Software Consultant

ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

Getting code into production: Ability to get code of all types—including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes, and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way.

Front end web development : Ability to design, create and evolve user-facing applications to be scalable, maintainable, secure, aesthetic and usable within the constraints imposed by the browser using a combination of languages, design skills, and client-side scripts and frameworks.

Backend development : Ability to write, maintain and design the business logic of a software application, the data or services requested are available as well as create and maintain the core databases, data and application program interfaces (APIs) to other backend processes.

Requirement Analysis and Articulation: Ability to use relevant artifacts, approaches and processes to understand and communicate what is required and why it is required.

Estimation: Ability to apply various estimation techniques to predict the most realistic amount of effort required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy input.

Test Driven Development: designs and develops tests so as to specify and validate what the code will do with the goal to make the code clearer, simple and bug-free.

Clean Code: applies state-of-art practices of software design and programming. The understanding of the principles, patterns and practices of writing clean code that is easy to evolve.

Continuous Integration: Ability to write code in a way that supports Continuous Integration of code, that is, frequently committing changes to a single trunk or master.

Performance & Scalability Engineering: Ability to assess, recommend, design, implement, optimize, and troubleshoot measures to ensure systems perform as needed. This includes responsiveness, coping with traffic load, coping with large data sets, and processing times.

Securing Applications: Ability to design and implement software which exhibits good security properties and which avoids common weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

• 3-5 years of hands on experience.
• Leading team for technical aspect and resolving any kind of technical blockers
• Able to support tech lead and proactively work on different area work
• Proactively involve in understanding of new module and overall to get a good domain knowledge
• Excellent Analytical and Development Skills
• Experience of using Microsoft VSTS/ADO
• Ability to quickly understand complex technical processes
• Solid architectural awareness and understanding of performance considerations
• Experience of working in React for minimum 2 years.
• Experience of working with distributed teams
• Experience of working with Product Owners within an Agile / Scrum environment and Agile behaviors.
• Experience of Microsoft Azure
• Experience of deployment process and CI Pipeline
• Ability to take the decision in absence of tech lead
• Review the code, approve the PR for check in the code
• Good understanding of Scrum and agile methodology and ways of working.

ParentPay Group brings together eleven brands that drive development in EdTech. As Europe's largest EdTech provider, we help primary and secondary schools streamline their cashless payments, improve their parent engagement, safely manage meals and securely store their data. Fundamentally, we create time for learning.