About Us

At Imagine Learning UK, our mission is to inspire aha! moments in students around the world, giving them the skills and knowledge they need to understand how their world works.

Previously known as Twig Education, our 2021 acquisition by Imagine Learning, the largest US digital curriculum provider, allows us to invest more in our products and support educators in transforming the learning experience for young people with our innovative digital resources.

In our new chapter, we continue to provide comprehensive and engaging multimedia learning experiences for students across a range of disciplines, including science, mathematics, English language, arts… and more! While our products have reached far and wide, we haven’t stopped growing – and we can’t wait to welcome more talented and passionate people into our team.

Our office is in the heart of Glasgow’s bustling West End located near parks, cafes and restaurants. Become part of a team where your contributions are valued, and where you can cuddle our friendly office dogs (you can meet them here!).

Sounds good, right? Take a sneak peek at just some of the work we do by watching this video.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on one of our Ruby on Rails teams, you solve real problems and ship features that are secure, well tested, and built to last. You’ll be fluent in Rails conventions and comfortable taking ownership of part of the system end to end, from data model through to deployment.

AI-assisted development is a natural part of how we build software here, and you’ll use agentic coding tools as part of your workflow, applying your judgement on when they can help and when a more considered approach is needed. You’ll also be comfortable using logs and metrics to understand and troubleshoot issues and deploying independently through our CI/CD pipeline.

You’ll be curious and keen to keep learning, sharing new ideas and insights with the wider team along the way.

Essential Job Functions

• Analyse requirements with Product Owners and translate them into practical solution designs, including realistic timelines and delivery expectations.
• Write Ruby on Rails code that follows established team conventions, with a focus on clarity, maintainability, and long-term quality.
• Use AI coding assistants (such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot) as a normal part of daily development, and review and validate generated code with the same rigour applied to hand-written code.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of the team’s AI tools, helping ensure coding agents produce output that aligns with team standards and practices.
• Write RSpec tests that provide confidence in application behaviours and help identify unintended impacts of changes before they reach production.
• Use metrics and observability data to identify opportunities for improvement and help strengthen logging and metrics where needed.
• Work confidently with data and databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar technologies, covering areas such as schema design, migrations and query performance.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, responding to customer-impacting issues and working to resolve them in a way that maintains a positive customer experience.
• Take ownership of packaging and releasing your work through the CI/CD pipelines, helping to identify and resolve issues that may prevent a successful deploy.
• Contribute to pull request reviews, helping maintain and improve code quality in line with the team’s risk-based review approach.
• Create clear documentation that captures the thinking and reasoning behind technical decisions, helping current and future team members understand the context behind the work.
• Support and mentor other engineers, sharing knowledge across Ruby and Rails, and the effective and responsible use of AI development tools.
• Proactively identify areas of the application that could benefit from attention or improvement, and work with the Product Owner to help prioritise work.