Lead Software Engineer / Web Developer - PHP . HTML, CSS, JS . MySQL . Git

Location: Twinkl HQ, Sheffield; or Hybrid

Annual Salary: Negotiable

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time 37.5hrs per week

Recruiter: Rikki Spencer-Cox

The Opportunity

Twinkl is the largest digital educational publisher in the UK and one of the largest in the world. We’re passionate about helping educators on a global scale and our teacher-created resources provide schemes of work, lesson planning and assessments right through to video, audio, online educational games, apps and augmented reality experiences... and so much more!

As a Lead Software Engineer / Web Developer, you’ll join one of Twinkl’s web development teams with a primary focus on one of the following main areas:

• Smaller project/feature work, site reliability engineering and codebase modernisation,
• Developing and supporting specific EdTech web applications & tooling,
• Larger and more complex project/feature work, or
• Start your own development team / bring your own EdTech project/idea

There is significant scope for flexibility and variety across our teams/roles plus common shared responsibilities and expectations - we appreciate “one size may not fit all” and we can discuss these roles and your particular passion, experience and professional goals at interview to find a great fit, then regularly review this as you grow.

Requirements

We are looking for team members who are excited and passionate about Twinkl’s values and education/EdTech as a whole. You’ll have a can-do attitude and be capable of working autonomously leading a team of 3 to 7 developers using agile values, principles and practices.

You’ll possess the skills and experience typical of someone who has recently spent at least ~five years implementing real world solutions using: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP (OO MVC) and MySQL (or other relational DB). You are confident you can hit the ground running with these technologies and are proficient with version control/deployment processes and software (Git).

Lead developers support senior staff and stakeholders in the day-to-day running of the team, department and business, taking responsibility for typical team/line management and team projects/processes/reporting as part of the role.

Getting to Know Each Other

After you apply, we'll review your application and one of our careers team will be in touch. If things seem like a good fit we'll send you over a few technical questions for you to complete whenever convenient. Our technical team will review these and invite you to undertake a further challenge. We love getting to know you and chatting through how you have approached this challenge via a face-to-face or virtual meeting; this is also a great opportunity for you to meet key team members and hear about what excites them about Team Twinkl.

We feel this approach gives the best chance for us to get to know you and for you to get to know us and understand the role, but at any point our team is on always hand to answer any questions and support you in your journey.

Benefits

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.

Here are a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process
• Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
• From day 1 - Westfield Health, 29 annual leave days per year plus up to four additional days that may be awarded each year by the company, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home, Twinkl subscription, access to a financial wellbeing coach and platform
• After probation - company sick pay and cycle to work scheme
• Long-term service reward after 2+ years of service - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay.

If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application/selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please include this at the foot of your cover letter. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.

We want to ensure that everyone has an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities to us. To let us know about any support/adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and information on how we will provide this, please use this form

Please note, any individual has the option to request reasonable adjustments. However, it is not mandatory when submitting your application.