About The National College

At The National College, we empower your workforce to transform children's lives. Our all-in-one platform helps schools, trusts and nurseries stay compliant, raise standards, and reduce staff workload — all through intuitive, powerful software.

If educators need it, we build it.

We’ve created a unique platform combining the world’s largest CPD and policy library with custom-built tools — developed in collaboration with thousands of schools and over 1,000 education experts. 

The Role

Experience 

• 5+ years’ experience in development roles.

• 2+ years’ experience lead development roles.

• Previous experience at leading and mentoring engineers.

• A track record of building high-performance products, preferably with ecommerce or SaaS applications.

• A strong portfolio showcasing previous projects, including personal or professional contributions.

• Ideally you have a degree in software engineering, computer science or similar field

• Experience with managing and mentoring software engineering teams, including hiring, training, feedback, and performance evaluation.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services on AWS.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools, such as CI/CD, Kubernetes, etc.
• A strong ability to work with detail and accuracy.
• Strong technical skills and understanding of software development and delivery practices.
• A passion for development and technology driven by being hands with coding and development.
• Demonstrable experience of development within a Ruby/Ruby on Rails environment on established large scale web products.
• Demonstrable experience with SaaS based products on cloud platforms, including API integrations with external systems.
• Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL/Aurora).
• Detailed knowledge of web development technologies and associated services including Vue.js, CSS (sass, scss, tailwind), JavaScript. Knowledge of erb templates, Ruby on Rails, Angular and React are major benefits.
• Experience with definition and implementation of software architecture, framework selection and implementation.
• Ability to design, implement and maintain scalable, reliable and secure software solutions that meet business and user requirements.
• Capability to build CSS and front-end implementation for multi-device support based on UI/UX designs.
• Experience interacting with Google Analytics, using Google Tag Manager and other third-party integrations such as VWO, product fruits, Algolia search
• Experience with video delivery platforms or learning management systems a huge benefit
• Practical experience working with automated unit and integration testing tools and frameworks such as RSpec, Rubocop or Minitest
• Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, and tools such as Jira and Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Flexible and able to work in a highly collaborative fast-paced culture

• Own and improve development processes to provide structure and support for the team and collaboration and visibility to stakeholders, owning code review and improvement processes
• Carry out high quality development in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS, HTML and JavaScript against the asks within the development backlog that were provided by product and design.
• Support both test and development teams to ensure both high quality automated and code level testing occurs during development, and full end-to-end testing can be carried out
• Resolve technical or operational challenges raised by internal teams or customers
• Leading engineers, providing clear expectations, feedback, mentoring and development, fostering the culture of continuous learning.
• Support the appropriate selection of tools, frameworks, recommending best architectural approach, ensuring scalability, security, maintainability and performance.
• Support the product and design teams throughout planning to support the scoping and scaling of new developments
• Work closely with design and standalone to ensure a high attention to detail and quality in all visual areas of the product, whilst being highly accessible.
• Ensuring high quality code through the use of implementation of automated testing for new and existing developments.
• Reviewing and supporting other engineers within the team through timely and supportive code reviews and continuously improving both own and other team members coding standards.
• Working as part of a scrum team, but collaborating with other development teams, product, design and test teams to ensure the best implementation and highest quality product.
• Supporting agile process for planning and estimation, ensuring realistic targets for each sprint.
• Resolve bugs and issues as reported by the QA, support and design.
• Provide capacity and input to enable both personal and team innovation within the product, processes and team, staying up to date on emerging technologies and best practices.
• Expanding and maintaining integration with third party interfaces (e.g. SalesForce, Hubspot, Xero, GTM, GA, SSO, etc)

• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption Pay
• 24/7 Online GP
• Mental Health & Wellbeing support
• Charity Day
• 25 Days Holiday, Rising to 30 days
• Professional Study Support
• Plus more