Staff Engineer (Core Product)

8 hours, 22 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

IT Services
51-250

Description

  • Own and deliver target architectures, technical strategies, and roadmaps across the product suite.
  • Partner with Technical Leads on feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and architecture improvements.
  • Translate product vision into engineering deliverables while aligning commercial and technical goals.
  • Lead the transition to AI-first engineering, including new SDLC foundations and productivity practices.
  • Mentor Technical Leads and Senior Engineers in architecture and engineering excellence.
  • Lead architectural reviews and ensure designs meet quality, reliability, security, and compliance standards.
  • Collaborate with Staff and Principal Engineers on broader technology strategy.
  • Partner with Engineering Management to identify dependencies and risks, grow teams, and track strategic progress.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience delivering outcomes and leading across large, complex product suites in scaling environments.
  • Broad understanding of software architecture, system design, and scalable integration patterns.
  • Experience influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Ability to develop engineers and technical leads across distributed, cross-functional teams.
  • Experience working in ownership cultures focused on quality, performance, observability, and security.
  • Deep experience guiding architectural design, de-risking complex initiatives through MVP or 0-to-1 thinking, and adopting frameworks.
  • Understanding of how AI-first engineering will change software development practices, ideally supported by practical examples.
  • Experience contributing to or leading technical communities such as chapters, guilds, or architecture councils.
  • Practical experience with PHP, Node, React, Python, MySQL, AWS, or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience working pragmatically across monolithic and distributed architectures.
  • Ability to work remotely; Arbor cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Benefits

  • Remote and flexible working options.
  • 32 days of holiday, including bank holidays and additional company-wide days.
  • Life assurance at three times annual salary.
  • Wellness benefits including virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and health checks.
  • Private dental insurance and salary-sacrifice pension.
  • Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, plus return-to-work coaching.
  • Professional development budget for training, courses, resources, and memberships.
  • Wellbeing initiatives, financial coaching, charity volunteering day, and team social events.

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