Senior Software Engineer I

About Our Team

Our team is responsible for Digital Commons, a best-in-class hosted software solution for institutions wishing to publish, manage and display their research and scholarship on the Web.

Our customers include leading academic institutions, research institutes, and government agencies. We help librarians, researchers, scientists, and students make their work globally accessible.

We use Scrum, Kanban and select Extreme Programming practices, including user stories, automated testing, and continuous integration.

We use GitHub pull requests and peer-review the code we write. We practice dual-track agile, interleaving discovery and prototyping with product development activities.

We also play a lot of Codenames.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Digital Commons development squad, you will help transform a monolithic legacy system into a suite of modern Web services and applications.

This is not a mere migration exercise, but an opportunity to reimagine and rearchitect our product offering. Apply your creativity, past experiences, and technical chops to help us find opportunities to radically improve workflows and overall user experience and streamline our operations.

Responsibilities

Collaborating on product ideation, technical approach and solution design

Researching and evaluating technologies, architectures and design patterns

Translating product requirements into clear technical designs

Performing technical spikes to explore solutions and reduce uncertainty

Building Web applications and services, employing clean code and best practices

Maintaining and improving existing applications

Optimizing performance and resource use

Refactoring your code and others’

Creating and maintaining automated tests

Participating in peer code reviews

Mentoring and training junior developers

Enacting our agile development process with a commitment to continuous improvement

Requirements

Be proficient in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred)

Have server- and client-side Web development skills, with expertise in one or the other

Have experience with REST, APIs, JSON, JavaScript and React (TypeScript desirable)

Have some experience migrating legacy systems, e.g., from monolith to services

Be able to design, create and query a relational database

Possess strong object-oriented design skills

Have employed agile methods (e.g., XP, Scrum)

Have experience deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Have experience writing automated tests (TDD experience desirable)

Be able to communicate clearly in person and in writing

Be willing to collaborate with other developers, business stakeholders and customers

The salary range provided in this posting is the base salary range for California.$95,700.00 - $159,500.00

Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer : qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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