We re looking for a Junior Software Engineer with experience using React to join our Product and engineering team to help us build beautifully simple, high-impact digital products that support teachers and improve outcomes for pupils across the UK.
Oak is a fully remote, mission-driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We re a national not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with teachers to create high-quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.
Our culture has been independently recognised through:
* Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)
* Escape the City's Top 1% Employers based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact
* Investors in People Gold - through external accreditation and colleague feedback
About the Role
Oak provides school teachers and pupils with the highest-quality curriculum and lesson resources across all subjects and age groups. In this role, you will work on our user-facing web applications using React, Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, and SQL to make our products easy and fun to use.
We work together in product squads alongside designers, researchers, and education experts, regularly releasing new features and improvements to give teachers and their pupils quick and easy access to the highest-quality learning resources.
What You ll Be Doing
* Development of highly performant ed-tech applications that are secure, scalable, highly available and accessible to the widest number of users that meet Government Digital Service standards.
* Pursue an active programme of continual learning and development of skills.
* As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation.
* Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.
* Support all work across Engineering and take on other general responsibilities as required.
What We re Looking For
* Proven experience building web-based applications using modern Javascript libraries and tools either professionally or in collaboration with others.
* Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on digital product development.
* Desire to build beautiful, easy-to-use digital products with an understanding of the importance of accessibility in all its forms.
* Great communication and collaborative skills.
* You will be comfortable working at pace, with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required) and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will be excellent at working as part of a remote team, building relationships and managing your time effectively.
If this sounds like what you d love to be doing, we can t wait to hear from you. If you re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Ability and attitude are just as important as experience!
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day for each year of service (up to 28)
* Additional Oak closure days over Christmas/New Year
* 11% employer pension contribution (with no minimum employee contribution)
* A 36-hour working week, with half-days on Fridays or every other Friday off
* Fully remote working we ll support your home set-up and offer coworking options if preferred
* Twice-yearly in-person offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun
* A culture that genuinely supports flexibility, autonomy, and trust
Inclusion and Belonging
We believe diverse teams build better products. We warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the tech and education sectors.
We use the Applied recruitment platform to help reduce bias in our hiring process.
Key Info
* Location: Remote, but you must be based in the UK with the legal right to work here
* Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we re unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time
* Closing date: We ll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the role early
If this sounds like the kind of role and team where you could do your life s best work, we d love to hear from you.
Next steps
You ll answer some questions related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers (real humans).
If you are shortlisted, we ll invite you to the next stage, which will consist of a remote technical interview and a technical pairing session conducted over Zoom. This will last approximately two hours.
We love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed.
We aim to begin interviews in January 2026.
We are receiving excellent responses to our job advertisements. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying, then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.