At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop and enhance middleware solutions for seamless integration across platforms.
- Company: Join Arden University, a multi-award-winning institution focused on innovation in education.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days holiday, a generous pension plan, and free courses for you and your family.
- Other info: Dynamic remote work environment with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of a passionate team making education accessible while working with cutting-edge cloud technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience in software development, particularly with TypeScript, Python, and cloud services.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum
Employment type: Permanent
Hours per week: 37
Reporting into: Lead Integration Developer
Department: IT
This role operates primarily on a remote working arrangement that will require little to no travel into our Coventry head office or local campus.
About Arden University:
We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.
About our Department:
This Software Engineer role sits within the Cloud Platform team as part of the wider IT Department. The Team is responsible for the design, development and continuous enhancement of the organisation's middleware solutions and integration services. The wider IT team is made up of around 60 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and IT Security.
About the Opportunity:
The role plays a critical part in enabling reliable message delivery, translation and validation between core business platforms through the ownership of a robust, scalable and future proof middleware products. By embedding complex and non-standard requirements within a flexible middleware framework, the role empowers the business to unlock advanced capabilities and realise process improvements that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. Their work drives the organisation’s evolution toward a well-architected, seamlessly integrated ecosystem of products and services. The role also carries operational responsibility for the performance and reliability of the middleware platform in production, including the delivery of secure and compliant integrations that meet internal standards and industry best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working closely with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders.
- Utilising AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, S3, DynamoDB, IAM and CloudWatch.
- Solid understanding of software development principles, including design patterns, architecture, and methodologies - particularly in middleware and service integration.
- Practical knowledge of event-driven architectures, leveraging services such as SNS, SQS, and Lambda triggers.
- Hands-on experience working in a DevOps environment, utilising infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in writing and debugging code using TypeScript (Node.js) and Python.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly AWS CDK and Terraform.
- Exposure to unit testing, integration testing, and automated test frameworks.
- Practical experience with Git-based workflows and operational methodologies such as GitOps.
- Proven experience designing and developing robust, scalable serverless applications in the cloud.
- Experience integrating with managed databases such as DynamoDB, Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), or similar.
Desirable requirements:
- Experience working within a security framework such as PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, and ISO 27001, ensuring compliance and security best practices are met.
- Experience working with agile methodologies, collaborating in sprints, managing releases, and delivering incremental, high-quality software.
- Hands-on experience with Azure services, including Resource Groups, Service Bus, Azure Logic Apps, Function Apps, API Management.
Why Arden:
At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students' journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits.
- 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
- A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
- SimplyHealth plan option
- Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)
- Access to Perkbox benefits
- Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends
- Plus, other excellent benefits
- Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
Our Values: Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.
Closing Date: 20th Aug
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.
If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.
Remote Software Engineer (Cloud & Integration) employer: Arden University
Arden University is an excellent employer for those seeking a fulfilling role in higher education, particularly in Birmingham. With a strong commitment to flexible working arrangements, competitive pay, and a supportive work culture, we prioritise employee growth and development, ensuring that our Associate Lecturers thrive in their teaching careers while making a meaningful impact on students' lives.
