Elsevier
Senior Software Engineer Java/React/Angular
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Senior Software Engineer Java/React/Angular
Are you passionate about building scalable, cloud-based applications that power the future of science and healthcare? Do you enjoy collaborating across teams to design innovative solutions and continuously improve delivery in a fast-moving environment?
About our Team
Our STMJ (Science, Technology, and Medical Journals) team publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research that drives progress across scientific and medical disciplines. We collaborate closely with authors, editors, reviewers, and societies to ensure the integrity and impact of the published work. Through innovation in editorial workflows and publishing technology, we help global research communities discover, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge that advances science and improves lives.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling cloud-based applications that support next-generation products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions, contribute to architectural decisions, and continuously improve development practices in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system to build our next-generation product
- Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify requirements and gather feedback in a fast-moving environment
- Providing input into architectural decisions to ensure stability and performance
- Identifying and implementing enhancements to continually improve our delivery process
- Partnering with cross-functional Agile and DevOps implementation teams
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Requirements
- Demonstrate proficiency in most of these technologies; Java, Spring / Spring Boot, a JavaScript / TypeScript tool (React, Angular, etc), SQL with a willingness to learn the others.
- Display experience with build tools, Git and continuous integration (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)
- Enjoy collaborating with team members to create innovative solutions
- Have experience of supporting and mentoring team members to share knowledge and up-skill team members
- Show experience with alerting, monitoring and logging tools (NewRelic, OpenSearch / Kibana, Coralogix)
- Be familiar with how to design and develop for cloud environments (i.e. docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
- Have experience of test-driven development and mocking libraries (Jest, Mockito)
- Some exposure to DevOps (terraform)
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Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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