The University of Cambridge’s Information Services is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer. You will join a multidisciplinary development team within a Division of 30 engineers building high-profile bespoke web systems and cloud native services, and modernising existing applications.
Our services are public-facing and support University staff and students (~60,000 people) meaning your work will have a significant impact on the reputation of one of the world’s leading universities. We develop new services using modern web architectural standards with an emphasis on reusability, APIs, test automation, and CI. Services are deployed to cloud infrastructure in Docker containers.
Our technology stack is: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Python, Django, React, Material UI and Typescript. We maintain a DevOps culture and use Scrum for our day to day work. We have also adopted an “open by default” approach to new work and thus you can find much of our work to date in our GitLab. The team also produces a Guidebook that collects team’s practices and useful information at https://guidebook.devops.uis.cam.ac.uk/

IDEALLY YOU WILL HAVE EXPERIENCE IN:

• Designing and solving complex business problems by writing simple, effective code that can be deployed to cloud services.
• Expert coding in Python. Large experience architecting django applications.
• Even better if you have experience with TypeScript and React and/or some fluency in other languages and web frameworks.
• Designing and developing RESTful APIs and consuming these in web applications.
• Writing and collaborating on highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews.
• Writing and applying unit tests.
• Using git as your daily revision control system.
• Collaborating with users and business representatives to gain insight, and to bottom-out detailed requirements.
• Working with containers. Writing good, optimised Dockerfiles.
• Working in a DevOps environment using cloud technologies, CI/CD and configuration management tools.
• Mentoring other developers.

Please refer the Job description for details