We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help create products to support the sharing of scientific knowledge. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build capabilities to support scientific researchers through the process of submitting the research for publication. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system, collaborating with business stakeholders, and providing input into architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Demonstrate proficiency in most of these technologies: Java 17 or higher, 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)
- Demonstrate experience with a modern IDE (IntelliJ / VSCode) and proficiency in using the refactoring tools
- Be open to discussing and honing approaches for our team to improve our working practices
- Have experience of test-driven development and mocking libraries (Jest, Mockito)
- Be familiar collaborative documentation tools (Jira and Confluence)
- Real world experience of Agile practices and execution (Scrum, Kanban)
- Be familiar with how to design and develop for cloud environments (i.e. docker, k8 / Kubernetes, AWS)
- Wanting to learn or have experience with AI based solutions
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Access to learning platforms and encouragement to book up to 10 days focused learning/development time per year
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Long service awards
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RELX Cares days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work
