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Arbor has a large product suite serving thousands of schools, built up over a decade, with 15+ core product teams shipping every day.
We have lofty commercial targets that require us to quickly evolve our systems and application architecture.
We need a Staff Engineer to lead and drive this shift.
You'll own architecture and technical strategy across our core products.
You'll set direction for teams you don't manage whilst supporting R&D’s rapid evolution to AI-native.
Expect to spend as much time getting Leads and Product Directors bought into an approach as you spend designing it.
You're the right fit if you:
• Own and deliver clear target architectures, strategies and roadmaps to support our product suite and strategic direction.
• Have set architectural direction across 3 or more teams, not one or two
• Can demonstrate excellent commercial and customer understanding alongside strong technical foundations
• Have taken a large systems or products through major architectural shifts, and are honest about what went wrong
• Have worked in product-led scale ups or been through major transformations, where success takes tenacity and high energy
This isn't for you if you:
• Want a role shipping code. The job is technical strategic direction and coaching
• Want to stick to one domain and go deep. This role goes where the value is
• Design, document and hand over. You own whether we deliver, not the diagram
• Only enjoy the technical side of the work. You'll be in the room with product and commercial constantly
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We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com .
Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice.
Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: careers@arbor-education.com
Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
UK SaaS provider of school management information systems and administrative tools for schools and multi-academy trusts.
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