Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures is seeking a PMO Analyst to join their team in London. This hybrid role is essential for overseeing project delivery, providing governance and data-driven insights that enhance team performance. The ideal candidate will have strong project management fundamentals and proficiency in MS Project and financial oversight. Knowledge of French is a plus. You will work closely with Project Managers and Team Leads, ensuring project success across various locations.

PMO Analyst with French Location: London (Hybrid) We've signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us! As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn't a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light that leads travelers to their destinations, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let's grow better, together. Role As a PMO Analyst within our Arrive Transport business unit, you will be the backbone of our project delivery framework. Joining the Project Management function, your role is to provide the critical templates, streamlined processes, and governance that allow our teams to thrive. Reporting into the PMO leadership, you will work closely with Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Team Leads to provide data driven insights and financial oversight. Based in London, you will be instrumental in ensuring our complex ticketing and hardware projects-spanning cities from London to Toronto-are delivered with precision and transparency. Responsibilities Ensure Project Managers are utilizing our scheduling toolset effectively, meeting strict PMO criteria for schedule health and resource allocation. Support the creation and maintenance of project dashboards, specifically tracking finances, risks, opportunities, and payment milestones. Facilitate resource and equipment management processes, providing high level reporting to ensure strong capacity and capability utilisation. Provide essential financial data sourced from Finance to support cost control and accurate project invoicing. Create and deliver training materials for stakeholders on schedule, risk, and issue management to elevate team performance. Actively contribute to project management process improvements, ensuring our engineering lifecycle remains lean and effective. About you You are a highly organized and analytical professional who enjoys the challenge of turning complex data into actionable insights. You thrive in a collaborative environment where your attention to detail helps teams stay on track and under budget. You are a natural problem solver with a "hands on" approach, capable of working under pressure while maintaining a supportive and inclusive attitude toward your colleagues. With excellent communication skills and a reliable nature, you enjoy being the "go to" person for process governance and project support. Your background Two or more years of experience within a successful PMO organisation with strong project management fundamentals. Proven ability to provide schedule and financial support to complex, large scale projects or programs. Proficiency in a leading scheduling tool such as MS Project (including template management) and both Microsoft and Google business software environments. Strong understanding of the engineering development lifecycle, ideally within software or systems engineering. Experience in risk and opportunity management, including impact/benefit identification and mitigation tracking. Excellent time management skills with a track record of meeting strict deadlines in a fast paced environment. Knowledge of the professional French language, along with professional command of English, will be an asset. This role is based in London.

Alumni Ventures is seeking a Platform Engineer to help scale Ashby, a software company improving hiring processes. You'll work on optimizing infrastructure, support rapid feature deployment, and build engineered solutions. The ideal candidate enjoys ownership, independent problem-solving, and working with minimal oversight. Key technologies include TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Benefits include a competitive salary, equity, and unlimited PTO.

Alumni Ventures is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in PHP 8+ to join their London office. In a hybrid work setting, you will drive architectural innovations towards a microservices framework while ensuring platform integrity. The ideal candidate will have solid cloud experience, particularly with AWS, and proficiency in designing reliable systems using Agile methodologies. This role not only focuses on coding but also fosters a culture of engineering ownership.

Senior Backend Engineer - PHP Technology • London • Hybrid Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in PHP 8+ and Laravel. You will be a key architect in our shift toward a robust microservices and event driven architecture. This isn't just a "coding" role; we expect our seniors to be platform aware, helping us move away from a "throw it over the wall" culture to one of true engineering ownership. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Development: Design and implement scalable microservices using PHP 8.4 and Laravel. Infrastructure Ownership: Leverage AWS and Docker to deploy and manage services. We value engineers who can navigate container orchestration independently. Data Integrity: Optimize MySQL for transactional reliability and utilize MongoDB or Redis for high performance data needs. Event Driven Design: Build decoupled systems using asynchronous patterns (SQS/Event systems) to ensure marketplace resilience. Testing & Quality: Implement TDD (Unit and Integration) to protect our core revenue streams. Required Skills 5-8 years of Development experience Essential: Strong proficiency in PHP 8+ / Laravel, MySQL, and Docker. Experience: Proven track record in Microservices and Event Driven Design. Cloud: Solid understanding of AWS core services. Desired Skills (The "Platform Aware" edge): Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform). Knowledge of GoLang for high performance services or Lambdas. Experience with OpenSearch and Redis. Familiarity with VueJS to assist in full stack collaboration. Knowledge of Kubernetes.

