Staff Engineer (Core Product)

Location: Remote

About the role

Arbor has a large product suite serving thousands of schools, built up over a decade, with 15+ core product teams shipping every day. We have lofty commercial targets that require us to quickly evolve our systems and application architecture. We need a Staff Engineer to lead and drive this shift.

You'll own architecture and technical strategy across our core products. You'll set direction for teams you don't manage whilst supporting R&D’s rapid evolution to AI-native. Expect to spend as much time getting Leads and Product Directors bought into an approach as you spend designing it.

You're the right fit if you:

• Own and deliver clear target architectures, strategies and roadmaps to support our product suite and strategic direction.
• Have set architectural direction across 3 or more teams, not one or two
• Can demonstrate excellent commercial and customer understanding alongside strong technical foundations
• Have taken a large systems or products through major architectural shifts, and are honest about what went wrong
• Have worked in product-led scale ups or been through major transformations, where success takes tenacity and high energy

This isn't for you if you:

• Want a role shipping code. The job is technical strategic direction and coaching 
• Want to stick to one domain and go deep. This role goes where the va