About the role

Role overview

Join Better Futures Multi-Academy Trust to help shape and scale two live products: ARC (leadership platform) and Swaya (student feedback app). This role is designed for product ownership—building what real users need and improving a solid existing codebase.

Responsibilities

Own and drive development of ARC and Swaya: quality, roadmap, and delivery
Work directly with the founders on product direction
Improve an existing Rails + React codebase
Manage iOS and Android app updates
Solve real UX problems and ship improvements users notice
Think and operate as a product-minded developer (not just tickets)

Requirements

Strong Ruby on Rails experience in production
Solid React frontend skills with genuine UI/UX quality focus
Mobile app experience with iOS and Android (e.g., React Native, Flutter, or native)
Product-thinking mindset (focus on outcomes, not only tasks)
Comfortable with ambiguity; honest about what you don’t know; quick to learn
UK-based with the right to work without sponsorship

Nice to have / context

Experience working closely with founders / early product direction

What you offer / working model

Start at 0.6 FTE, with a clear path to full-time as products grow
Remote-first, with occasional in-person days in the UK Midlands
Public sector pension and holiday entitlement
CPD budget and encouragement to develop skills

Compensation

£25,200–£30,000 for the role (pro-rata, based on £42,000–£50,000 FTE)

About Better Futures Multi Academy Trust

Better Futures Multi-Academy Trust is a UK Midlands organisation that operates group of sixth form colleges. Within the Trust, it builds and runs two education-focused software products: ARC (a leadership platform that turns feedback into behavioral change) and Swaya (a student feedback app for iOS and Android) with paying clients.

Full Stack Developer first UK

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