Senior Product Engineer (React Native)

Location: Remote

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000

About us

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 7,000 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 everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. 

About the role

We are looking for a highly-technical and diligent Senior Product Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us build mobile applications used by millions of parents, students, and school staff, using React Native. The remit and focus of the role is to be a key individual contributor, driving technical excellence, implementing robust and scalable solutions, and championing best practices. Working closely with the team’s Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, and Product Manager, this role requires the hands-on expertise and technical judgement needed to guide delivery and ensure the long-term health of our mobile technology. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re  collaborative and a good team player, this is the role for you.

Core responsibilities

• Contribute to the build of the mobile application architecture, selecting appropriate libraries and tools to ensure our products are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Write clean, high-quality, and well-tested React Native code, setting a high standard for the team.
• Adhere to and promote established coding standards, and actively contribute to the organisation’s automated testing frameworks to enable a quality-first culture.
• Work closely with the Tech Lead, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, QA, Designers, and other Engineers to ensure technical delivery is aligned with product strategy and the organisation’s API strategy.
• Play a role in hiring and onboarding, and support the mentoring of junior engineers where required.
• Actively ensure non-functional requirements like performance, reliability, and security are addressed in all solution designs.
• Ensure accountability by making sure systems are observable and meet agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Contribute to Root Cause Analysis when issues occur.
• Provide accurate estimation and feasibility assessments, making sure plans are realistic and aligned with team skills and capacity.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt to ensure long-term product health and maintainability.

Requirements

About you

• Significant professional experience building, shipping, and maintaining complex mobile applications using React Native.
• Experience with enterprise-scale or high-availability app and systems.
• Proven experience taking a mobile application from initial concept through to a successful launch on the App Store and/or Google Play.
• Strong grounding in engineering principles and design patterns (e.g. SOLID, DRY).
• Deep experience designing, consuming, and collaborating on RESTful APIs, with a strong understanding of mobile-centric API requirements.
• Familiarity with observability practices (monitoring, metrics, alerting) and Root Cause Analysis.
• Understanding of secure coding and compliance requirements.
• Experience with mentoring engineers, and a passion for fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Agile facilitation (Scrum/Kanban) and continuous improvement.

Bonus skills

• Native mobile development experience (Swift/Kotlin) for building bridges or performance-critical components.
• Hands-on experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for React Native applications (e.g., using tools like Fastlane, Bitrise, or GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of the PHP ecosystem, to better facilitate backend collaboration.

Benefits

What we offer

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!

Interview process

1. Phone screen
2. 1st stage
3. 2nd stage

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 careers@arbor-education.com.

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

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation

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. 

Refer a friend 

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: careers@arbor-education.com 

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