Senior Software Engineer – Backend
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our backend engineering squad. This team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data and processing pipelines that power our core systems. As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in developing scalable and reliable backend solutions, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and contributing to architectural decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable backend systems and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and DevOps to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Ensure high code quality through code reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices.
- Contribute to the adoption of modern engineering practices and tools.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Participate in technical roadmap discussions and provide input on architectural decisions.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong backend development experience in Scala.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, etc.).
- Proficiency with Kafka for event streaming and messaging.
- Experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Exposure to data engineering or big data technologies (Spark, Snowflake).
- Exposure to AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) is beneficial.
- A bachelor's degree (BS) is required; an MSc or PhD is a nice to have.
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 in 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:
- Dutch Share Purchase Plan
- Annual Profit Share Bonus
- Comprehensive Pension Plan
- Home, office or commuting allowance
- Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
- Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
- Flexible working hours
- Personal Choice budget
- Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
- Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
- Internal communities and networks
- Various employee discounts
- Recruitment introduction reward
- Work from anywhere
- Employee Assistance Program (global)
- Annual Event
About Elsevier
Elsevier is one of the world’s leading publishers of trusted scientific, technology, and medical content. Building on that foundation of content, we leverage data science and AI to deliver knowledge and analytics products that advance science and improve healthcare outcomes. Therefore, an efficient, streamlined, and optimized data science development process is key to sustaining innovation and business growth, especially with the opportunities ahead with GenAI. Elsevier is committed to adhere to our RELX Responsible AI Principles, for the development and deployment of all of our AI solutions.
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