Description

Salary: £31,873 per annum

Contract: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Full-time Monday to Friday 35 hours per week 

Location: Based at our Head Office in Lancaster. Flexible working available.

Where would you fit in?

The role

We are looking for 2 Software Engineers to assist in the creation of products, as well as helping to support our existing portfolio of software intervention products.

You will work as part of a team tasked with the development of new software products for the education market. Coupled with developing new products, you will also be expected to support and maintain existing products.

This role offers successful candidate the opportunity to work in a forward thinking, and fast changing company with the software that could make a real difference to people with learning difficulties such as dyslexia or dyscalculia.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To develop new software products.
• To support and maintain existing products.
• To contribute to the design and functionality of the software, testing and supporting new features.
• To help composing software packages ready for market.

For the full Job Description, please click here

About you

You will have strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, and be highly organised with ability to work independently.

The role will require you to have skills in the programming languages used for developing web-based applications such as JavaScript, Rust, TypeScript, and HTML 5.

It is essential that you have experience working with modern build and deploy tools including Docker.

Experience of the Angular platform for building web applications would be a real advantage and will set you apart!

About us

International Dyslexia Learning Solutions (IDLS) provides specialist multi-sensory software programmes to primary and secondary schools in the UK and internationally. The focus of IDLS is to provide learning solutions to those with literacy and numeracy needs.  Today the software is used by thousands of children across the world. 

IDLS is part of the wider Ascentis group of companies with around 170 people with ongoing growth. Ascentis is a charity and leading awarding body, working across the UK and internationally to provide life changing opportunities through our range of qualifications.

Working here you have the ‘feel good factor’, knowing that what you do makes a difference, but this is blended with our commercially minded approach which ensures we succeed and grow. In fact, we are proud to say that we have exceeded many of our KPIs throughout the pandemic and as such offer a reassuring level of career security. We have also recently invested in a state of the art, brand new office - take a look at our website for more! You’ll be based in our amazing office in Lancaster.

The Ascentis group of companies is made up of brilliant people, unique in terms of background, personality, characteristics, experience and skill. We value our people for the differences they bring to the table and believe this diversity is powerful. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Find out what our employees have to say about working at Ascentis watch the video found here.

So, what are you waiting for?

If you like the sound of the role and the organisation, and you think the above attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you.

Further Information

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