Senior Software Engineer II

Do you have extensive software engineering experience?

Would you like to join our great software engineering team?

About Team:

The Recommenders team at Elsevier specialises in developing recommendation systems through Data Science and Machine Learning. Their goal is to aid researchers in finding relevant papers, funding opportunities, and peer reviewers, ultimately facilitating scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. They are motivated by the belief in technology's transformative potential to advance research.

About Role:   

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic developer to showcase their work and enhance our data. Collaboration is key, so you should be open to pairing and committed to ongoing learning and mentoring colleagues.

Key Responsibilities :

Designing, prototyping, and implementing robust recommendation applications using best-practice agile development processes

Working with technologies including Java, Scala, Spark, EMR, Kubernetes, and Airflow

Building cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor the applications, and automating common tasks mercilessly.

Collaborating as part of a tight-knit, agile, quality-focused team to deliver tangible value to our customers.

  Requirements :

Experience in commercial software engineering to deliver server-side applications.

Experience in programming skills on the JVM with either Java 8+ or Scala

Experience with agile practices for rapid development of quality software, such as CI/TD

Candidate who can rapidly grasp modern technologies, languages, and tools to maintain our product's edge in a fast-changing industry.

Build an inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver genuine business value to our customers.

Why Join Us?

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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 flexible hours - flexing the times when you work during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

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 the employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About 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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