Research Development Software Engineer

Apex Systems US
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£35 – £40 ph

Salary

£35 – £40 ph

Job Type
Contract
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
15 May 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Title : Research Development Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, UK- 50 % on site

End date: 30th June 26 (12 months intent)

Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future.

Required

* Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code review, and documentation.

* Experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.

* Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment of Azure-hosted or similar cloud services.

* Experience designing and building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at reasonable scale.

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with evolving requirements, translate research goals into practical technical solutions, and debug complex systems.

* Experience with frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript.

* Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience.

This focuses more on the engineering aspects than before:

* Shifted emphasis from evaluation/research to platform engineering, APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and operational reliability

* Added CI/CD, monitoring, containerisation, and deployment as explicit responsibilities

* Moved ML/evaluation experience from required to preferred

* Made Python engineering skills the lead qualification rather than PhD

* Added API/backend frameworks and cloud infrastructure as required experience

* Reduced references to human studies and community evaluation workflows

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