Software Engineering jobs in Cambridge

What you would do

• Lead the technical design and implementation of secure, resilient cloud platform capabilities for AVEVA CONNECT Core Services.
• Guide architecture and engineering decisions across microservices, REST APIs, data design, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, supporting complex problem-solving, design reviews, and delivery quality.
• Promote cloud technologies, modern engineering practices, and AI-assisted development tools across AVEVA.
• Collaborate with Directors, architects, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to align technical direction with platform and business priorities.

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What you would do

• Define the software strategy and technical vision for headphone products, covering embedded firmware and interfaces for mobile applications and cloud services.
• Translate product ambitions into practical software deliverables.
• Participate in product and technology development.
• Contribute to cross-functional project teams moving products through development and approval.
• Manage external engineering resources, workloads, and delivery against agreed plans.
• Champion software quality and engineering best practices including maintainability, reuse, automated verification, and long-term product support.

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What you would do

• Build and maintain production-quality software using Python and TypeScript.
• Develop applications with Vue 3/Nuxt and asynchronous Python services (FastAPI).
• Work with PostgreSQL and SQL.
• Diagnose and resolve bugs.
• Own multi-stage asynchronous data processing pipelines.
• Integrate LLM/ML APIs into production features with prompt safeguards.

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What you would do

• Design, develop and improve software or hardware tools used in quantum computing and QEC.
• Contribute to engineering projects from initial design through implementation, testing and improvement.
• Build and test complex products at the cutting edge of technology.
• Work with engineers and scientists from different disciplines to solve technical problems.
• Rotate through Engineering teams over 12 months, gaining hands-on experience of different technical challenges and approaches to developing QEC technology.

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• Build scalable UI features optimized for millions of users.
• Contribute to technical investigations and solutions for middleware and UI challenges.
• Explore integrating AI/ML capabilities and leverage generative AI tools to accelerate development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on global platform features.
• Develop engineering tools and learn from experienced developers.
• Stay current with AI trends and emerging technologies.

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What you would do

• Partnering with Technology and Product leadership teams to shape and deliver people strategy aligned to business goals.
• Owning headcount planning, org design, succession, and retention for the function.
• Sitting within leadership team rhythms to anticipate and shape people implications of roadmaps.
• Coaching and challenging senior leaders, including pushing back on VPs and execs when warranted.
• Identifying cross-functional patterns (promotion criteria, senior hire onboarding gaps) and bringing them to the wider People Partner team.
• Applying people metrics (attrition, engagement, hiring velocity, time to fill) to diagnose organisational issues.

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What you would do

• Plans and manages application development and client delivery for a portfolio of payment gateway applications.
• Leads teams designing, developing, testing, implementing and supporting software products and internal technology services.
• Manages the full software development lifecycle from planning through production support and audit obligations.
• Oversees product design, technical analysis, bug verification, beta support and continuous improvement.
• Resolves critical delivery, quality and operational issues as an escalation point.
• Manages managers, supervisors, engineers and analysts including hiring, performance management and coaching.

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What you would do

• Own product features end-to-end from ideation through delivery, contributing to UX thinking, frontend execution, and post-launch iteration.
• Build polished, accessible user interfaces using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Make UX and UI decisions independently, collaborating with designers and PMs.
• Design and run A/B tests to validate product decisions.
• Use analytics tooling such as Mixpanel to understand user interaction and inform product decisions.
• Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to ship features.

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• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Account Managers across multiple regions or verticals.
• Own team performance and pipeline health to ensure achievement of quarterly and annual revenue targets.
• Partner with Sales coaches to support onboarding, ongoing training, and adoption of best practices.
• Drive forecast accuracy, deal reviews, and proactive pipeline management using Salesforce or similar tools.
• Collaborate with Marketing and SDR/Inside Sales teams to define and execute account-based strategies for new logo acquisition and expansion.
• Identify process improvements and ensure consistent, scalable sales methodologies across the team.

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What you would do

• Develop RISC-V firmware and drivers.
• Build software hardening and security tools.
• Develop embedded operating systems in Rust and C.
• Build compilers, code generators, and linters.
• Develop simulators and emulators (e.g.
• QEMU).

