Mid & Senior PHP Software Engineer, Wonde
£50-65k
Cloud-based school data management
Job no longer available
Cloud-based school data management
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£50-65k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Wonde's mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies to improve ways of working for the education sector.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with PHP and laravel
- Experience with cloud hosting providers - AWS (desirable)
- Experience coaching and mentoring up-and-coming developers (desirable)
- The capabilities and desire to work in a startup atmosphere
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with an innovative mindset
- Self-starter attitude, taking ownership and driving forward the work from conception to delivery
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team and to interact efficiently with others
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Mid & Senior Software Engineers to join our growing and talented engineering team to help us build the future of Wonde
- As a Software Engineer at Wonde, you will lead the creation of both frontend and backend applications and play a large part in shaping their architecture
- We use modern cloud-based technologies in Amazon Web Services and would be happy to use your existing knowledge or support you in learning more in this area
- You will quickly be able to make your mark by maintaining and developing our next generation of products and will be given the autonomy and freedom to create the developments how you see fit
- Maintaining and developing our next generation of products
- Contributing to the design and implementation of new and existing software
- Performing code assignments and collectively crafting high-quality code
- Contributing to the common code bases and standards for your team
- Reviewing code changes for accuracy, functionality, and risk
- Mentoring and supporting the Associate to Mid-level engineers where needed and appropriate
- Identify new ways of working, technology, and processes to improve efficiencies
Our take
A school’s student information system (SIS) works as a repository for crucial pupil data - but it doesn’t work particularly well. Traditionally, this data is tricky and costly to integrate with all the non-interoperable third-party apps required for teaching and pupil management. This leaves administrators and teachers updating systems manually, occupying valuable time and resources as well as opening up error and privacy vulnerabilities.
Wonde’s solution is a valuable one: schools upload and manage their school data onto a single platform, which is subsequently and automatically synched with third party apps of the school's choice. In this way, apps can be employed without developer delay, with less human error, and schools remain in command of their own data privacy.
Wonde has seen remarkable growth for its efforts too, bolstered by an impressively quick solution for free school’s meals that the company implemented in 2021. With nearly 25,000 schools using its technology in the UK and Australia (in the latter of which Wonde commands a 20% market share) it’s clear that Wonde has landed on a truly penetrative solution.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$2.6m
EARLY VC
Aug 2018
$1.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.1m
Company benefits
- 4 day working week
- Flexible working schedule/work from home opportunities
- Onsite gym and well-being (quiet room) facilities
- Buying and selling holiday scheme (unlimited)
- Additional holiday for length of service
- Annual allowance for volunteering days
- Monthly lunch club (on us)
- Comprehensive wellness programmes (think meditation retreats and continuous access to wellbeing apps/initiatives)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Eye examination scheme
- Financial contribution to the set up of work from home environments
- Use of new and leading technology in the form of apple products
- Frequent company funded social events
- Office closure between Christmas & New Year
- Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
- Comprehensive employee referral scheme
- Casual Dress Code
- Private Health Care
- Enhanced Pension
- Monthly shopping vouchers
Company HQ
Newmarket, UK
Leadership
Peter Dabrowa
(CEO)Previously founded Bug Interactive, then educational platform eSchools.
Jonathan Coleman
(CCO)Previously in senior leadership at Mounts Bay Academy, then moved into a regional manager position at Sports Leaders UK. Just prior to Wonde, held a leadership role at eSchools.
Philip Clifton
(CTO)CTO of Wonde.
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