Senior Software Engineer II

Do you have extensive software engineering experience?

Would you like to join our great software engineering team?

About our Team

The Recommenders team at Elsevier specializes in developing recommendation systems through Data Science and Machine Learning. Their goal is to aid researchers in finding relevant papers, funding opportunities, and peer reviewers, ultimately facilitating scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. They are motivated by the belief in technology's transformative potential to advance research.

About the Role

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic developer to showcase their work and enhance our data. Collaboration is key, so you should be open to pairing and committed to ongoing learning and mentoring colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Designing, prototyping, and implementing robust recommendation applications using best-practice agile development processes

• Working with technologies including Java, Scala, Spark, EMR, Kubernetes, and Airflow

• Building cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor the applications, automating common tasks mercilessly

• Collaborating as part of a tight-knit, agile, quality-focused team to deliver tangible value to our customers

Requirements

• Experience in commercial software engineering to deliver server-side applications

• Experience in programming skills on the JVM with either Java 8+ or Scala

• Experience with agile practices for rapid development of quality software, such as CI/, TD

• Candidate who can rapidly grasp new technologies, languages, and tools to maintain our product's edge in a fast-changing industry.

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

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 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.

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. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.