£74,000 - £80,000 GBP
Cambridge, UK
Technology Business Unit
Permanent position, full-time 35 hours per week
Meet the recruiter: Stephanie Whitaker, hr@unitedstatesdigital.space
Join our team at Cambridge University Press & Assessment and utilise your skills to make a real difference! As a full‑stack web developer, you will develop cutting‑edge eLearning solutions with Typescript and ReactJS, collaborating with a talented team to deliver software that meets unique business demands.
About the role
- Proactively lead solutions and contribute to architectural principles, best practices, and guidance within the English Engineering team.
- Actively develop and maintain complex, feature‑rich web services and applications, primarily using Typescript.
- Design and develop solutions that maximise the use of our Amazon AWS partner agreement.
- Participate and lead paired programming activities.
- Engage, participate and lead in the code review process to ensure the highest quality of code.
- Demonstrate agile development practices.
- Work closely within a cross‑functional team including design, UX, Architects, Developers, QA, Product owners and Business stakeholders.
- Ensure all software produced is robust by contributing to a testing strategy.
- Participate as a lead member in the requirements gathering process focusing on technical requirements and generating requirements from a product vision.
- Advise and collaborate with other Lead Software Engineers and Engineering management to develop and maintain our data products.
About you
- 7+ years of experience in full‑stack development; JavaScript/Typescript preferred but Python and Java also desirable.
- Strong understanding of coding best practices, frameworks, code architecture, object orientation and emerging technologies.
- Experience in agile development teams (Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban or scaled agile frameworks).
- Proactive and able to think flexibly and quickly.
- Ability to research and learn new technologies and understand technical specifications.
- Natural problem solver.
- Good team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to stay open‑minded, listen and learn from feedback across the business to enable continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Rewards and benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4× annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer committed to equality and inclusion. The DC scheme’s Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt‑in, disclose a disability or a long‑term health condition, and meet the minimum criteria for the role. When interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants without a disability or long‑term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance on eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Contact Details:
United States Digital Space LLC Recruitment Team
