As CTO of Earwig Academic Reporting Limited, you will lead the technical evolution of a platform used by thousands of teachers. You’ll define the AI strategy, transition existing features into intelligent agents, and scale the engineering team. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll balance hands-on Python/AWS development with high-level strategic business leadership.
Chief Technical Officer at Earwig Academic Reporting Limited
Earwig Academic Reporting Limited is a profitable UK EdTech leader transforming special education through its flagship assessment platform used by over 300 schools. As CTO, you will lead their most ambitious technical leap yet: evolving the software into a suite of 14 AI-powered agents. This is a rare opportunity for a hands-on Python and AWS expert to join a mission-driven management team, own the technical roadmap, and directly impact the lives of thousands of vulnerable pupils. If you have experience shipping production-grade AI features and want to scale an engineering function with early equity potential, this is your chance to define the future of SEND teaching technology.
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Location
Remote (United Kingdom)
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Earwig Academic Reporting Limited
Role overview
Education
Earwig Academic Reporting Limited provides a comprehensive software solution for special schools and SENCOs, offering tools for teaching evidence, pupil assessment, tracking progress, reporting, and sharing children’s progress with parents. It operates in the educational support services sector, with products designed to make teachers’ working lives easier and more effective. It is the leading software package in the UK for special schools, alternative provisions in mainstream schools and school groups and trusts which run SEND educational settings of every type.
What you will do
- Set and implement the architecture and strategy for transforming current features into AI agents using Python, Django, and AWS services.
- Manage and scale the engineering function, overseeing both the internal growth of the team and relationships with external AWS-certified development partners.
- Work directly with the CEO and school leaders to translate pedagogical needs into robust, production-ready AI/ML features that drive pupil progress.
Who this is a fit for
- Senior technical leader with extensive Python and AWS experience, comfortable moving between high-level architectural decisions and hands-on production coding.
- Proven track record of shipping AI/ML features within a live product environment, specifically moving beyond prototypes to scalable product integrations.
- Strong communicator capable of managing external technical partners while building a high-performance in-house engineering culture within an established small business.
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead a massive technology leap by evolving a proven assessment platform into a suite of 14 mission-critical AI-powered agents for special education.
- Join a profitable, mission-driven company with a decade of traction and an established user base of over 300 schools across the UK.
- Gain high-level influence as part of the top management team with early equity potential in a company improving outcomes for vulnerable pupils.
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