CebAI Backend Software Engineer - 36 months fixed-term contract

Reference Number 60031134
Location Bunhill Row
School / Service Business School
Department Faculty of Management
Contract Duration Fixed Term
Hours Full-time       
Salary Range (£)38017 to 38017

Background

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research.

Led by President, Professor Sir Paul Curran, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

CebAI is the new National Centre for Creativity enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), based at our Business School, and funded by Research England and City, University of London. It will offer and sell new forms of AI and consulting services to businesses to amplify their creative capabilities, so that these businesses can innovate more regularly and successfully. It will support also these businesses to form new ecosystems that reinforce and grow their creative thinking and innovation capabilities.

Responsibilities

This software engineer role will be responsible for designing, developed, maintaining, testing and documenting the CebAI technologies needed to collect, extract, make sense of, search and manipulate very large client data and information sets, as part of the CebAI team. The software engineer will also participate in co-design activities and user evaluation work with clients, to make clients aware of the tech capabilities of the platform and understand how the platform needs to evolve.

Person Specification

The person will have degree in computer science or software engineering. Essential software development skills are backend engineering experience, Python/Node.js preferred; experience with web crawling and scraping; HTTP (REST) APIs and networking; experience working with AWS cloud computing services; search solutions (e.g. ElasticSearch); Linux, git, CI, deployment management, monitoring; experience with test frameworks across a variety of languages; strong debugging skills including the ability to reproduce a bug given limited information/time; and skills to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 11:59pm, 3rd September 2020.

Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity

Academic excellence for business and the professions