DevPulse

We are building a digital operations platform for on Microsoft 365. The platform brings together knowledge management, AI assistants, financial control, quality assurance and compliance in one place. You will help shape it from the start.

The scope includes:

• SharePoint knowledge hub with an AI agent built in Copilot Studio. Staff can ask it about policies, HR procedures and courses. It logs every question and flags the ones it couldn’t answer, so the content team can fill the gaps.
• Budget dashboard in Power BI, built from Excel budget packs and later moved to live data. It drills down from the whole business to business units, departments and courses, and covers cash flow and quarterly reconciliation.
• Quality dashboard aligned with the Ofsted framework. Data comes in through Microsoft Forms (teaching observations, learning walks, student reviews). It includes a staff × criteria heatmap to spot training needs and an AI assistant over the data. Users can generate a draft Self-Assessment Report (SAR) and Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) with one click.
• Purchase ordering app with multi-level approval by budget holders, linked to spend against budgets.
• Compliance dashboard fed by audit forms for apprenticeships, study programmes and skills bootcamps, so the college stays audit-ready at all times.

• LMS → Power BI integration for a CEO dashboard showing enrolments vs plan, attendance and achievement rates, plus integrations between other systems.

   

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Strong practical experience with Power Automate, Power Apps and Dataverse.
• Solid Power BI skills: data modelling, DAX, Power Query, RLS, workspace management.
• Good knowledge of SharePoint Online: site architecture, permissions, libraries and metadata.
• Understanding of Microsoft 365 security and Entra ID.

THE ROLE:

• Design, develop, and maintain the product’s control plane in Python, and the data plane in both Python and Rust.
• Refactor, optimize, and modernize existing codebases.
• Research and integrate new technologies to enhance product capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement robust solutions.

YOU:

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Solid Python skills and experience — standard library, data structures, best practices.
• Experienced in development of distributed applications.
• Solid understanding of network protocols and network programming.
• Experience using and managing containerization platforms (Docker or Kubernetes).
• Experience with OOP, TDD and DDD design patterns.
• Experienced in building and running automated tests.
• Experienced in CI/CD workflows using Git-based repositories and automation tools.
• Experienced in SQL and relational databases.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with C, C++ or Rust.
• Familiar with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, pytest.
• Utilized Tokio and Axum to architect asynchronous systems in Rust.
• Integrated C++ codebases using autocxx and cxx.
• Worked with Skia and Chromium to develop graphical interfaces and browser components.
• Experienced in cloud and virtualization technologies, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi.