About Brickfield Education Labs

Brickfield Education Labs is an Irish education-technology company on a mission to make digital learning accessible to everyone. We build accessibility products for Moodle, the world’s most widely used learning platform. Our work includes the Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit, our live-captioning tools, our guides, and a growing suite of plugins for the Moodle Plugin Marketplace. We also do some work on systems other than Moodle.

Our products are used by education providers and organisations around the world. They help make teaching and learning more inclusive, more equal and more private.

We are a small, focused and friendly team of specialists. In a team this size, your work is visible and your decisions matter, and you will have real influence over what we build and how we build it.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a senior, hands-on Moodle developer to take charge of our day-to-day technical delivery and to lead the development of our products. You will report to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and our Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Our CTO sets the technical direction and architecture. Your focus is delivery: turning that direction into well-built, well-tested, production-ready Moodle code, and leading individual projects through to release. You will be the senior developer the team relies on day to day to get the work done well.

This is a senior, practical development role. It is not a Moodle administration role, and it is not a junior plugin developer role. We want someone who is excellent at building Moodle software, interface and backend,  and at carrying projects over the line, working within a clear technical direction rather than setting it.

What You Will Do

• Deliver high-quality, well-tested Moodle plugins, web services and integrations, from design through to release.
• Lead the delivery of individual projects, including version upgrades, refactoring of legacy code, performance tuning and security work.
• Work to the technical direction and architecture set by our CTO, and translate it into practical, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Support and mentor colleagues, and share your Moodle knowledge across the team.
• Support our production systems and help our global client base get the best from our products.
• Work closely with product, support and customers, from first concept through to release.
• Build accessible software that meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

What You Will Bring

These are the core requirements for the role.

• 8+ years of senior Moodle development experience, with deep knowledge of Moodle internals, the plugin architecture and Moodle web services.
• Strong, modern PHP and sound object-oriented design.
• Solid JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Mustache templating.
• Strong database and Structured Query Language (SQL) skills, with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Confidence with Git, RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and integration work such as Single Sign-On (SSO).
• A track record in web application security, performance and scalability
• The drive and reliability to lead project delivery to a high standard, and to work well in a small team.

Nice To Have

These are welcome but not essential. Tell us about any that apply to you.

• Experience maintaining published Moodle plugins.
• Experience developing LTI Tools.
• A working understanding of accessible development and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
• Totara,OpenLMS or Workplace experience.
• Laravel and other frameworks.
• Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Test-driven development, PHPUnit and continuous integration.

Why Brickfield

• A senior, hands-on role with real influence in a focused, friendly team.
• Work that makes a real difference to digital equality, inclusion and privacy.
• Flexible, remote-friendly working within Ireland or Europe and the UK.
• Mentoring, career development, and dedicated company time and funding for learning and innovation.
• A global client base across 14 countries, and a clear product vision.

Salary And Details

• Salary: €70,000–€95,000 per year, depending on experience
• Contract: Permanent, full-time – although contracting may be considered.
• Reports to: our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
• Location: Hybrid from our Waterford office, or fully remote within Ireland, the UK or Europe.
• You must have the right to work in the UK or Europe.

How To Apply

Send your curriculum vitae (CV) and a short note about your Moodle work to [careers@brickfield.ie]. Links to published plugins, github, or to code you are proud of, are very welcome.

The closing date is 14th July although we may close. earlier. depending on applications.

We are an equal-opportunities employer, and we care deeply about accessibility and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and we are happy to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the hiring process. Just let us know what you need.

Please note: we do not work with recruitment agencies.