Department: Product and Technology
Location: Home based, UK
Reports to: Technology Team Lead
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: (Depending on experience)
Role Overview
We are currently undergoing rapid growth and are therefore looking for a talented engineer to join our team. This is an exciting role as we are a small, fast-paced team working on an interesting product! Our system is made of multiple APIs and data pipelines processing data extracted from code written by students and their learning journey going through videos, coding projects and quizzes as well as interacting with tutors and their peers. Technology-wise we use Python, Postgres, Redis, Vue.js, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP products a lot.
Our engineering team is developing EDUKATE.AI, the learning platform used by learners across all organisations and universities we work with. The platform is key to our success and can be seen as an ecosystem with three components:
1. A hosted development environment allowing subject matter experts from the industry and academia to develop interactive content on cutting-edge technologies.
2. The learning platform itself, hosting our structured programmes and optimised for our learners to pick up new skills quickly by solving problems in a simulated professional environment and receiving instant personalised feedback.
3. A delivery dashboard for our team of tutors, coaches and admins to support large cohorts of students.
We always seek to improve all three aspects of our system - making it easier for experts to build advanced educational content and deliver the best learner experience with automated feedback on code, recommended readings, cloud-based development environment and peer-learning features. To do so our platform brings together research in software engineering, source code analysis, education pedagogy and AI.
Key responsibilities:
* Collaborate with a small, fast-paced team to develop an innovative Data & AI education platform.
* Design, build, and maintain multiple APIs and data pipelines.
* Work on backend systems that handle data from the learner’s journey through the content.
* Develop front-end features and user interfaces using Vue.js for a seamless user experience.
* Write efficient SQL queries to create, read, update, and delete data in PostgreSQL, ensuring data accuracy and optimised performance.
* Leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services to support scalable and reliable infrastructure.
* Diagnose and resolve bugs, responding to support tickets promptly to maintain platform reliability and customer satisfaction.
* Project work, gathering requirements and scoping to support other functions within the business.
Candidate Specification:
Essential
* Experience with a Python web framework (Flask, Django, etc.).
* Experience using various products from a cloud provider (GCP or equivalent).
* Experience with software development tools and processes (version control, CI/CD, DevOps, etc.).
* Experience with HTML, CSS and a Javascript framework (Vue.js, React, or equivalent).
Desirable
Frontend and UX/UI:
* Experience with Frontend testing frameworks.
* Experience with Cypress integration test framework.
* Experience in UX/UI, responsive and accessible UIs.
Backend and Infrastructure:
* Experience with Kubernetes.
* Experience with Docker.
* Experience building applications at scale: infrastructure, profiling, monitoring, performance, database indexing.
Miscellaneous:
* Familiarity with the Python Data Science stack (Pandas, Sklearn, Numpy, etc.).
* Experience working with Learning Management Systems (LMS).
* Interest in education / EdTech.
Company Benefits:
* Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home.
* Pension with up to 5% matched contributions.
* 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday.
* A day for volunteering.
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave.
* Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month.
* Annual Summer and Xmas events.
* Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events.
* CPD Allowance.
* Private medical insurance and cash plan.
* Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a).
* EAP with 24 hour confidential support line.
Background to our Organisation
We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.
We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience.
Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis.
Values
At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:
Entrepreneurial: We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark.
Team Spirit: Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture.
Customer-focused: Our customers are at the centre of everything we do.
Gold Standard: We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering.
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