Senior Product Engineer

About the role

Arbor Education, which supplies MIS and school management tools used in over 12,000 schools and trusts, is looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer to join its Engineering team. The role leads and drives high-impact features and contributes to the company's core systems and processes, while improving product quality and lead time across the team. It is a remote position with a salary of £70,000 - £80,000.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, QA Engineer and Product Manager to turn feature requests into solutions.
• Maintain software that connects internal systems and build software to centralise add-on purchases for the Arbor Platform.
• Write detailed documentation for new features, including diagrams.
• Develop and run advanced tests for new features, aiming for high test coverage and reliability.
• Produce well-architected, efficient and scalable code using proven design patterns and methodologies.
• Lead code reviews and pair programming, and share knowledge through tech talks, workshops and team learning.

Required profile

• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented languages and considerable experience in software development, specifically with PHP.
• Significant experience building back-end services in PHP and working with third-party systems and APIs.
• Strong database skills with relational databases.
• Leadership qualities shown through collaboration and mentorship, and good written and spoken English.

Required skills

• PHP and back-end services
• SOLID, DRY and other software engineering best practices
• Past experience with enterprise solutions and large-scale systems is a bonus
• Bonus: React or Vue, Scrum, cloud computing, Docker, refactoring, clean code, domain-driven design and test-driven development

What we offer

• 32 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance at 3x annual salary and private dental insurance
• AIG Smart Health wellness benefit, pension and enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Flexible working, professional development budget, social committees and dog-friendly offices