Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: Sheffield or London

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum

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:

The Triage function has been created to address a worsening problem at Tes – managing the ever- increasing non-roadmap work, addressing longstanding issues that threaten revenue, and taking responsibility for our aging systems so that other engineering teams can focus on our roadmap priorities.

More than just a sideline squad, though, we offer engineers exposure to Tes’ entire product and technology stack and an environment where real change is made quickly and directly for our customers. 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.

Due to the success of this new engineering function the Triage team is looking to expand so we can continue to deliver the value that our business needs over an even greater product family.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within a Scrum Team to deliver agreed functionality for Tes staff and customers
• Be open and willing to change product and technology stack dependent on sprint focus, including languages and environments outside your comfort zone
• Develop the ability to discuss tickets with non-technical stakeholders and ascertain true requirements
• Actively participate in scrum events and workshops, including sprint planning and retrospectives

What You Need to Succeed

Experience

• Building and maintaining applications at a commercial level in one of the following languages:
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • PHP
  • C# or another C derivative
• Interacting with, and managing data in, both relational and non-relational data stores
• Writing automated integration and unit tests for large or complex applications

Knowledge

• A good understanding of the foundations of software development, language constructs and common design patterns
• An awareness of how an agile software development team works and the software lifecycle that accompanies that
• An appreciation for good documentation and an understanding of how to write it
• Exposure to, or understanding of, the working practices for academic institutions would be beneficial

Skills

• Desire to solve problems in unfamiliar software environments for a range of products
• Willingness to learn new technologies and programming languages as and when the team requires
• Strong debugging and investigatory skills for both software and human issues
• Experience working with QA engineers on a wide variety of products and services
• Desire to build and maintain relationships with non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or other equivalent, preferably in Software Engineering or a related field, or other industry standard comparable qualifications

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