Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Cambium Assessment

At Cambium Assessment, we’re building next‑generation tools that help educators understand student performance, take timely action, and improve outcomes. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design and deliver 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 /React
    
    JS.
  • 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 or 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…