Senior Technical Lead Engineer

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Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool

Learning Pool is among the fastest growing e-learning companies in the world, servicing more than 2,000 customers and 24 million learners globally. Our expert team creates the content and technology solutions that engage and empower modern leaders , using pioneering technology and creative content that we build, deliver and maintain. We’re passionate about customer success and our customers trust us to deliver long lasting value, a great return on investment and excellent customer service.

Learning Pool welcomes passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds. We are a diverse team working in offices, and remotely, across Europe and North America. We take great pride in our shared work and are committed to building great software in a sustainable way.

So if you’ve got what we’re looking for and the desire to join a team that values creativity and empowerment, then get in touch. This role offers an excellent opportunity to get involved in and become part of the world of online learning.

About the role

The role offers opportunities to develop large-scale data processing solutions and to be involved in the future development of our MCP APIs for LLM Assistants.

The successful candidate will join our Product Services team, enhancing our product ecosystem by streamlining integration across internal and external systems—empowering implementation and support teams, reducing dev effort, and accelerating client onboarding.

Operationally, the team are using Scrum. Technically, the team tries to use the latest popular tools and processes to maintain relevant skills, right now that includes React on the front-end and Node with Postgres and a variety of AWS cloud services on the back-end.

For more information about our benefits and why you should join learning pool, read more here:

Location: Remote (preferably within the UK).

What you will be doing

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Define and own cross-team software engineering projects to timely completion, considering company standards and with rare guidance.
• Develop knowledge of customers, competitors, and the market to design and demonstrate solutions with an opinion on our future direction.
• Identify and utilise opportunities to simplify and innovate across our products to sustain and evolve them, improving our renewals, upsells, cross-sells, and new sales.
• Organise collaboration across departments, vendors, customers, and suppliers.
• Mentor teams and members at all levels to become more autonomous and develop their careers.
• Provide pastoral care, performance feedback, and leave approvals for up to 5 direct reports.
• Complete interview training and help with interviews.
• Develop documentation and new knowledge as necessary.
• Contribute to and follow the team’s working agreement.
• Constructively give, seek, and appreciate feedback.

Who we are looking for

The candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven experience: You will have 8+ experience as a Software Engineer or a similar role.
• Strong foundational knowledge: You will have above-average understanding of HTML, CSS, Git, Scrum, and AWS.
• Project ownership: You will be experienced in collaboratively prioritising and owning cross-team projects, applying critical thinking to solve complex problems.
• Technical leadership: You will have experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams simultaneously.
• Clear communication: You will be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Although not essential, it would advantageous if you had experience in the following:

Achievement of a level 4 qualification in Computer Science or a similar field.

1+ year direct management/leadership experience.

Working at Learning Pool

The Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.

Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People, listed annually in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For and wins numerous industry awards for our work with clients including the Queen\’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation) and recent Brandon Hall, Learning Technologies, e-Learning Industry, Stevie Customer Service and Institute of Customer Service awards.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm UK time on 18th August 2025.

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