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Senior Python Engineer, PHP
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
£75K - £85K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Python Engineer, PHP
Arbor Education
• Build, maintain and scale platform-level back-end services to enhance and serve our core products. • Leverage these capabilities to build and ship new features within the core Arbor product suite. • Own the successful delivery of high-impact features, directly contributing to the advancement of Arbor products. • Drive the development and implementation of advanced tests for new and existing features, ensuring high test coverage and reliability standards. • Proactively identify, take ownership of, and resolve critical system bugs and issues using advanced problem-solving skills and comprehensive system knowledge. • Maintain high code quality standards through thorough, constructive code reviews, ensuring solutions are well-tested, scalable, and maintainable. • Produce well-architected, efficient, and scalable code by applying industry-leading design patterns and methodologies. • Create and maintain thorough technical documentation and diagrams that promote best practices and ensure clear communication. • Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, QA Engineer, and Product Manager to address feature requests. • Support the Engineering Manager with interviews, scrum ceremonies, and the implementation of strategies to improve and optimise product quality and lead time, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the development lifecycle and processes. • Support the Tech Lead in developing technical roadmap solution designs, identifying areas for improvement, prioritising, and executing technical debt reduction. • Act as a role model for technical excellence through code reviews, pair programming, and actively mentoring and coaching mid-level and junior engineers in best practices, fostering knowledge transfer within the team. • Actively lead and participate in tech talks, workshops, and team-based learning initiatives.
Job Requirements
- Demonstrable experience building back-end services in Python and/or PHP
- Comfortable working with both technologies in the long-term
- Experience with enterprise solutions and large-scale systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and best practices for data modelling and performance optimisation.
- Proven experience in managing large, technical projects and delivering high-quality, impactful results with minimal supervision.
- Proven experience designing and writing APIs and services within a service-oriented environment.
- Applies best practices and software engineering principles (e.g., SOLID, DRY) effectively.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software best practices, including refactoring, writing clean code, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Test Automation.
- Understands Scrum methodology or other agile development processes.
- Demonstrates leadership through collaboration, mentorship, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Possesses excellent written and spoken English skills, with the ability to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A driven team player who actively participates in discussions and readily offers assistance to others.
- Nice to Have: Prior professional experience building back-end services in both PHP & Python
- Domain experience within the UK Ed-Tech space.
- PHP: Laminas /Symphony; Python: Fast API.
- Service decomposition
Benefits
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
- Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
- Dog friendly offices!
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