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The Key Support Services

Education software and MIS for schools

Engineering Lead

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in UK£85kRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A senior engineer who still ships, with strong recent experience of modern web stacks including TypeScript, React, Node, and Python.
  • Daily, enthusiastic use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or similar, with a track record of raising others’ AI-assisted practice.
  • Proven leadership of a team as a tech lead, lead engineer, or manager of a small team, including architectural ownership and mentoring.
  • Comfort with discovery, trading scope with product peers, and offering alternatives rather than blockers.
  • Line management experience, or clear readiness for it with support.
  • Excellent written and spoken English for product peers and engineers alike.

Responsibilities

  • Code regularly alongside the squad, setting the quality bar through personal work and code review.
  • Own the architecture of the squad’s applications and services, including long-term codebase health and safe operability after launch.
  • Act as the squad’s tech lead under the Product Operating Model, participating as a peer in weekly discovery and providing feasibility sign-off on product briefs before work enters the sprint board.
  • Ship tested working code to main every sprint and launch on the termly cadence.
  • Join customer conversations often enough to stay in direct contact with the problem.
  • Line-manage the squad through regular one-to-ones, development plans, and honest performance conversations.
  • Build an engaged, sustainable squad culture as part of the engineering leadership group.
  • Work agentic-first by default and drive adoption across the squad.
  • Contribute to shared agentic practice across the engineering organisation, including skills, tooling, and codebase AI health.
  • Coordinate with other squad leads, the Staff Engineer, and the Platform and Core squads on shared services and dependencies.
  • Consume shared AI services rather than rebuilding them, flagging cross-squad constraints early.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building LLM-powered product features.
  • Experience in SaaS, EdTech, or compliance.
  • Comfort with a small-company pace and legacy code alongside greenfield work.

About the Company

The Key Support Services

Education software and MIS for schools

The Key Group provides subscription-based education software, data, and services for UK schools and trusts. Its offerings include The Key Leaders—an extensive library of leadership articles, templates, policies, and news—and cloud-native management information systems (MIS) that replace paper processes and support governance. Through acquisitions like Arbor, ScholarPack, RM Integris, and RM Finance, it now serves about one-third of UK schools and enables hyper-personalised benchmarking with nationally representative data. The company differentiates itself by combining a broad, continually updated information service with scalable MIS and policy resources, backed by a large school network, to help schools improve, reduce workload, and stay compliant.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2007

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