We're looking for a curious, rigorous, problem hungry platform engineer who codes to help Ashby scale to the next level. Ashby builds software that lets talent teams streamline hiring, and we need an engineer who can build the reliable, secure, and fast infrastructure that supports this growth. We have notable customers such as Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our ARR is in the tens of millions and we are growing more than 100% year over year with over 2,500 customers. About the Role and How We Work I'm Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering, and I've led engineering teams in startups for many years. Our infrastructure is mission critical and continuously evolving. As a Platform Engineer at Ashby you will own end to end projects, ship code with minimal oversight, and maintain a secure, simple environment for our product team to build in. Responsibilities Optimize our dynamic DSL to SQL compiler and develop tools for developers. Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of customer data. Help our team ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while keeping complexity manageable. Define SLOs with the engineering team and implement corresponding SLIs. Ensure all external services support retries and circuit breakers. Implement the infrastructure needed for an event driven architecture and a data warehouse. Qualifications Strong coding skills and a passion for building engineered solutions. Experience building or maintaining large scale distributed systems. Comfort with SQL, data models, and performance tuning. Proactive self management: ability to deliver projects independently with clear documentation. A mindset that values security, reliability, and high performance. Why You Should or Shouldn't Apply Apply if you enjoy deep problem solving, taking ownership, and writing impact driven code. Apply if you value engineering autonomy, can handle technical risk, and like to work with minimal process interference. Do not apply if you prefer strict top down decision making, dislike coding, or require heavy guidance on delivery. Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL. Postgres, Redis. Datadog and Sentry on a 100% cloud based (AWS) infra. Benefits Competitive salary and equity. 10 year exercise window for stock options. Unlimited PTO, encouraged for use. Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave. Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. £100 per month education budget. Health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental health insurance covered outside the US. Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Alumni Ventures is looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale their software infrastructure. This role involves optimizing systems, ensuring security and reliability, and working with minimal oversight to deliver impactful solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong coding skills, experience with distributed systems, and a proactive approach to project management. Benefits include competitive salary, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive health coverage.

Hi I'm Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We're looking for an ambitious full stack engineer who is laser focused on solving customer problems and making the right long term investments to solve them not only today but in our future features and products. What Ashby gives you in return is the best of both early and growth stage environments. The agency and no nonsense of a seed startup: you write product specs, make product and design decisions, and build in an almost no meeting culture. While also the product market fit and scale of a growth stage startup: tens of thousands of daily users who depend on your software and eagerly await your next feature. We have notable customers including Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. About the Role And How We Work Our engineering culture strives to recreate the environments where we do our best work. I started my career building software for artists in the Visual Effects industry; success relied on my ability to be a product manager and designer. No daily stand ups, no t shirt sizing, no planning meetings. As a Product Engineer, you'll take ownership over a large portion of one of our products and own projects end to end (wearing hats traditionally worn by product and design). You'll research competitors, write product specs, make wireframes, and more. Designed and built automated interview scheduling that calculates possible times from interviewers and other constraints, presenting these times to the candidate for selection via our responsive web app. Built a generalized declarative filter architecture that allows users to create complex filters for any record with a consistent UI and compiles it to SQL in our backend. Specced, designed, and implemented a feature that lets users complete signing offers entirely within Ashby. What We're Building We're building talent acquisition software that removes blockers for recruiters. A recruiter needs to manually collect availability from candidates, identify qualified interviewers, perform "calendar tetris," schedule on the earliest date possible, and make last minute adjustments while considering interview load. We automate this workflow and provide insights into where they're failing. Qualifications & Fit Not afraid to tackle any part of the technology stack, whether frontend, backend, or infrastructure. Experience with projects that have product and technical ambiguity. Balance speed and quality; built high quality products on long timelines. Ambitious, always looking to improve skills and take on new challenges. Excellent collaborator and communicator, vetting decisions with stakeholders and working with other engineers. Seek to create leverage in work by automating or abstracting tasks. Not a Good Fit For You Need company driven process and structure to finish projects. Only want to do exciting work; prefer high level tasks over implementation. Get lost in details; prefer everything planned upfront. No prior ownership of projects; used to tasks assigned by leads. Want to mentor early career engineers; most team members are senior or above. Expect a tech lead primarily to project manage or do architecture reviews. Benefits Competitive salary and equity. 10 year exercise window for stock options. Unlimited PTO, encouraged to take time. Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave. Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. $100 per month education budget; higher costs covered with manager approval. Top tier health insurance for US residents, 100% premiums covered; high quality supplemental insurance for other countries. Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. Compensation Range: £103K - £137K