Senior Software Engineer II

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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 wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

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.

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Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity.We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers.Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 38,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray's Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. With a wide range of technology jobs, commercial and business jobs, and graduate jobs, there is a part for everyone to play. We need talented people to help us inspire ground-breaking research.

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