Senior Software Engineer-Python

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Technology team. This is an amazing opportunity to work on Clarivate’s Alexander Street product and content management systems. Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, and streaming media for learning and research.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or similar engineering or science discipline.
• Overall, 4 - 7 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years of hands-on development experience in Python & development frameworks like Django & Flask.
• At least 2 years of Experience with Cloud architecture and services, AWS ideally.
• Strong working experience with Relational Databases, preferably MySQL with deep proficiency in SQL.
• Good Linux/Shell Script development and developing REST APIs.
• Strong experience in GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.

It would be great if you also had . . .

• Experience in PHP and related framework and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Familiarity with Simple Queuing Service (SQS) or RabbitMQ and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies
• Familiarity with search engines, SOLR or Elasticsearch, and with NoSQL databases, such as DynamoDB

What will you be doing in this role?

• Developing and maintaining the applications and systems that support Content Operations workflows feeding data into a video streaming application. This involves the ingestion, indexing, and publishing of digital content (audio, video, text/documents, images) to the Alexander Street product platforms.
• Will be integral part of project teams in designing and developing solutions around product platform enhancements, and in initiatives to enhance the content management applications and systems.
• Directly support the Content Operations team in resolving issues and responding to requests for system changes.
• Collaborate with other technology teams on development projects, working with Scrum Masters and Team Leads on cross-team initiatives, coordinate testing with QA team, and deployments with Infrastructure and Deployment team.

About the Team

This role is part of the technology team as part of the Academia & Government business segment. Our squads collaborate to build the best-in-class software solutions.

Hours of Work

Full time job with work 9 hour/day including lunch break

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