Staff Software Engineer, Raspberry Pi Foundation
£64-70k
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Charity helping young people learn computing and digital making
Be an early applicant
Charity helping young people learn computing and digital making
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£64-70k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.
Role
Who you are
- You will have a significant focus on continuous improvement, proactively acting on opportunities to improve the technology, toolings and ways of working around you
- You will have worked directly with non-technical stakeholders, gathering requirements and coordinating with other teams
- You have experience leading other engineers and implementing best engineering practices in an Agile Environment
- Experience developing engineering talent through mentoring and coaching
- Led complex technical delivery projects in an Agile environment
- In depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Node.js/Express or front end web frameworks (such as React) and significant experience with RDBMS (such as PostgreSQL)
- Deep technical expertise and excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills, including in debugging opaque distributed system issues without clear causal chains
- Experience optimising the performance of distributed systems. Including instrumenting services for performance metrics, monitoring performance and using the insights gained to design performant systems
- A track record of implementing proactive security tooling techniques, measures and practices
- A proven track record of architecting and managing infrastructure on platforms such as Heroku, Cloudflare, and AWS, using tools and services such as Terraform and CircleCI
- Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and define elegant technical solutions
- An in-depth knowledge of engineering patterns and standards
- Experience writing documentation for a variety of technical and non-technical audiences, including specifications, architecture proposals, Request for
- Experience appropriately communicating technology decisions to a variety of stakeholders
- Experience disseminating Agile ways of working and best practices across teams and organisations
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead and set an example for our engineering teams
- In this role you will take on the technical leadership of our products and services, setting an example for your team to follow and sharing best practices in all technical domains
- You will have impact across multiple teams as you set standards and ways of working, making important technical decisions on projects and services that will directly impact hundreds of thousands of users
- You’ll be an expert in at least one technical domain, and engineers across the organisation will consult you for advice
- You’ll be given the space to take a long-term view in your technical decisions, and will spend time working on improving the team processes, practices, tools and ways of working, working on your team, as well as in your team
- We strive to make the Foundation a place where talented people who care about our mission can do the best work of their careers
- We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work
- If you’re the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be working with an exceptional team
- Act as technical lead on the Foundation’s various products and services
- Write code that serves as an example of best practice in security, accessibility, performance and robustness to the rest of your team
- Propose and implement architectural solutions to solve the Foundation's technical challenges, building highly scalable and robust web applications and systems
- Set an example for the members of your delivery team and across the engineering organisation, leading by example through code reviews, writing secure and scalable code, and by following a test-driven approach
- Share your knowledge proactively through the mentoring and coaching of senior engineers
- Accelerate delivery teams and projects through finding practical solutions to blocking technical issues and defining an effective development process
- Be accountable for the quality of the code for your team, with ownership of the technical aspects and architecture of key projects
- Continuously improve quality in your work and support others to do the same, providing technical and architectural support to other delivery teams
- Define and own the technical operations of your team’s products and services
- Articulate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a clear focus on user needs and business value
Application process
- Closing date: 27th May 2025 0900 GMT
- Phone screen: Week commencing 19th of May through to 6th of June 2025
- First-round interview: Week commencing Monday 9th of June 2025
- Second-round interview: Week commencing Monday 16th of June 2025
Our take
Raspberry Pi includes the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is a UK-based charity aiming to help young people acquire computing skills, and Raspberry Pi Ltd, which sells low-cost boards and ancillary equipment.
The company's business model involves selling low-cost single board computers and donating all the profits to its foundation. The foundation's activity consists in collaborating with schools to provide students with the opportunity to learn programming skills using its credit-card-sized computer, while also providing training for teachers
The Single Board Computer (SBC) Market size was valued at over $1 billion in 2020. In an attempt to increase its market share, the company raised $45 million in 2021 which was invested in developing its production capacity and expanding its product line of Pi microprocessors. Off the back of two rounds of growth equity funding in 2023, the company aspires to see its little computer being used by kids all over the world in their journey to learn programming.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$45m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Generous annual leave
- Retirement contribution
- Private medical cover
- Family leave policy
- Commitment to flexible working
- Wellbeing programme (Subscription to Headspace, weekly yoga and a dedicated Employee Assistance Programme)
- Life insurance
- Continued learning and development
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Eben Upton
(CEO)Previously Software Engineer at IBM for 10 months, Founder and CTO at Ideaworks3D for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Intel Corporation for 7 months and Director of Studies in Computer Science at St John's College - Cambridge for 3 years.
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