Junior Software Engineer | B2B2C Startup (Edinburgh) Full Time NEW

About Nuuri

We’re building the Rightmove for nurseries. Nuuri is a B2B2C platform that helps parents find, connect with, and enrol in nurseries – digitally, efficiently, and without the usual chaos. We work with some of the UK’s largest nursery groups centralising enquiries, tour bookings and waiting lists into a single workflow, reducing inbound admin while improving enquiry quality and conversion. We were recognised in the Startups100 2026 list by Sage and are shortlisted for Digital Startup of the Year 2026 by the UK Startup Awards – and we’re just getting started.

The Role

We’re looking for a hungry, hands-on Junior Software Engineer to join our small but mighty engineering team. You’ll work closely with our Founding Engineer and CTO, taking ownership of day-to-day development so they can focus on the bigger product vision. This isn’t a role for someone who wants to sit in meetings and wait for tickets – we want someone who takes ownership to ship, solve and constantly say “I have an idea to try”. If you’re excited by LLMs, obsessed with how search is evolving and love the idea of building tech that genuinely changes how families find childcare across the UK – you might be exactly who we’re looking for.

What You Will Be Doing

• Day-to-day development – pick up and ship features, fixes and improvements that keep the platform moving forward without the CTO and FE having to context switch
• AI & LLM integration – explore and implement AI tooling across the platform, from automating workflows to enhancing the parent and nursery experience
• Search & discovery – help evolve how parents find nurseries on Nuuri, staying ahead of how search behaviour is changing with AI and zero-click results
• Bug fixing & maintenance – own the day-to-day health of the codebase, resolving issues quickly and cleanly
• Collaboration – work closely with the Founding Engineer and CTO, communicating clearly on progress, blockers and ideas without needing your hand held
• Innovation – bring new ideas to the table, whether that’s a smarter way to build a feature or an AI hack that saves hours of manual work

What We Are Looking For

• Genuinely AI-curious – you follow what’s happening with LLMs, you experiment in your own time and you think about how AI can be applied to real problems
• A solid understanding of how search behaviour is evolving – from traditional SEO to AI-driven discovery and what that means for platforms like Nuuri
• A self-starter who doesn’t need to be managed – you take a ticket, you run with it and you come back with solutions not problems
• Strong full-stack or frontend development skills – comfortable across the core languages and frameworks we use day to day (Node 20+, Typescript, NextJS, PostgresSQL to name a few)
• A hacker mentality – you find creative, scrappy solutions and aren’t precious about how you get there as long as it works and scales
• SEO, data or analytics experience is a genuine bonus – if you understand how content and code intersect with search, even better
• Genuinely excited by what Nuuri is building and hungry to be part of something at the very beginning

What You Can Expect

• £35-42k salary, competitive for Edinburgh and reviewed as we grow
• Early-stage EMI share options – get in early and share the success you build
• Hybrid working – minimum 3 days in our Edinburgh office (its a cool place to be)
• Work directly with our founding team – no layers, no politics, just real impact

(P.S. If you’re reading this and thinking “I’m 70% there,” apply anyway. Most of us are winging it somewhere – bring the curiosity and we’ll grow together.)