Software Engineer II

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 are seeking an innovative, passionate Software Engineer II to join our new AI Content team. You will help build and maintain scalable pipelines to ingest content into a centralized storage system, develop a scalable content enrichment and retrieval system, and create pipelines to load content search indexes. These systems are in early-stage implementation, and this team has the remit to ingest massive amounts of content to support AI-powered products across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and build robust and scalable pipelines, following clean code and best-practice software engineering principles.

• Work with technologies including Python (FastAPI), Java (Spring Boot), Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka, and RDBMS.

• Build cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor services, automating common tasks mercilessly.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and high-quality solutions.

• Conduct code reviews and maintain high standards for software quality.

• Additionally, experience with large-scale content management systems and big data is highly valued.

Requirements:

• +2 years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong commercial experience delivering server-side applications.

• Excellent programming skills in Java and Python.

• 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 to keep pace with a rapidly evolving ecosystem.

• Inclusive, positive, and collaborative mindset with a desire to deliver real business value.

• Ability to handle ambiguity, refine and execute higher-level tasks, and perform detailed code reviews.

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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.

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