Arbor Education

Senior Product Engineer – Workflows

Arbor Education

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Work closely with the Product Director, Engineering Manager, Tech Lead and Product Manager to help solutionise feature requests
  • Contribute to the success of an ambitious roadmap through consistent delivery
  • Lead the creation of detailed documentation for new feature developments, incorporating diagrams for comprehensive project understanding
  • Drive the development and implementation of advanced tests around new features, ensuring the highest standards of test coverage and reliability
  • Demonstrate expertise in producing well-architected, efficient, and scalable code using industry-leading design patterns and methodologies
  • Take a leadership role in code reviews and pair programming sessions, guiding and mentoring colleagues towards excellence

Requirements

  • Extensive, demonstrated experience designing and building high-performance, asynchronous services using Node.js, including modern TypeScript best practices
  • Advanced understanding and application of best practices and software engineering principles, including SOLID, DRY, etc.
  • Deep, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and optimising cloud-native solutions using the AWS Serverless ecosystem (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Event Bridge, Fargate, etc)
  • API Design and Implementation: Proven ability to architect and write scalable RESTful APIs within a service-oriented ecosystem
  • Proactive problem-solver with a strategic, systems-level mindset regarding infrastructure, security, and cost optimisation within AWS
  • Leadership qualities demonstrated through collaboration and mentorship.
  • A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, a driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions
  • Expertise in various relational database technologies
  • Good written and spoken English, so you can present your ideas - our HQ is based in London
Benefits
  • A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
  • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
  • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
  • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 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 (6 weeks full pay) pay
  • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
  • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
  • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
  • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
  • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
  • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
  • Dog friendly offices!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Node.jsTypeScriptSOLID principlesDRY principlesAWS LambdaAPI GatewaySQSEvent BridgeFargateRESTful APIs
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingteam playercommunicationstrategic thinkingparticipationguidancedocumentation