Staff Engineer – Core Product

🕒 May 26

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Own and deliver target architectures, strategies, and roadmaps for Arbor’s product suite and strategic direction • Partner with Technical Leads to provide hands-on guidance for feature delivery, technical-debt reduction, and architecture improvements • Collaborate with Product Directors to translate product vision into deliverables aligned with commercial and engineering goals • Lead Arbor’s shift to AI-first working by architecting SDLC foundations and championing productivity-focused approaches • Mentor and coach Technical Leads and Senior Engineers on architectural and engineering excellence • Model pragmatic, outcome-focused technical leadership • Lead architectural reviews and ensure designs meet quality, reliability, security, and compliance standards • Collaborate with Staff and Principal Engineers on broader technology strategy • Partner with Engineering Management to grow teams, identify dependencies and risks, and report progress against strategic goals

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive track record delivering outcomes and leading across large, complex product suites in scaling, fast-moving environments • Broad understanding of software architecture, system design, and scalable integration patterns • Experience communicating and influencing technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to support the growth of engineers and technical leads across distributed, cross-functional teams • Demonstrable experience in an ownership culture where quality, performance, observability, and security are core responsibilities • Deep experience guiding teams in architectural design, de-risking complex initiatives through MVP/0-1 thinking, and framework adoption • Understanding and opinion on how AI-first engineering will change the SDLC and ways of working, ideally with worked examples • Experience contributing to or leading technical communities of practice, such as chapters, guilds, or architecture councils • Practical knowledge of or exposure to PHP, Node, React, Python, MySQL, AWS, or equivalent technologies • Experience navigating monolithic and distributed architectures with a pragmatic understanding of each • Must be able to work in the United Kingdom; visa sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Wellbeing team and initiatives including mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training • 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company-wide days) • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay) • 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching • Flexible working • Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events • Dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships • One paid volunteer day per year • Dog-friendly offices • Referral voucher valued up to £200 if a referred person is offered a role