Senior Moodle Developer & Technical Product Owner
Senior Moodle Developer & Technical Product Owner
Central London (Hybrid – ideally 3 days a week onsite)
Initial 6-Month Contract, Full-Time
Competitive Day Rate
We are supporting a globally recognised education organisation in the search for an exceptional Senior Moodle Developer & Technical Product Owner to help lead the evolution of a large-scale digital learning platform used across an international education network.
This is not a traditional Moodle Developer role.
The successful contractor will combine deep hands-on Moodle and PHP engineering expertise with technical product ownership, platform strategy, and modern engineering capability development. You will play a key role in shaping the future of a globally scaled student-facing platform focused on collaboration, engagement, and personalised learning experiences.
You will work across engineering, product, and stakeholder teams to modernise and scale a complex Moodle-based platform, helping define both the technical roadmap and the engineering maturity required to support future growth.
The role combines:
- Senior hands-on Moodle engineering
- Technical architecture and platform design
- Product ownership and backlog leadership
- Integration and API strategy
- Engineering governance and DevOps maturity
- Senior stakeholder engagement across technology and education teams
Key Responsibilities
- Lead advanced Moodle development across custom plugins, integrations, platform optimisation, and scalable architecture
- Design and implement API-first solutions and integration patterns across multiple systems and services
- Improve engineering standards, development governance, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes
- Act as a technical product owner, translating business and educational objectives into scalable technical solutions
- Help shape future-state platform strategy, engineering capability, and roadmap direction
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across platform modernisation initiatives
- Support performance optimisation, scalability, and platform reliability within complex global environments
- Work closely with senior stakeholders across technology, product, and operational functions
Essential Experience
- Proven experience operating as a senior Moodle/PHP engineering lead within complex digital platform environments
- Deep Moodle development expertise including custom development, integrations, architecture, optimisation, and scalable platform design
- Expert-level PHP engineering capability
- Strong experience designing REST APIs, middleware, and scalable service architectures
- Experience introducing engineering structure, governance, testing frameworks, CI/CD, and DevOps best practice
- Ability to operate as both a hands-on technical lead and technical product owner
- Strong understanding of Moodle internals including database structures, caching, event systems, and performance optimisation
- Experience working within Azure environments and deployment pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership capability
- Experience operating within global or multi-region organisations
Desirable Experience
- Experience within education, EdTech, or learning platform environments
- Experience modernising legacy platforms or scaling digital learning products
- Exposure to globally distributed engineering or product teams
If you're interested in applying, please reach out with a copy of your CV and we can arrange a conversation!