Senior Software Engineer

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 be working with engineering, product and research colleagues to build confidence using observability principles that aids our understanding of our users and help us continually improve our products.

As a young organisation we have been able to leverage the latest technologies to rapidly build and deliver the game changing products we have. 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.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THE ROLE EARLY

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

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.

Benefits

Below is a selection of just some of our benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus one day for each year in service (maximum of 28 days)
• Additional 'Oak closure days' at Christmas/New Year
• 11% employer contribution to pension with no minimum employee contribution
• Our full-time hours are 36 per week. We work a half day each Friday or every other Friday off
• We are a fully remote organisation. We’ll help you get set up to work comfortably and provide options for working in a shared office space if preferable
• We are remotely based across the UK, yet come together in person for termly offsites to make great things happen and build stronger connections (and have fun!)

If Oak sounds like somewhere you could do your life’s best work then we would love to hear from you. We use Applied platform to support diversity in our recruitment.

Oak is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We particularly encourage applications from Black and minority ethnic candidates who are currently under-represented.