Remote Ada CS Engineer

Job Title: Ada CS Engineer

Location: Remote, UK, with regular travel to Cambridge

Salary: £39,000 to £45,000 p.a. Full-time equivalent, dependent on experience

Basis: Permanent, Full-time, part-time or flexible

Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

The role

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is working in collaboration with the University of Cambridge to deliver (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). a free and accessible learning platform for computing teachers and students in the UK.

We are looking for a motivated and proactive software engineer to join the Ada Computer Science development team and work on the development and maintenance of a key component of the UK’s computer science curriculum delivery.

You will be working within a University of Cambridge development team and will represent the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s interest. You will be a key person in creating a shared understanding between the two organisations. This role is a chance for significantly more independence and autonomy than typical for this level of experience.

The work you will do is open source and can be found on Github at  You will be working to improve and develop resources and experiences for teachers and students and will have a unique chance to impact computer science education throughout the UK for both young people and educators.

You will develop software in Java and React to enable learning experiences, as well as managing the software delivery and infrastructure that runs Ada Computer Science.

You will be working with a supportive, collaborative, and agile team of software engineers from the University of Cambridge, product designers and managers from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and expert computer science educators.

We work hard to make sure that the Foundation is a place where everyone is supported to do the best work of their careers. We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work. If you're the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be joining an exceptional team of people who care about our mission and each other.

Responsibilities

This role has the following responsibilities.

• Design and implement Ada CS site features in collaboration with product teams and designers from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge.
• Organise release testing and perform deployments
• Respond to support tickets
• Support product teams with requests for data and insights
• Manage on-premises servers maintained by the University of Cambridge
• Participate in our on-call rotation within business hours

There are also opportunities to lead in specific domains, such as:

• Testing strategy and approach, including Visual Regression Testing.
• Building and deployment, managing the CI/CD pipeline and approach
• Developing analytics for key stakeholders, including managing the analytics infrastructure

Experience and personal attributes

We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth. We welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not necessarily all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here.

• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Proactivity and strong self-management skills
• Professional development experience in React, Java and Python
• Experience with Docker, Docker compose and containerisation
• Experience with a relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB)
• Experience with software delivery and CI/CD
• Experience with software service metrics and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Plausible and Apache Superset.
• Familiarity with Linux server administration and networking
• Experience directly interacting with end users, replying professionally to queries and questions
• Enthusiasm for growing the next generation of Computer Scientists and for educational outcomes in Computer Science

About us

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is an independent charity with a global mission to enable all young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

We empower schools to teach computer science and AI literacy through free curricula, classroom resources, purpose built software tools,…