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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Product and Engineering team.

Oak provides school teachers and pupils with the highest-quality curriculum and lesson resources across all subjects and age groups. In this role, you will work on our user-facing web applications using Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, and SQL to make our products easy and fun to use.

We work together in product squads alongside designers, researchers, and education experts, regularly releasing new features and improvements to give teachers and their pupils quick and easy access to the highest-quality learning resources.

Responsibilities

• Development of highly-responsive, accessible web-based user interfaces built using Typescript on Next.js

• Collaborate with the wider engineering team to build robust, well-tested products that deliver incredible user experiences

• Be the expert authority within the engineering team on several important aspects of the code base and maintain a good working knowledge of large parts of the technology stack

• Lead the implementation of new processes or tools that improve the user or developer experience

• Provide mentorship for less experienced colleagues

• Be part of our on-call rota to ensure users can access our products whenever and wherever they are

• Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required

• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation

• Deputise for more senior colleagues and take on other general responsibilities as required

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Proven professional experience building web-based applications with substantial experience with Typescript and React frameworks (ideally Next.js)

• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on digital product development

• Experience building automated test suites and understanding the value of different types of testing (e.g. unit vs integration)

• Proven experience in proposing and implementing new processes or tools that improve Developer Experience (DevEx) and lead to higher-quality products

• Desire to build beautiful, easy-to-use digital products with an understanding of the importance of accessibility in all its forms

• Great communication and collaborative skills

The successful candidate will have a desire to contribute in all areas to ensure Oak is successful. You will be comfortable working at pace with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required), and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will be excellent at working as part of a remote team, building relationships and managing your time effectively.

Next steps

You’ll answer some questions related to your day-to-day job. After the advert closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next stage, which will consist of a remote technical interview and a technical pairing session conducted over Zoom. This will last approximately two hours.

We love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process we'll share how well you performed.

We are aiming to start interviews in mid-Feb 2025.

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.