Software Engineer

• Contribute technical delivery across educator-facing systems, improving performance, resilience and the educator experience.

• Provide day-to-day technical guidance to product and test engineers, supporting consistent standards and high-quality delivery.

• Contribute technical expertise across educator content and professional learning applications, considering user journeys, system behaviour and data.

• Apply strong engineering practices across code quality, automated testing, security, observability and operational performance.

• Constructively challenge engineering approaches to modernise systems, reduce technical debt and improve delivery outcomes.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps, identifying sequencing, dependencies, constraints and cross-domain implications.

• Support platform consolidation and architectural simplification while escalating significant technical risks and trade-offs.

• Maintain operational stability while enabling iterative product development and longer-term technical evolution.

• Build effective relationships with product, UX, data and business stakeholders to align engineering delivery with educator and school needs.

• Experience as a software developer delivering and operating large-scale digital platforms in a complex organisational environment.

• Strong full-stack development experience using modern web technologies such as Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Node.js.

• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secure development, automated testing and reliability engineering.

• Experience integrating headless content management systems, frontend frameworks and third-party APIs.

• Experience delivering Agile or Scrum-based projects and collaborating within cross-functional product teams.

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues and explain technical trade-offs and risks.

• Experience contributing to platform modernisation, legacy uplift, architectural simplification or technical debt reduction.

• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Working understanding of security, data protection and compliance requirements, including GDPR, for digital platforms.

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits allowance equivalent to 1.5% of Annual Salary to spend on benefits or as addition to salary

• 10% employer pension contribution with a 3% employee contribution

• Enhanced family friendly benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus public holidays. The opportunity to purchase up to 5 days of leave each year

• Life assurance 4x annual salary

• Flexible working hours (core hours are 10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm), 37.5 hours per week

• Paid volunteering leave

• Excellent continuous professional development

Opportunity & Belonging

We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified applicants. As a global employer, we adhere to all relevant employment legislation in the countries in which we operate, and we're happy to provide any reasonable support or adjustments as needed to ensure applicants can fully participate in our recruitment process.