Research Development Software Engineer, Cambridge

Title: Research Development Software Engineer

End date: 30th June 26 (12 months intent)

Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future.

• Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code review, and documentation.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment of Azure-hosted or similar cloud services.
• Experience designing and building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at reasonable scale.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with evolving requirements, translate research goals into practical technical solutions, and debug complex systems.
• Experience with frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript.
• Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience.