across the development lifecycle, including testing, production, and release management.
- Communicate progress, risks, and issues effectively to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Oversee application security, developing and implementing strategies to mitigate vulnerabilities.
- Contribute to and promote best practices in coding, continuous integration, and delivery across the organisation.
- Mentor and support junior developers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business users and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and mutual understanding.
What We`re Looking for in You
- Extensive experience in designing, developing, and delivering modern web applications in a commercial environment.
- Proven leadership skills, with a strong emphasis on team empowerment, collaboration, and trust.
- Proficiency in source control, continuous integration, and testing tools, with a commitment to quality and security.
- Expertise in a range of technologies, including TypeScript, NextJS, Node, Express, RESTful services, GraphQL, ElasticSearch and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Contentfu preferred.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and an understanding of their importance in fostering a collaborative environment.
- Experience owning and maintaining the cloud infrastructure which host your applications.
- Strong ability to integrate front-end web technologies with business systems via API gateways.
- Excellent communication skills, with a professional, service-oriented approach.
- A passion for continuous learning, self-development, and mentoring others.
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.
