Cloud-based MIS and school management software for UK schools and trusts
Arbor Education builds management information system software for schools and multi-academy trusts, running a PHP stack (Zend, Symfony, Twig) on AWS Aurora and MySQL alongside a separate C#/ASP.NET and Azure DevOps footprint. Hiring is accelerating and engineering-heavy, centered on SRE work: SLOs, incident response and observability on Datadog and Prometheus. RAG adoption and an AI-first shift point to AI features layered onto school data.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Policy & Insights
Arbor Education is a London-based, privately held company that provides MIS and school management software to schools and trusts across the UK, with a customer base in the thousands of institutions. The platform helps school staff manage operational data, reporting and day-to-day administration, with web and mobile access. The company employs 201–500 people and hires in the United Kingdom and India. Customer-facing operations run on Salesforce, HubSpot, Gainsight and Zendesk, supporting sales, marketing and customer success.
Arbor runs PHP with Zend Framework and Symfony on AWS (Aurora, MySQL), Terraform and Docker, plus Angular, Vue, React Native, C#/ASP.NET, Snowflake, Datadog and Prometheus.
Yes. Engineering dominates Arbor's accelerating hiring, mostly senior and lead roles in the UK and India, with focus on reliability, observability and automation.
Current initiatives include implementing SLOs, improving incident response and observability dashboards, automating operational toil, an AI-first shift with RAG, and shift-left security.
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