Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer

Position: Staff Software Engineer

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Location:
Cambridge / Remote / Hybrid

Salary: £64,000 - £70,000 p.a. full-time equivalent, dependent on experience

Basis:
Permanent full-time, part-time, or flexible

Eligibility:
You must be eligible to work in the UK

The role

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Our products achieve this mission by providing high-quality learning experiences, online and for free, that engage and inspire young people to explore computing and digital making outside of school.

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.

Your Responsibilities

• 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

Experience And Personal Attributes

We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth, and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here. We also welcome applicants from non-traditional backgrounds, such as those returning to work, leaving military service, or having recently changed careers.

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.

You should have:

• 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…