IMP Software

A leading educational software company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead to lead technical delivery and make design decisions. This role requires strong experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, and architectural patterns. As a hands-on technical leader, you will guide the effective use of AI coding tools and ensure high code quality. Enjoy flexible working, generous leave, and a culture focused on collaboration and growth.

Overview Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead Reporting to: Engineering Manager Location: Remote Salary: Dependant on experience About IMP At IMP we help Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) take control of their finances. Our MAT-first software is built by people who know the sector inside out. Former trust professionals, finance experts and product specialists are all part of our team. More than half of all MATs in the UK already use IMP to plan with confidence, simplify complex processes and make smarter decisions. We're proud to be independent, founder-led and growing fast. Alongside our award-winning products, we've built a culture we're equally proud of. We are ranked as one of the UK's Top 25 Great Places to Work for mid-sized companies. Respect, collaboration and personal growth sit at the heart of how we work. You'll find flexibility, support and opportunities to develop here, alongside regular team socials and funded CPD. Role Description: You'll lead technical delivery within a solution area: working with product to break down customer needs into features, making design decisions, and ensuring what ships is solid. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not people management. AI & Tools We use AI coding tools extensively to accelerate development. You'll guide their effective use while applying your own judgment for complex problems, code quality, and architectural decisions. We see these tools as amplifiers for skilled engineers, not replacements. You'll need strong mental models to know good code from bad, whether it came from a human or an LLM. Key responsibilities: Decompose new products into value-driven deliverable features Make technical design decisions and take them through architecture review Write code, review code, and guide implementation quality Work with systems through iterative, evolutionary patterns-not big rewrites Respond to production incidents and feed learnings back into how we build Help the team use AI tools effectively You'll work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and QA Engineers. The sprint cycle is real here: standups, refinement, planning, review, and retro. We ship regularly. Skills, experience, and attributes: Essentials: Strong experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, and system design (or a demonstrably strong statically typed backend stack with willingness to learn ours) Hands-on with architectural patterns: DDD, Clean Architecture, event-driven, SOA Track record of owning technical design decisions (not just implementing someone else's) Good judgment on code quality-you can spot security, performance, and maintainability issues Ability to break complex problems into pieces that a team can execute Clear communication across technical and business conversations Comfort working with AI coding tools; we use them extensively Valuable Product-based SaaS experience Cloud infrastructure (App Services, Function Apps, Blob Storage, Service Bus, Messaging, Kafka) CI/CD and DevOps practices Experience with React or other modern frontend technologies, we value exposure to diverse, best-in-class tooling across the stack Experience level: 6+ years in software development, with 2+ years making architectural decisions. Ideally, from a product company at the growth stage. Benefits: 24 days for you to book and 8 days that are automatically allocated for bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days) Enhance Maternity and Paternity leave AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health Broadband allowance Home office stipend Life assurance (4 x basic salary) Encouraged and funded CPD

A leading software company is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance its testing processes. The successful candidate will focus on automating tests while maintaining manual testing practices during this transition phase. You'll collaborate closely with product managers and developers to create a robust test automation framework. Essential experience includes software testing in Agile settings, familiarity with automation frameworks, and clear communication skills. The role offers the chance to help shape testing strategies in a dynamic, growing company.

Overview Job Title: QA Engineer Reporting to: Head of Product Location: Remote Salary: Up to £65,000 dependant on experience About IMP At IMP we help Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) take control of their finances. Our MAT-first software is built by people who know the sector inside out. Former trust professionals, finance experts and product specialists are all part of our team. More than half of all MATs in the UK already use IMP to plan with confidence, simplify complex processes and make smarter decisions. We're proud to be independent, founder-led and growing fast. Alongside our award-winning products, we've built a culture we're equally proud of. We are ranked as one of the UK's Top 25 Great Places to Work for mid-sized companies. Respect, collaboration and personal growth sit at the heart of how we work. You'll find flexibility, support and opportunities to develop here, alongside regular team socials and funded CPD. About the Role We're looking for a QA Engineer to join us at an exciting inflection point. Our product has grown significantly with a foundation of manual testing, and we're now ready to invest seriously in test automation. This isn't a role where you'll inherit a mature automation framework-you'll help build it from the ground up. You'll be embedded in a product squad, working alongside developers and product managers to ensure quality is built into our software from the start, not bolted on at the end. While manual testing remains important during this transition, your focus will progressively shift toward designing and implementing automated test suites that give us confidence to ship faster. This role suits someone who enjoys both the craft of testing and the satisfaction of building systems that scale. You should be comfortable with ambiguity-we know where we want to go, but the path will be shaped by whoever joins us. What You'll Do Quality Strategy & Prevention Participate in refinement sessions, identifying risks and edge cases before development begins Collaborate with developers and product managers to define clear, testable acceptance criteria Champion shift-left testing practices-finding defects when they're cheapest to fix Help establish quality gates and standards that the whole team owns Test Automation Development Design and build our test automation framework, selecting appropriate tools and patterns Write automated tests at multiple levels: unit test support, API testing, and end-to-end UI tests Integrate automated tests into our CI/CD pipeline so quality feedback is fast and reliable Create maintainable, readable test code that the whole team can contribute to Establish patterns for test data management and environment configuration Manual Testing & Exploration Execute manual testing for new features and complex scenarios where automation isn't yet practical Perform exploratory testing to find issues that scripted tests miss Regression test critical paths while building automation coverage Document defects clearly with reproduction steps and impact assessment Continuous Improvement Track and report on quality metrics-test coverage, defect trends, automation ROI Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness Share knowledge with the team through documentation, pairing, and informal training Stay current with testing tools, techniques, and industry best practices What We're Looking For Essential Solid experience in software testing within an Agile environment Hands-on experience with at least one test automation framework (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar) Comfortable writing code-we don't expect you to be a developer, but you should be able to write and debug test scripts confidently Experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, or similar) Understanding of CI/CD concepts and how automated testing fits into deployment pipelines Strong analytical skills-you can break down complex features into testable scenarios Clear communication-you can explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders Self-directed learning-you'll need to research tools, solve problems, and grow your skills Valuable (but we can develop) Experience building automation frameworks from scratch, not just adding to existing ones Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript (our likely automation stack) Experience with database testing and SQL Understanding of performance or security testing fundamentals Experience in a product-based SaaS environment ISTQB or equivalent certification What This Role Isn't We want to be upfront about what you're signing up for: This isn't a pure manual testing role-if you're not interested in automation, this won't be the right fit This isn't a role with an established framework waiting for you-you'll be building, not just maintaining This isn't a siloed QA function-you'll be deeply integrated with developers and product This isn't a role for someone who needs detailed specifications for every task-we work iteratively and value initiative Our Tech Stack You don't need experience with all of these, but familiarity with similar technologies helps: Web application built with modern JavaScript frameworks RESTful APIs SQL databases Git for version control Azure DevOps Benefits 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days) Enhance Maternity and Paternity leave AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health Broadband allowance Home office stipend Life assurance (4 x basic salary) Encouraged and funded CPD