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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 for a Software Experience Engineer who will be part of our Academic Technology Team. The role supports the software development teams to become more efficient in their processes and practices and deliver higher quality products.
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 crucial to the success of our software development teams and pushing the maturity of software development across the entire organization. There are no limits to the opportunities afforded to learn best practices in this field, work with new and exciting technologies, and collaborate with highly 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?
Working under the supervision of the Head of Software Engineering Practice in the UK, you will undertake a variety of projects designed to improve how we write software, including:
Help build world class CI pipelines, integrating code analysis, testing and code review tools.Develop our deployment pipelines helping us move toward deploying multiple times a day.Help improve out testing capabilities by introducing the ability to run load and performance testing and investigating chaos testing.Helping teams integrate observability tooling into our code across a variety of languages.Automating data collection to help drive informed decision making.What makes you the ideal candidate for this position?
Ideally you would be an experienced software developer who is passionate about and can demonstrate a history of improving how you and your team develop software.
In addition, experience, knowledge or expertise in the following would give you an advantage:
Knowledge of building automated CI/CD pipelinesProficiency in Javascript and a willingness to learn Typescript, Java, Python, SQL or other languagesKnowledge of cloud development on AWS, Azure or Google CloudVarious SQL and NoSQL database technologiesGit