Location: Trivandrum

About us

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. 

We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day. 

Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days. 

At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. 

About the role

We are looking for a collaborative and technical Platform Engineer (3 to 5 years experience) to join our Platform team and help us solve Platform Engineering problems by developing PHP solutions. The remit and focus of the role is to combine expertise in PHP Enterprise Systems development with a focus on software architecture, distributed programming, and systems architecture to develop scalable and performant platform components. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a knowledgeable and proactive person, this is the role for you.

Core responsibilities

• Develop core platform components to aid reusability and stability of the system
• Work with Head of Platform Engineering/SRE to identify and progress platform improvements related to stability, scalability, and performance
• Work with the QA automation framework to ensure functionality is delivered to a high quality
• Work with DevOps Engineers to understand application impacts and system performance and stability, and work with engineering teams to rectify
• Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives
• Contribute to the platform code base and framework which is used by Product Engineers across Engineering

About you

• Experience of PHP at scale through frameworks such as Symfony
• Experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services
• Enterprise Software design patterns and their implementation in real-world enterprise systems
• Experience of message queuing and/or streaming systems such as SQS, ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS Firehose
• Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS MySQL Aurora)
• Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar observability tools
• A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving
• A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions

Bonus skills

• Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale
• Familiarity with Scrum methodology or other agile development processes
• Experience with Docker and containerisation
• Experience with AWS or other Cloud Infrastructure
• Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc.

Interview process

1. Phone screen
2. 1st stage
3. 2nd stage

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. 

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation

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. 

Refer a friend 

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.