Software Engineer II - Search and AI Platform

About Us:

Working in technology at Elsevier means that your work really does matter – it changes lives. And you’ll see the real-world impact of your day-to-day efforts.

Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. For more than 140 years, we’ve helped impact makers to advance science and healthcare to advance human progress, and that same mission drives us today.

If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, join us. Let’s shape progress together.

About the Team:

The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier’s agentic data platform powering products such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, and our next-generation LLM-powered research systems. The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled collection of research data to deliver insights to the scientific community so they can collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and deliver quality research more quickly.

We are committed to building cohesive teams where communication, support, and innovation thrive. Instead of taking a top-down approach to new ideas, all members of the team are empowered to contribute—great ideas can come from anywhere. We’re a truly global company with colleagues in all regions of the world, offering a stimulating environment that enables bright, passionate people to do their best work.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a passionate Software Engineer II to support the activities. There are many ETL pipelines, data stores, dataset generation and content retrieval capabilities that require continuous modification, execution and support. The team works closely with both product and other platform teams to meet business requirements, organization policies and evolving standards. 

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining, designing, extending and improving robust and scalable pipelines, following clean code and best-practice software engineering principles 

• Working with technologies including Java (Spring) microservices, Airflow, AWS, SQL, shell scripting, git, GitHub Actions and SFTP  

• Collaborating with operations to build and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor the services and automating common tasks mercilessly 

• Regularly collaborating with business partners on priorities while still maintaining alignment with architectural and security standards and policies. 

• Supporting the Tech Lead, senior engineers and more junior engineers, providing code reviews, beginning to contribute to the planning of work and ensuring execution of task on timelines 

Requirements:

• A passionate engineer with 1-2 years of commercial software engineering experience delivering server-side applications 

• Experience programming with Java 17+ or Spring

• Experience with databases

• An advocate of best practices for rapid development of quality software, including clean code, architectural design patterns and CI/CD 

• Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job 

• An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers 

Nice to have 

• Experience with large-scale, content management systems and big data 

• Experience with ETL, Oracle/MySQL DB, Python, Airflow 

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 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:

• Private Medical/Dental Plan

• Savings Fund

• Life Insurance

• Meal/Grocery Voucher

About Elsevier:

Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We empower professionals and institutions to realize the potential of information to improve academic, corporate, and clinical performance, expand human knowledge, and generate positive—often groundbreaking—outcomes in critical domains of human endeavor.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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