School leaders, teachers, parents and students are going through the most significant digital transformation ever. Driving this innovation globally, my client is building new data and software engineering teams and ripping up the edTech rule book, re-imaging how data, mobile and cloud platforms will radically alter the learning and teaching outcomes for millions people across the globe.

You will work within in R&D development team, headed up by the global IT Director. Surrounded by amazing talent from the UK and US, this team will rebuild the core education platform, already the staple enterprise education product in over 120,000 schools worldwide.

Working closely with Microsoft and squeezing every ounce of functionality from the Azure stack, this is an opportunity for Software Engineers to be part of something significant.

You will collaborate closely with data scientists, designers, and UX and develop this new platform that will drive decision-making through data-rich visualisations and functionality that will seamlessly integrate with multiple educational components that drive school operations, finance, and human resources alongside teaching and learning resources and technologies.

Want purpose? You can change education for the better for millions of young people

Want technology Innovation? This position will develop application code, and contribute to version-controlled source code repositories.

Stack as follows:

C#, .NET (Standard and Core)
JavaScript (JQuery), HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
Relational Databases (SQL Server preferred)
Web Services (SOAP, XML, JSON, REST)
ASP.NET MVC and Web API

Toolsets such as:

Build Tools: Azure DevOps/TFS, TeamCity, Jenkins, Bamboo
Source Control: Git or like
Work Request Systems: TFS, Jira
SDLC Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, use of architectural patterns/frameworks

The culture
The software engineers in this team are in it for the long haul, they know that what they embarking on is huge, it’s not going to be a quick transformation, it’s going to take to make each component perfect.

They are passionate about this mission, empathetic, curious but courageous. They are all passionate about education and know that their team is one of the first in the world to attempt this sort of edtec transformation and change.

Most work in the UK, but they work closely with US teams and have been 100% remote pre covid, so the onboarding, interactions, engagement and standups are orchestrated very well. However, they also have also worked hard on building a team where everyone feels safe to volunteer ideas.

Software Engineers are paid a great basic salary plus benefits alongside a culture of flexibility that drives the perfect life/work balance, but more than that, they’re just lovely people!

To find out more before applying please reach out to Simon Bucknell. Simon has over 25 years in technology recruitment and works with this client on an exclusive basis and as an extension of their international talent team. He is very active on Linkedin and easily accessible. To book an appointment to talk to him find a slot here: https://calendly.com/lets-talk-careers/discovery

Software Engineers - C# Azure SQL - Global EdTech Transformation