Software Engineer - 1-2+ yrs of JavaScript experience is an edge!

Industry Category	Computer / Information Technology	Position	IT-Software
Recruitment Department		Number Of Recruits	several
Work Location	Metro Manila (NCR) Makati	Nature Of Work	Full Time
Gender Requirements	Male	Marriage Requirement	No marital status restrictions
Education Level	College Diploma	Work Experience	No work experience restrictions
Age Requirement	Above 18 years old	Salary Package	Negotiable
Updated Date	2022-09-27	Valid Until	Valid for a long time

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are recruiting a passionate Software Engineer who will be part of our Academic Technology Team in Manila. The role will play an essential part in the support and development of Cambridge Core and its key content and platform applications. The Manila hub is in Makati City, operating to support the university's global operations. 

Why should you join Cambridge?

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

When you join Cambridge, you get the best possible combination of a supportive, caring environment, balanced with work that brings out the best in you. You will have access to learning and development opportunities, and business tools essential for your role so that you can perform at your peak.

What can we offer you?

In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the business and branches. It is an opportunity that will enable you to widen your horizon by learning from other cultures.

The role is to support and to develop features for our academic platform, Cambridge Core, and help students and academics find articles that are relevant for their research. There are no limits to the opportunities afforded to learn the best practices in this field, work with new and exciting technologies, and collaborate with incredibly talented people.

On top of these, working with Cambridge will also give you stability. We show our care for our people by allowing them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leaves. In addition, you will be entitled to our health care benefits with coverage for dependents, group life insurance, and robust wellbeing programs right on the first day of joining us.

What will you do in this role?

Key responsibilities and skills:

Has a working knowledge of the required development tools and technology.Learn about new programming languages and framework specificationsAbility to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Innovative and ability to learn and support new systems and applications.Test applications for quality assurance purposesUse approved software tools and follow scrum software development processes procedure in placed.Prepare ticket releases for projects that require such documents.Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house or external training, reading manuals and reviewing new applications.Responsible for the Unit Testing of the modules assigned.

What makes you the ideal candidate for this position?

The ideal candidate should have solid software development experience with an aptitude for testing, leadership skills, and community building by participating in COPs/guilds and external software test/developer communities.

In addition, experience, knowledge or expertise in the following are an advantage:

1-2 Years + Javascript in a full stack environment. Node.JS, Express.JS and Handlebars.JS, Vue.js, Nuxt JS2 Years + Frontend web development with HTML/CSS/JS (including Foundation5 is a plus)

We help millions of people worldwide to open opportunities and unlock their potential.We are a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We’re driven by a simple mission – to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. And that’s why every year we give millions of people the support they need to unlock their potential.From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence and enable success in more than 170 countries around the world. We give people the opportunity to show what they’ve learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.We can achieve this because we are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of empowered people. A community that embraces change, and continuously focuses on meeting our customers’ needs. One that is flexible, by default. One that gives everyone the support they need to be bold and take ownership. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we’ll keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding better ways of doing things.#WeAreCambridge #PursuingPotentialOfficial Company Websitehttps://www.cambridge.org/Facebook Accounts• Global - https://www.facebook.com/CambPressAssess• Manila - https://www.facebook.com/Cambridge.Manila.PHInstagram Accounts• Global - https://www.instagram.com/CambPressAssess• Manila - https://www.instagram.com/cambridge.manila/