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What you would do

• Design and develop Java, SQL, and PL/SQL solutions for an ecommerce payments gateway.
• Build secure, clean, testable Java-based distributed applications in a Linux environment.
• Collaborate with software and QA engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.
• Contribute to retrospectives, technical debt resolution, and improvements to team working practices.
• Participate in release support and deployment outside normal office hours.
• Work collaboratively across the whole SDLC with solution designers, release team, support, and business stakeholders.

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What you would do

• Build and scale automation capabilities as part of a centralised Delivery Engineering team.
• Deliver automated development and test harnesses across the software development lifecycle.
• Embed with engineering teams to build white and black box automated testing frameworks across functional and non-functional areas.
• Improve and upgrade automation execution frameworks and introduce modern tooling.
• Champion modern automation practices and toolsets within engineering teams.
• Understand the codebases, flows and services of supported teams to build fitting automation.

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• Own full 360 recruitment strategies across UK and US markets for technical and commercial roles.
• Partner with hiring managers as a trusted advisor to understand talent needs and solve hiring challenges.
• Source, headhunt, and build talent pools for hard-to-fill roles internationally.
• Manage the candidate journey end-to-end, acting as a brand ambassador.
• Analyse recruitment metrics and candidate feedback to improve processes and pipeline efficiency.
• Coach hiring managers on interviewing techniques and candidate assessment.

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What you would do

• Develop and maintain core features of secure browsing products.
• Design, code, debug, test and optimize software using modern C++.
• Develop secure browser capabilities on Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge).
• Develop Firefox-based secure browser functionality using JavaScript, TypeScript and Gecko.
• Build and maintain browser extensions and web-based functionality.
• Develop automation, testing and validation frameworks using Python.

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What you would do

• Lead complex features from initial analysis and technical design through breakdown, estimation, implementation, validation, and release.
• Translate high-level or evolving requirements into a clear technical approach for the team and set task priorities.
• Design, develop, test, review, and maintain high-quality software across embedded software, platform components, client-side tools, and APIs.
• Coach and mentor engineers, including supporting Senior Software Developers in developing their technical leadership and feature ownership.
• Support the architecture team in designing system-level architecture covering availability, latency, cost, and data models.
• Use cross-domain knowledge to anticipate scale and evolution over time.

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• Prototype and develop new ideas to improve Darktrace's services and offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, project coordinators and technical strategists.
• Contribute to rapid prototyping of new ideas and structured development of existing platforms.
• Advance methodology for defending against unknown cyber-attacks.
• Develop core competencies in various programming languages with opportunities to specialize in specific technology areas.

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What you would do

• Develop changes in Java, SQL, and PL/SQL for the ecommerce payments gateway.
• Review payment processing business processes, analyze production data, and interpret payments-industry spec documents to scope and specify work.
• Act as an authorized code reviewer and pair with engineers to ensure quality code delivery.
• Collaborate with test engineers to scope test coverage and contribute to automated integration and system tests.
• Design rollout and monitoring strategies for new features and support release deployments outside normal office hours.
• Participate in quarterly planning and design sessions using the SAFe framework.

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• Design, develop and test software contributing to quantum error correction technology.
• Work closely with colleagues across software engineering, research and other technical disciplines.
• Explore ideas, evaluate different approaches and contribute to technical problem-solving.
• Communicate work through discussions, presentations and written reports.
• Develop understanding of quantum computers, quantum error correction and their applications.

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What you would do

• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM).
• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns to elevate the resilience of SaaS products.
• Collaborate with and educate engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and management, including post-incident analysis.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Drive automation initiatives and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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What you would do

• Develop novel decoding algorithms and techniques for quantum error correction.
• Assess decoding challenges across various qubit modalities and quantum codes, designing tailored approaches for each platform.
• Model physical noise processes on qubits to improve decoding accuracy.
• Test and verify hypotheses using numerical methods.
• Collaborate with quantum computing partners to understand and model qubit error processes.
• Present research results and share expertise with internal teams to guide QEC stack development.

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