Senior Moodle Developer & Technical Product Owner

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!