Software Engineer, Steplab

£50-60k

Stock options available

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Junior and Mid level

London

1-5 days a week in office

Professional learning platform for schools and teachers

Job no longer available

Professional learning platform for schools and teachers

21-100 employees

B2BEducationTrainingLearningSaaS

Job no longer available

£50-60k

Stock options available

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Junior and Mid level

London

1-5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BEducationTrainingLearningSaaS

Company mission

To transform young people’s lives by giving teachers, coaches, and school leaders the tools they need to continuously improve. We believe great teachers change student lives — and we're building the technology to make that happen at scale.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Mid-level software engineer, or an experienced junior who is ready to progress
Experience working in Python
Comfortable working across the stack, on our Python back-end, as well as with our web-based front-end

Desirable

Familiarity with AWS and IaC

What the job involves

You’ll be part of a small, polyglot engineering team of 3 - our CTO, our Lead Engineer, and you!
You'll be working with our other engineers to design, build, ship and monitor new features from start to finish
We’re just at the start of our journey to become the most impactful and successful teacher training tool in the world. As part of this journey, we will be recruiting a large tech team. As the third person in this team, you’ll be in a unique position to develop your career as we grow, and to help lead our growing team.
Some of the recent projects we’ve worked on: creating a secure video recording and upload tool; allowing teachers to tag and edit videos of their classes; working with universities to use our platform for randomised controlled trials; automating our code testing and deployment pipelines. We’re looking for someone who can help build out new features, as well as help with foundational work on our platform

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Steplab Co-founders Joshua Goodrich and Ben Abelman have a broad and extensive set of experiences in the education system, from both the teaching and the operational perspectives. So the education solution they’re cooking up together, developing and testing a professional learning platform and new approaches to school improvement, comes from hand-on experience of industry pitfalls.

Steplab is looking to harness instructional coaching and data-driven insights to improve the quality of teaching. It is an approach that draws on insights from top educational researchers.

The UK is going through something of a crisis in the teaching workforce, as many defect to less stressful and better remunerated adjacent positions. A platform, therefore, that can offer a succinct and effective way of improving the quality of instruction is likely to prove popular among short-staffed headteachers looking to harness tech to improve their educational provision.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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)

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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