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GL Education
Brentford
Founded January 1980
Employees 201 - 500
Ed-Tech
Tech for Good
Who are GL Education
GL Education are a small (ish) business achieving big things. With a total headcount of 220, we have a 40-strong Development team based out of Houghton-le-Spring on the Durham/Sunderland border. At GL Education, we are passionate about the role we play in supporting schools to help all students reach their full potential; we do this by providing assessment solutions that help teachers learn more about their pupils, so they can find the best way to teach them. Our story started in 1980 as a publishing company and since then we have grown both organically and through acquisition. We have adapted to develop on-line assessments and over 50% of our assessments are now completed digitally. Our continued digital revolution is high on the company agenda as we continue our strong-hold as market-leader in the UK and ramp up international growth – at the last count we have delivered over 50 million online tests across the globe. Our mission is to ensure all children have the best possible start by having access to our education tools. That's our purpose, it's why we do what we do and why we're proud to be doing it.
Life at
GL Education
Culture overview
Joining us will give you a real opportunity to make a difference to our organisation and the schools, teachers and pupils that we work with. You will gain experience working with an international, award-winning business and help us in our on-going transformation from publishing company to tech business, GL is modernising the way it works and that starts with being Tech centric. If you want to be part of our continuing success story, we would love to hear from you. Our values – Collaborative, Responsive, Enterprising and Rigorous - reflect who we are, what we do, and what we would like to see more of. We also look for these values in our potential colleagues. In addition to the benefits listed below, we also offer a few extra perks: A salary sacrifice car lease scheme with tax and NI savings on hybrid and electric vehicles. SmartTech is a salary loan/deduction scheme that helps you with the upfront cost of tech and electrical goods. Access to a benefits and discount platform with thousands of discounts at retailers, gyms, leisure attractions and restaurants Holiday purchase plan, if 26 days isn't going to cut it for you! Career progression and development opportunities with individual personal development reviews Eye care vouchers and annual flu vaccinations Weekly fruit platters and regular pizza provision - it's called a balanced diet! Employee Assistance Programme and access to THRIVE, an NHS approved app to help manage your mental health We offer office based, hybrid or fully remote working, tell us what works for you and we'll work with you to achieve it. Having a diverse workforce is important to us and we want our teams to reflect the world in which we live. We do all we can to encourage diversity and diverse thinking in GL. Our Diversity Matters Network - owned and driven by our staff – encourages and promotes honest and open discussion. Staff can share their experiences and discuss what diversity means to them, to inform and open up a discussion with our wider network of team members.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Food
Free Parking
Health Cash Plan
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Season Ticket Loan
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Beer Fridge
Birthday Off
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
Tech at
GL Education
Leadership
Lee-Jon Ball
Interim CTO
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous integration
Feature switching
Infrastructure as code
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Monitoring and logging
Pair programming
Refactoring
Scrum
Unit testing
Company tech stack
csharp
typescript
javascript
dot-net-core
mssql
microsoft-azure
angular
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