Senior Agentic AI Full-Stack Software Engineer (Java & React / Javascript / Angular / Claude Code / Codex)
Senior Agentic AI Full-Stack Software Engineer (Java & React / JavaScript / Angular / Claude Code / Codex)
Would you like to help create products to support the sharing of scientific knowledge?
Do you enjoy collaborating to solve complex technical problems?
About the team:
Our dynamic Agile Teams deliver the technology that facilitates researchers to publish quality scientific research. As a Software Engineer, you will build capabilities to improve the quality of scientific research.
About the role:
As a Senior II Software Engineer, you will build capabilities to support scientific researchers through the process of submitting the research for publication. We are continually evolving our technology in response to researchers’ needs and to the ever-changing technical landscape, including the use of AI technologies.
Key responsibilities:
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
· 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
Requirements:
We know it, and we're excited about it. AI-assisted and agentic development is reshaping what engineers do day to day. We will allow good engineers to build and evolve their skills into the roles of the future.
What you'll bring
You will demonstrate proficiency in the majority of the requirements below, along with the attitudes and behaviours that make a great engineer on our team.
Technical
- Core Engineering Stack: Proficiency in most of our core technologies (Java, Spring / Spring Boot, JavaScript / TypeScript frameworks such as React or Angular, and SQL), with a willingness to learn others. Experience with Python is desirable but not essential.
- Agentic Engineering: Proven experience using agentic coding workflows and modern AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Codex, Cursor) to plan, build, refactor, and document complex systems. You can discuss the role of judgement in agentic engineering: when to delegate to an agent, how to verify its output, and where human accountability remains.
- AI-Assisted Troubleshooting: Experience using AI tools to analyse metrics and logs across observability platforms (e.g., New Relic, OpenSearch / Kibana, Coralogix).
- Cloud & Delivery: Familiarity with containerised, distributed cloud environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins), alongside solid version control (Git).
Growth, leadership & collaboration
- Rapid Learning: A proven track record of learning new skills effectively and rapidly.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Actively mentors and teaches junior engineers, and actively drives discussions to improve working practices and code quality.
- Collaboration: Real-world Agile experience (Scrum/Kanban) and clear communication across disciplines, including product and UX.
How you work
- Ownership & Judgement: Takes responsibility, solves problems, makes decisions, and weighs risks, including when working with AI tools and agents.
- Curiosity & Product Mindset: Stays aware of what's happening in the industry, and takes a genuine interest in the domain and the business.
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 organization. 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.
This is a hybrid role that requires travel to our Oxford office at least once per week, preferably on Tuesdays.
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:
· Comprehensive Pension Plan
· Home, office, or commuting allowance
· Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
· Flexible working hours
· Personal Choice budget
· Internal communities and networks
· Various employee discounts
· Recruitment introduction reward
· Employee Assistance Program (global)
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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Skills Required
- Proficiency in most of Java, Spring or Spring Boot, JavaScript or TypeScript, React or Angular, and SQL
- Experience with build tools, Git, and continuous integration using GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Experience supporting and mentoring team members
- Experience with alerting, monitoring, and logging tools such as New Relic, OpenSearch, Kibana, or Coralogix
- Experience with IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio Code and refactoring tools
- Experience with test-driven development and mocking libraries such as Jest or Mockito
- Experience creating and updating technical documentation using Jira and Confluence
- Real-world experience with Agile practices, including Scrum or Kanban
- Familiarity with cloud development using Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS
- Exposure to DevOps and Terraform
- Interest in or experience with AI-based solutions
- Willingness to learn and grow technical skills
- Ability to collaborate with team members and business stakeholders
- Ability to work hybrid and travel to the Oxford office at least once per week
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
