Senior Software Engineer

Cambium Assessment is a company that provides custom software solutions and internal support systems, focusing on the online testing industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Analysis software engineering team, where the role involves optimizing database access, designing performant systems, and contributing to both backend and frontend development while tackling scalability challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Milliseconds matter! Performance is key! Optimizing database access, algorithms, choosing the right data structures, in general working to design performant systems
• We write code from the ground up. We don’t use a lot of frameworks, packages, etc. Not a lot of macro-level stuff. Core software engineering chops is what we’re looking for
• Our suite of systems is vast and varied. There are web services (REST, SOAP, hybrid), windows services, daemons, websites, libraries, command line tools, windows apps. And they’re always in motion, being enhanced to meet new requirements and to move them into the future. We have plans to redesign several of the older systems, which will be a lot of fun
• There are a lot of system interfaces, both within our own suite as well as across teams in the organization. Plenty of opportunities for collaboration with a lot of smart people
• We have immediate needs for refactoring and several enhancements to allow us to scale up to meet increased loads. Although our front-end needs are modest we are looking for someone that can help us with new front end development and enhancements to existing systems
• We mostly use SQL server and C#

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or related field) and 5+ years professional .NET software development experience or master's degree in computer science and 3+ years of .NET software development experience or related experience
• SQL experience to include development work with relational databases, stored procedures, triggers, writing SQL queries
• Experienced in object-oriented design
• Solid understanding of algorithms
• Detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Self-starter, ability to work in a team environment as well as alone
• AWS
• M.S. in Computer Science