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.
Responsibilities:
1. Learn new skills independently and proactively and are constantly striving to raise technical excellence.
2. Understand system and software specifications and choose appropriate designs to meet requirements.
3. Produce simple architectures from complex problems.
4. Debug complex problems effectively, including in new unexplored applications.
5. Drive and commitment to see activities through to completion meeting deadlines matching pace to the urgency of the situation.
6. Acquire understanding of all services' architecture, thinking through potential design impacts on other teams and the organisation.
7. Convince, provide work direction, and leadership to colleagues.
8. Have an excellent understanding of agile practices.
9. Design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code that can be deployed to cloud services.
10. Expert coding in Python with large experience architecting Django applications.
11. Even better if you have experience with TypeScript and React and/or some fluency in other languages and web frameworks.
12. Design and develop RESTful APIs and consume these in web applications.
13. Write and collaborate on highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews.
14. Write and apply unit tests.
15. Use git as your daily revision control system.
16. Collaborate with users and business representatives to gain insight and to bottom-out detailed requirements.
17. Work with containers and write good, optimised Dockerfiles.
18. Work in a DevOps environment using cloud technologies, CI/CD and configuration management tools.
19. Mentor other developers.
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