Software Developer

Software Engineer

Location: Talbot Green (3 days a week in the office)

Full time, permanent

Salary: £45,000 to £55,000

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. 

Role overview:

Working with our Product teams Tes Engineers will be given the autonomy and purpose to develop solutions to challenging business problems rapidly delivering value to teachers and schools around the globe.

You will be joining an evolving agile team that includes Scrum Masters, Product Managers, QAs, and fellow Engineers. You will work alongside your team using transparent processes to inspect, adapt and continuously learn and improve.

Our platform utilises best of breed services across AWS, Azure and GCP and comprises of an array of microservices, core API’s and web apps hosted on a series of Kubernetes clusters or scalable infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within a Scrum Team to deliver agreed functionality fit for release throughout each sprint cycle.
• Actively participate in scrum events and workshops, including sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Work alongside other Engineers and Heads of Product Development to contribute to Tes' Architecture and Engineering culture.
• Work within a BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) and TDD (Test Driven Development) approach to ensure solutions are robust and technically fit for purpose.
• Bringing in innovative ideas on technology and process to improve the product and delivery.

What will you need to succeed?

Essential

• A working knowledge of some or all the following backend technologies: C#, .Net Core, Java
• Experience of creating and consuming services and API’s using frameworks and patterns such as WebAPI, REST or similar
• Familiarity with some SQL or NoSQL systems such as SQL Server, MySQL, CosmosDB, or MongoDB
• Good written and verbal skills, able to translate concepts into easily understood diagrams and visuals for both technical and non-technical people alike.
• Comfortable to do what’s needed to help the squad achieve its goals and not stick to defined roles

Desirable

• A working knowledge of some or all the following frontend technologies: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience of working within a team following Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum).
• Happy to contribute and share knowledge amongst their team and TES Engineering via knowledge sharing meetings.
• An understanding of design patterns, asynchronous programming, queuing, and caching.
• A good understanding of CI/CD principles and tools such as Octopus Deploy, Jenkins or Gitlab
• Working with containers using technologies like Docker for local development and Kubernetes for scaling services in our live environment.
• Experience with feature toggling and A/B testing.
• Understanding of oWASP and application security best practise
• Knowledge of oAuth, OIDC or other federated sign on technologies (AWS Cognito, Azure AD, OKTA)

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking 
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management. 

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. 

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal