Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location: Sheffield or London or Talbot Green

Full time, permanent

Salary: £60,000 to £80,000

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:

You will be joining an evolving agile team that includes Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Quality Assurance, and fellow Engineers. You will be working in a team that actively encourages openness and respect for one another. You will work alongside your team using transparent processes to inspect, adapt and continuously learn and improve.

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.
• Take ownership of deploying your code to all environments and release it to our customers.
• Provide support, mentorship, and guidance to other team members.
• Work with solutions architects, taking an enterprise level architectural approach to create SaaS based services that are used throughout Tes’ products.
• Work alongside other engineers and tech leads on improving the developer experience and engineering culture.
• Happy to contribute and share knowledge amongst their own team and Tes Engineering via knowledge sharing meetings.

What will you need to succeed?

Essential skills:

• Programming language expertise in PHP8 using best practices.
• Great expertise in engineering practice, including deep knowledge of engineering and architectural principles (including clean code, SOLID principles, etc…).
• Experience working with quality assurance engineers and taking a test-driven approach to development.
• Hands on experience calling APIs (particularly REST APIs) and working with OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Working knowledge of both NoSQL and relational database technologies.
• Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers through coaching and mentoring.
• Good written and verbal skills, able to translate concepts into easily understood diagrams and visuals for both technical and non-technical people alike.
• Drive for advocacy of agile delivery methodologies.

Desirable skills:

• Experience with microservices using technologies like Docker/Kubernetes.
• Programming language expertise in Java SE 17+ and Spring Boot.
• A good understanding of CI/CD principles.
• Experience with feature toggling and A/B testing.
• Experience in working in the cloud (AWS/GCP)

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