Senior Software Engineer, Steplab
ÂŁ75-90k
Professional learning platform for schools & teachers
Open for applications
Professional learning platform for schools & teachers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
ÂŁ75-90k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform young people’s lives by giving teachers, coaches, and school leaders the tools they need to continuously improve.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable working across the stack, on our Python (Flask) back-end hosted on AWS, as well as with our web-based front-end
- Excited by the idea of turning ideas into working software quickly, iterating based on feedback, and helping us get great products into the hands of educators without delay.
- Track record of delivering complex web-based software products
Desirable
- Experience in the education sector
What the job involves
- Designing and building a survey platform used by school leaders to gather insights from their staff
- Developing a cutting-edge classroom simulator powered by large language models, to support teacher training and practice
- Refining the onboarding experience to ensure new schools get value from Steplab from day one
- Championing platform security, implementing best practices and proactively identifying areas for improvement
- Building our front-end migration from Jinja2 templates to a modern React + TypeScript architecture
- Collaborating closely with designers and engineers, taking ideas from concept through to production
- Mentoring junior engineers, fostering growth and best practices across the team
- Contributing to product strategy, helping steer the technical direction and long-term vision of Steplab
Application process
- 1. Apply with your profile
- 2. Video call with a tech lead
- 3. Take-home task
- 4. Final interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The founders of Steplab have a broad and extensive set of experiences in the education system, from both teaching and operational perspectives. This is why they've built an education solution to tackle industry pitfalls, namely how to measure and improve teaching standards.
The platform harnesses instructional coaching and data-driven insights to improve the quality of teaching. It is an approach that draws on insights from top educational researchers, and empowers institutions to improve the student experience while supporting staff.
The UK is going through something of a crisis in the teaching workforce, as many defect to less stressful and better remunerated positions. A platform, therefore, that can offer an effective way of improving the quality of instruction is likely to prove popular among short-staffed headteachers looking to improve their educational provision.
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Insights
50% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- 🌴 28 days of paid leave, plus bank holidays | You’ll start with 28 days, increasing by 1 each year up to 31. We think everyone who works at Steplab should have plenty of time to recharge and enjoy life outside of work. We only ask that holidays are kept to around two weeks maximum at a time, and that you’re considerate of when others on your team are on holiday.
- 🏢 We have an office near Highbury & Islington station. We tend to come in 2-3 days per week, but we’re flexible if you want to come in more or less than that. We ask that everyone is available to come to London once per month for an all-hands meeting. We are open to fully-remote candidates, but will prioritise those amenable to hybrid working.
- 🏥 Private Healthcare Insurance | We provide private medical insurance designed to cover treatment of new medical conditions. From seeing a specialist for fast diagnosis, to having a comfortable private hospital stay. Provided by Vitality.
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Joshua Goodrich
(Co-Founder & CEO)After a career as an educator, he went on to found and serve as CEO at Powerful Action Steps.
Ben Abelman
(Co-Founder & Principal Engineer)Previously a Software Developer at Dame Alice Owen's School, he moved on to serve as Lead Software Developer at the London Academy.
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