Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Salary: £51,400- £68,800 Location: Cambridge/ Hybrid (40-60% office-based) Contract: Permanent Hours: 35 hours per week Are you a hands-on senior engineer who enjoys building reliable, impactful services - and helping others grow along the way? We are Cambridge University Press and Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We''re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Assessment APIs team. You''ll play a key role in designing, building, and improving APIs that underpin assessment services used across our organisation, including services that integrate machine learning models. About the role As a Senior Software Engineer in the Assessment APIs team, you''ll take a hands-on role across the full software development lifecycle for a critical internal platform. Working closely with the Team Lead and the Applied AI team, you''ll help shape the technical direction of the service, translate business needs into robust technical solutions, and ensure our APIs remain secure, scalable and highly reliable in production. You''ll also provide technical leadership within the team, mentoring engineers and line managing 1-2 direct reports, acting as deputy for the Team Lead when needed. Key responsibilities include: Owning the end-to-end design, development, testing and maintenance of API services. Contributing to the ongoing improvement and evolution of a live, ..... full job details .....