Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Booost Education
£40-70k
Assistive EdTech tools empowering neurodivergent students' learning
Be an early applicant
Assistive EdTech tools empowering neurodivergent students' learning
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£40-70k
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help shape a world in which education celebrates and supports a diverse range of learning styles and approaches.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven experience as a T-shaped engineer, building and maintaining full stack applications, ideally in product-led and/or customer-facing teams
- You have solid experience with a range of quality management frameworks and practices such as TQM, “ShiftLeft”, ISO 25010, GDS Service Standards, etc
- You have solid experience using and implementing a range of automated testing and assessment tools such as Cucumber, SpecFlow, Selenium, PlayWright, Cypress, BrowserStack, Postman, Katalon, Stryker, SonarScan, Checkmarx, Snyk, PumaScan, etc
- You have experience using and implementing observability tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, New Relic, Sentry, etc.
- You care deeply about quality beyond the functional, including maintainability, scalability, security, reliability, accessibility, performance, and user experience
- You have solid experience with two or more of TypeScript, Go (Golang), and Cloud Native DevSecOps (GitHub, AWS, Docker), and are at home and proficient across the stack to develop hybrid mobile applications
- You have a solid understanding of effective modern software development practices, including TDD/BDD, DevSecOps, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines
- You have experience working in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- You have excellent communication skills and can explain technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical colleagues
- You have a proven can-do energy, proactively engaging in problems with curiosity and without boundaries
Desirable
- Experience implementing AI testing platforms
- Strong experience with PHP
- Strong experience with social/ensemble programming styles (pairing, mobbing)
- Start-up / scale-up experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced SDET to help design, build, and maintain Booost’s assistive education platform, contributing directly to tools that empower neurodivergent students’ learning. You’ll play a key role in developing and improving our product as we expand our reach and scale our technology to meet growing demand.
- You’ll be a capable and confident software developer, but your passion is quality - doing the right thing right. We’re a small team with lots of room for the right person to next-level our approach to delivering robust and reliable software.
- Champion and evolve best practice in quality management and automation
- Design, build, and maintain front-end and back-end features across our web and mobile platforms using React, Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS and any other languages, frameworks, platforms or tools necessary
- Produce and promote clean, maintainable, and automation-tested code & architecture respecting maintainability, adaptability, scalability, reliability, performance, security, and accessibility
- Collaborate continuously with product, design, and delivery to plan, scope, and deliver high-impact product features
- Challenge and shape technical direction while cultivating a safe space for engineering and other colleagues to grow and contribute to diverse decision making, collectively driving continuous improvement
- Proactively and effectively handling emergent issues of the day, identify, triage, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, supporting our focus on reliability and user trust
- Assure readiness of our technical assets including infrastructure with effective stack evolution over time, automations, architectural decisions records & other technical documentation, active metrics and observability
Application process
- 1. Apply with your profile through Welcome to the Jungle
- 2. Video call (20 minutes) with our Engineering Manager
- 3. Video Call (45 mins) with our Engineering Manager and Product Manager
- 4. Technical Interview via video call (90 mins) with our Engineering Manager and CTO
Our take
Wellness and organisation apps are a dime a dozen, but ones focused specifically on the well-being and practicalities of living with a learning difficulty are far fewer. Booost Education melds mental health support, diary and workload management, and routine building features into one platform.
With a team of disability needs assessors and UX designers behind the app, Booost is backed by founders with a solid understanding of what neurodiverse students need to help them succeed in the study. The product is currently live and available, both for UK students receiving the Disabled Students Allowance grant and for individuals, schools, colleges and universities.
Whilst apps such as Asana and Epic Win dominate the American market, there appears to be space for Booost in the UK software industry. That being said, Booost should partner with universities and DSA governing bodies to make sure it reaches as much of its target audience as possible, who must be convinced to use it regularly for it to make the biggest difference.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- 35-hour working week - flexible start & end times to suit your routine
- 28 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays – with the option to buy, sell or roll over days each year
- 5% company pension contribution through salary sacrifice
- Annual cost of living review
- Tech & Home setup allowance to get the equipment you need
- Private health insurance or a yearly wellbeing allowance
- Growth & Development - available resources and training to develop skills and facilitate career progression
- Away Days - two fully paid in-person away days per year
- Access to our EMI Scheme post successful probation
Company values
- Why? - Anyone can achieve great things with the right tools and opportunities. Booost wants to provide that to students across the UK
- What? - We create inclusive digital tools that overcome the barriers to education faced by many
- How? - We strive to understand the needs of students, and use human-centred design to solve their challenges.
Company HQ
Mansfield, UK
Leadership
Laura Penfold
(Director)Co-Founder and Director of Operations at Booost Education. Co-Founder of Ultima Education, using profits from this business to self-fund Booost's success.
Tim Jones
(Director)Co-founder & Director of Booost Education Ltd and Ultima Education Ltd.
Tony Allsopp
(Director and Head of Design)Previously Creative Director & Head of UX at OPEN Health, Digital Design Director at MBC Ltd, Senior Digital Designer at Zone Design and Lead Designer at Trimedia Group.
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