Full Stack Engineer

Department: Product & Technology

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: Depending on experience

Role Overview

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will take the technical lead on the architectural evolution of our cutting-edge Data & AI education platform. You will be responsible for designing scalable PostgreSQL schemas and GCP-backed APIs while building sophisticated, testable user interfaces using Vue.js. Beyond individual contribution, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex features, mentoring junior engineers and translating high-level business goals into robust, high-performance technical reality.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a small, fast-paced team to contribute to the architectural evolution of an innovative Data & AI education platform and take the technical lead on individual features and small projects.
• Design, architect, and maintain highly scalable APIs and data pipelines.
• Take ownership of and significantly contribute to backend systems that handle large volumes of data from the learner’s journey, focusing on performance and reliability.
• Develop complex front-end features and user interfaces using Vue.js, ensuring maintainability, testability, and adherence to best practices, including robust unit testing.
• Architect, optimise, and troubleshoot efficient SQL queries and database schemas in PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and performance at scale.
• Define and implement best practices for leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services to support a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues and bugs, mentoring junior team members and promptly responding to support tickets to maintain platform reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Lead project work for specific features, gathering requirements, scoping, and translating business objectives into technical designs to support other functions within the business.

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer or similar role
• Strong expertise with a Python web framework (Flask, Django, etc.) and the ability to design and implement RESTful APIs
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing resources with a major cloud provider (GCP or equivalent), including familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles
• Expertise with software development tools and processes (advanced Git, robust CI/CD pipelines, comprehensive monitoring/logging) and DevOps practices
• Strong proficiency with HTML, CSS, and a modern Javascript framework (Vue.js, React, or equivalent), with a focus on building high-performance, well-structured, and accessible UIs
• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining robust Frontend unit testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Vue Test Utils)
• Advanced knowledge of SQL (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite or equivalent), including query optimisation, indexing strategies, and database schema design
• AI-Driven Development: Proficient in leveraging LLM-powered development tools—such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Dev—to accelerate code generation, refactoring, and debugging while maintaining high standards for code quality and security.

Desirable

Company Benefits:

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• Opportunity to opt into our salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.