Senior Software Engineer - Educator Experience (Hybrid, UK)

International Baccalaureate; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits allowance

Pension 10% employer

Family-friendly benefits

25 days annual leave

Life assurance 4x

Flexible working hours

CPD

Volunteer leave

Job summary

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Educator Experience domain in Cardiff. You will provide senior technical leadership across educator-facing systems, ensuring scalable platforms and high-quality delivery.

You will collaborate with product, UX, data and business stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with educator needs. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will drive platform modernisation, governance, and reliable delivery rhythms

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a senior software engineer or technical lead delivering and operating large-scale digital platforms.
• Strong practical knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secure development, automated testing and reliability engineering.
• Strong full-stack experience with Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Node.js.
• Experience integrating headless CMS platforms, including Sanity CMS, with frontend frameworks and APIs.
• Scrum-based Agile project delivery; mentoring engineers; improving platform reliability and performance.
• Understanding of security, data protection and GDPR for digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across educator-facing systems, improving platform performance, resilience and the educator experience.
• Guide product and test engineers in cross-functional squads, supporting consistent engineering standards and high-quality delivery.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for educator content and professional learning applications, informing trade-offs and protecting system integrity.
• Apply and reinforce strong engineering practices across architecture, code quality, testing, security and operational performance.
• Constructively challenge technical approaches to modernise systems, reduce technical debt and improve delivery outcomes.
• Review vendor outputs, ensuring alignment with IB engineering standards and integration requirements.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, sequencing, dependencies and cross-domain implications.
• Support platform consolidation and architectural simplification while escalating significant risks.
• Maintain operational stability while enabling iterative product development and longer-term technical evolution.
• Build relationships with product, UX, data and business stakeholders to align delivery with educator and school needs.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Technical lead

Cloud platforms

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Automated testing

Reliability engineering

Angular

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Sanity CMS

Agile / Scrum

Mentoring

GDPR / security

Tools

Sanity CMS

Job description

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Educator Experience domain in Cardiff. You will provide senior technical leadership across educator-facing systems, ensuring scalable platforms and high-quality delivery.

You will collaborate with product, UX, data and business stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with educator needs. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will drive platform modernisation, governance, and reliable delivery rhythms