Senior Developer

Senior Developer - Editorial Experience 

We’re looking for a proactive senior software developer with several years of experience who can help us build the best publication experience in the world. 

The job is based in our Lisbon location, and you will be working with team members based in London and Lisbon. We offer a mixed remote/office working with up to three days per week working from home.  You'll be part of our bigger community of developers located in the UK, India, Germany and Portugal. 

Visit sndigital.springernature.com to learn more about who we are and what we do. 

About Us  

We are looking for skilled and passionate software developers to help us build the best products that enable the research community to advance the progress and understanding of science. In this role you will be helping to build our next generation peer review system. 

We work closely with our editorial teams both in London and India, have focus groups with external editorial board members and report to a senior level programme board. It’s a high-profile programme of work and we are constantly working to evolve our content and business models; keeping us competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape. 

You will be joining a cross functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. All team members collaborate to deliver solutions that best satisfy the needs of researchers.  

We value engineering excellence, and believe quality is what helps us go fast. You will work on a system which has dozens of impactful deployments to production every working day.  

About You  

• You have several years of experience developing software in Kotlin and JavaScript and have a good understanding of how to build web applications, end to end. 

• You enjoy mentoring less experienced developers. 

• You like working in a collaborative team, where there is collective ownership of the product. 

• You enjoy getting involved with every stage of the software development lifecycle. 

• You would enjoy working in a Test-Driven environment and understand the benefits. 

• You would enjoy pair programming and working in a trunk-based development environment; practising Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. 

• You see the value in developers owning production software and view failure as a chance to learn. 

• You believe in and can articulate our company strategy on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and you want to make Springer Nature Digital a more inclusive environment for everyone 

What you will be doing 

Within 3 Months you will: 

• Get familiar with our technology stack. All our new applications are built in Kotlin using http4k. Our applications are deployed to CloudFoundry using Concourse. 

• Make a real impact for our users, by improving our peer review system with new features and improvements 

• Get familiar with, and take part in, the team’s agile processes and ceremonies. 

• Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications. 

By 3-6 months you will: 

• Be a supportive member of the team, understanding our end-to-end, developing our infrastructure, including non-functional requirements, and working closely with our technology and Production partners. 

• Understand the team’s context within the publishing business they are working in. 

• Lead technical discussions with the team to improve the product architecture and code quality. 

• Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Owners. 

• Contribute to blameless post-mortems. 

• Take part in the recruiting process, helping to assess applicants across SN Digital. 

• Coach junior members of the team. 

By 6-12 months you will: 

• Onboard new members to the team or help other teams on the onboarding process. 

• Transform high level requirements into actionable work. 

• Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to team members. 

• Become an advocate for defining and implementing non-functional requirements. 

• Influence the design of the system architecture. 

• Be able to explain and visualise the benefits and trade-offs of proposed solutions. 

• Understand our customers’ needs, both internal and external, and how your work affects their experience. 

Day to day responsibilities  

As part of the product team, day-to-day you will: 

• Take part in our daily stand-ups. 

• Contribute to ceremonies like planning, story writing, collaborative design and retrospectives. 

• Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members, as well as working independently. 

• Take part in support and monitoring of our websites. 
   

To apply please upload a copy of your CV and cover letter, stating your salary expectations. 

SPRINGER NATURE - springernature.com 

Springer Nature employs more than 10,000 people in over 50 markets, and is home to some of the best-known names in research, educational and professional publishing.  

We value and celebrate the diversity of our people. We recognise the many benefits of a diverse workforce and strive for an inclusive workplace that empowers all our colleagues to thrive. Our search for the best talent fully encompasses and embraces these values and principles. 

Working at the heart of a changing industry, we are always looking for great people who care about delivering quality to our customers and the communities we work alongside. In return, we provide opportunities to learn from some of the best in the business, with a culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts. 

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