Senior Software Engineer; REQ

Job Overview

At Cambium Assessment, we’re building a next-generation tools that helps educators understand student performance, take timely action, and improve outcomes. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and delivering a modern, scalable platform with a SPA front end framework (VueJS /React

JS), C#-based microservices, and AWS-native infrastructure, integrating with modern data warehouse and analytics platforms.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, UX, and data teams to turn complex reporting needs into intuitive, high-performing features for teachers and school leaders.

• 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, Big Query, 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, Cloud Watch, 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.

• 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 K–12 education
  , edtech, or reporting/analytics systems.
• Experience with:
  • ETL/ELT tools and patterns (e.g., AWS Glue, custom pipelines).
  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Cloud Formation, CDK).
  • Modern data stores (e.g., Postgre
    
    SQL, SQL Server, Dynamo
    
    DB, or other No
    
    SQL).
  • Observability tools (e.g., Cloud Watch, Datadog, New Relic).
  • Authentication and authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Cognito).

• You care about user experience and can translate teacher needs into technical solutions.
• You’re comfortable moving between front end, backend, and data layers, and owning features end‑to‑end
  .
• You enjoy mentoring others
  , improving team practices, and raising the engineering bar.
• You’re pragmatic: you balance ideal architecture with real‑world constraints and timelines.
• You’re excited by the green field development opportunity rather than just maintaining legacy systems.

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

• Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.
• Our…