Full Stack Developer

Location: Remote
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better.
We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day.
Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 12,000 schools and trusts—giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days.
At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity—but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education every day. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn.

Our Workflows team is building a new workflow automation platform at the core of Arbor’s Management Suite, helping schools streamline processes and operate more efficiently.
We are looking for a curious and ambitious Full Stack Developer (React / Node) to join our Workflows team and help us build, scale, and improve a modern SaaS platform. The remit and focus of the role is to design and deliver scalable features across the stack, own code from development through to deployment, and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge—if you’re a strong problem solver and a collaborative team player, this is the role for you.
You’ll be working across a Node-based stack on both front and back end projects, within a serverless AWS environment built using infrastructure-as-code. Our team operates in an Agile environment, where engineers are involved in the full lifecycle—from architecture decisions to deployment and optimisation.

Our Workflows team is building a new workflow automation platform at the core of Arbor’s Management Suite, helping schools streamline processes and operate more efficiently.
We are looking for a curious and ambitious Full Stack Developer (React / Node) to join our Workflows team and help us build, scale, and improve a modern SaaS platform. The remit and focus of the role is to design and deliver scalable features across the stack, own code from development through to deployment, and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge—if you’re a strong problem solver and a collaborative team player, this is the role for you.
You’ll be working across a Node-based stack on both front and back end projects, within a serverless AWS environment built using infrastructure-as-code. Our team operates in an Agile environment, where engineers are involved in the full lifecycle—from architecture decisions to deployment and optimisation.

Core responsibilities

• Contribute to design, architecture, and technical decision-making
• Build and maintain features across both front end (React) and back end (Node)
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code
• Analyse existing systems and implement improvements
• Own the full development lifecycle from design through to release
• Test, deploy, and monitor your own code to ensure high-quality releases
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the platform
• Recommend and implement improvements to performance, scalability, and reliability

The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:

• A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
• 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
• Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
• Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks 
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa 
• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
• 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
• Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching) 
• All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
• Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
• Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
• Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
• Dog friendly offices!

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We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at [email protected].

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. 

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively  encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: [email protected] 

Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.