Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cambium Assessment is building next-generation tools that help educators understand student performance and improve outcomes. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and deliver a scalable platform while collaborating with product, UX, and data teams to create intuitive features for teachers and school leaders.
Responsibilities
- Design & build front end experiences
- Develop rich, responsive applications and dashboards and reporting workflows using VueJS /ReactJS
- Implement reusable components, state management, and front-end architecture that scales
- Own backend microservices & data flows
- Design and implement microservices (primarily in C#/.NET) that power reporting, data access, and business logic
- Build and consume APIs and data services that integrate with modern data warehouses (e.g., Clickhouse, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks)
- Work with data engineers to ensure reporting services are optimized for query performance and scalability
- Leverage AWS at scale
- Design and implement services using AWS (e.g., ECS/Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Redshift, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Advocate for and implement best practices around scalability, resilience, security, and cost optimization
- Drive quality and reliability
- Champion automated testing, code reviews, and observability (logging, metrics, alerting)
- Help evolve our CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
- Collaborate & mentor
- Work closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to refine requirements and deliver user-centric solutions
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; set engineering standards and practices for the team
- Participate in technical design discussions and architecture reviews
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Exceptional experience building single-page applications with React/VueJS (hooks, component patterns, state management, performance optimization)
- Hands-on experience designing and building microservices (preferably with C#/.NET in production)
- AWS experience is required, including designing, deploying, and operating services using core AWS offerings
- Experience working with or integrating against at least one modern data warehouse such as: Clickhouse, Amazon Redshift
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
- Strong grounding in software engineering best practices: code reviews, testing (unit/integration), version control, CI/CD
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, agile team
- Experience with Python for services, data processing, or automation
- Background in Kâ12 education, edtech, or reporting/analytics systems
- Experience with: ETL/ELT tools and patterns (e.g., AWS Glue, custom pipelines)
- Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, CDK)
- Modern data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, or other NoSQL)
- Observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic)
- Authentication and authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Cognito)
Benefits
- Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life.
- It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results.
- It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.
- As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.
- We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.
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