Senior Software Engineer in Houghton-Le-Spring

Renaissance® is a global leader in education technology. We help schools and school groups in the UK and around the world with educational assessments, practice and intervention solutions, and data analytics. Renaissance now incorporates GL Assessment (known internationally as GL Education), too – a leading provider of educational assessments. Together, our assessments offer the ideal starting point to help teachers understand their students’ strengths and pinpoint areas of need. Our teaching and learning tools then provide effective next steps, with online literacy and maths solutions that meet students exactly where we are. Worldwide, we support over 18 million students, operating in over 100 countries.

As a Software Developer with Renaissance, you’ll primarily work with the Microsoft platform using tools such as Azure, .Net and Angular. With us you’ll deliver quality software to meet customer and commercial needs. We want people to come and share their experience of best practice and help us adapt it to Renaissance as we modernise our ways of working.

• Work closely with your team leader and peers to prepare and deliver value for your customers.
• Work closely with more senior members of your team to co-ordinate and deliver work.
• Provide and receive quality feedback to/from team members to aid your personal development.
• Solution Coding and appropriate testing to meet business requirements.
• Follow and contribute to defined team standards.
• Deliver tasks and create effective solutions to tackle problems of well defined but small scope within the team's domain.
• Make visible steps towards independently owning parts of projects or initiatives, being able to analyse and break down the problem, define incremental solutions and communicate them effectively.
• Demonstrate ownership of smaller problem spaces, repeatedly achieving successful outcomes for those problems.
• Implement solutions that solve the problem, are easy to understand and follow established best practices.

• We are ideally looking for someone with either Edtech or SaaS experience with experience in designing and implementing complex software.
• Relevant experience with an industry-recognised software development lifecycle process.
• Proven experience of commercial software development.
• Ideally experience of working in structured Agile teams.
• Experience with relevant design principles and best practice.
• Experience with tools that automate or assist the development process.
• Experience in software design, database and development skills.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex software issues including in unfamiliar code.
• Demonstrate awareness of key principles in their discipline/domain (accessibility, performance, strategy, data quality etc) and have evidence of actioning them.
• Show understanding of the key motivations and needs of customers/stakeholders.
• Make sure there is consistent, steady progress on work assigned to them.
• Proactively communicate progress to their team, attempts to unblock themselves, but seeks timely guidance when needed.
• Makes consistent contributions to various meetings/ceremonies.
• Ability to communicate clearly at all levels and across functions.

• 25 Days holiday (3 to be used for our Christmas shutdown).
• A day off for your birthday to help you celebrate.
• Access to a benefits and discount platform with access to 1,000’s of discounts at retailers, leisure attractions and restaurants (provided by Reward Gateway).
• Flexible working options and childcare benefits via salary sacrifice.
• Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution to 8%.
• EAP support.
• Office events and 5 volunteering days.

We have an ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and have taken strides to become a more welcoming and inclusive workplace, including the introduction of our DEI Matters Network which is owned and driven by our staff. We are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within our organisation. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend any interview, please contact us and we will talk this through with you. All your information will be kept confidential according to GDPR guidelines. Please note that we can only consider applicants who already hold a full work permit. This role is subject to DBS and background checks.