Content Engineer

About the role

uLesson is a leading African edtech company serving secondary school students in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Kenya with curriculum-aligned video lessons, exam prep, and tutor support. The Content Engineer builds tooling that helps content teams produce, version, and deploy curriculum content efficiently. Application deadline 31 July 2026.

Responsibilities

• Build content production tools (authoring, video processing pipelines, asset management, localisation workflows).
• Maintain integrations between content tools and the uLesson learner-facing apps.
• Partner with curriculum, video production, and product teams on content pipeline improvements.
• Operate content tooling in production through on-call rotations.
• Mentor mid-level engineers on content systems.

Requirements

• Three to five years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Experience working with media pipelines (video transcoding, FFmpeg, CDN delivery) or content management systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and storage (S3, GCS).
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.

Nice to have

• Prior edtech, media, or content platform experience.
• Open source contributions or technical writing.
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards.

How to apply

Open the uLesson careers page at the apply link, find “Content Engineer”, and submit through the uLesson recruitment portal. CV review, take-home coding exercise, technical interview, and team-fit interviews follow. Closing date 31 July 2026.