Staff Software Engineer
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The Raspberry Pi FoundationEducational Charity
Cambridge or remote (UK only)Full-TimeStaff
Salary66,000 - 74,000 GBP per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLAgileRuby on RailsReactTerraformDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience developing engineering talent through mentoring and coaching
- Led complex technical delivery projects in an Agile environment
- In-depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Node.js/Express, or frontend web frameworks like React
- Significant experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL
- Deep technical expertise in troubleshooting and debugging opaque distributed system issues
- Experience optimizing distributed systems, including instrumentation, monitoring, and performant design
- Track record of implementing proactive security tooling and measures
- Experience architecting and managing infrastructure on AWS, Heroku, or Cloudflare
- Proficiency with Terraform and CircleCI
- Experience gathering requirements and collaborating with non-technical stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of engineering patterns and standards
- Experience writing documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience disseminating Agile best practices across organisations
Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead on the foundation’s various projects and services
- Write code that serves as an example of best practice in security, accessibility, performance and robustness
- Propose and implement architectural solutions for highly scalable web applications and systems
- Lead by example through code reviews, test-driven development, and technical decision-making
- Mentor and coach senior engineers to proactively share knowledge
- Accelerate delivery teams by resolving technical blockers and defining development processes
- Own the technical quality, architecture, and operations of team products
- Articulate technical decisions to diverse stakeholders based on user needs and business value
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