We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join the Search Platform team within Elsevier’s Search and AI Platform. This role is suited to an experienced backend engineer with hands-on search experience who enjoys working on large-scale, cloud-native systems and wants to deepen their impact in a platform environment.
Requirements
- Experience of professional software engineering experience in backend or platform roles
- Hands-on experience with search systems (e.g. Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, Lucene-based systems, or equivalent)
- Strong Java experience, ideally using Spring / Spring Boot
- Production experience with Kubernetes, including deploying and operating services
- Experience building and running cloud-based systems (preferably AWS) with CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES 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 scheme via Perks at Work