Senior Software Engineer (FE Focus)
Cambridge Spark3 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery within the Internal Experience pod, from discovery and problem framing through production, iteration, and outcome measurement.
- Work directly with curriculum, operations, and delivery stakeholders to understand problems and shape requirements.
- Contribute to solution proposals, technical decision records, discovery conversations, and product decisions.
- Use AI tooling for prototyping, agentic coding, and delivery acceleration, while helping the wider team adopt these practices.
- Maintain high engineering standards through test-driven development, disciplined code review, and quality ownership.
- Coach and support less experienced engineers and contribute to the evolution of the pod-based engineering model.
Requirements
- Frontend expertise including UX design and comfort owning the full delivery lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders to shape requirements and contribute to discovery.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, including test-driven development, code review, and a commitment to quality.
- Active experience using AI-assisted development tools for prototyping or agentic coding.
- Strong written communication, including the ability to write proposals, technical decision records, and stakeholder updates.
- Comfort with ambiguity, incomplete information, outcome ownership, and autonomous product engineering.
- Professional experience with React or Vue is a bonus but not essential.
- Backend engineering knowledge and experience in edtech, regulated industries, or other complex domains are desirable but not required.
Benefits
- Home-based UK role with occasional travel to the London office; the work must be performed entirely within the United Kingdom.
- 25 days of holiday plus flexible bank holidays and one birthday day off.
- 4% matched pension contributions and an optional salary sacrifice scheme.
- Health and wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month, private medical insurance, and a cash plan.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, holiday buy-back of up to 10 days per year, and an Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated counsellor.
- One volunteering day, company socials and events, and annual summer and Christmas events.
- CPD allowance with quarterly reflections and ring-fenced development time.
- Opportunity to work on an AI-focused education platform supporting thousands of learners, with time and space to experiment.