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Principal Software Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Participate in design discussions, develop test-driven code, mentor juniors, and maintain both legacy and new API platforms, providing a good developer experience.
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About our Team: 

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 serve the research, academic and clinical communities through the application of technology and analytics to content. Our portfolio of solutions brings together extensive Scientific, Technical and Medical content, powerful analytics, and technologies. We help our corporate customers, R&D professionals, engineers, scientists and commercial marketing leaders, to innovate and commercialize ideas, products and processes.

 

About the Role: 

As a Principal Software Engineer you are expected to participate in technical discussions to come up with a design to meet Product Requirements, develop test driven code, pair with team members, mentor juniors and support the existing API Platforms. 

Within this team/role you will look after a legacy and new Enterprise API Platform for Elsevier. It aims to provide a good developer experience for anyone using the Platform both within and outside of Elsevier. Smooth onboarding of APIs to the Platform, ease of use of the dev portal for the customers and rapid resolution of support requests are the Team's goals. 

Requirements: 

  • Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: Java, JavaScript, Groovy, JSP, HTML, XML, SQL and bash. 

  • Knowledge and experience of build tools – Maven and Gradle 

  • Knowledge and experience of relational DBMS – Postgresdb 

  • Knowledge of using AWS services via Terraform - Secrets Manager, Kinesis Firehose, S3, Open Search etc 

  • Knowledge and experience of configuring and using New Relic, Kibana for observing metrics and configuring alerts. 

  • Knowledge and experience of using Docker, containers, helm, kustomize to set up and manage Kubernetes applications. 

  • Knowledge and experience of using kubectl, k9s and similar tools to observe and manage k8s resources 

  • A bonus if you have Knowledge of networks –AWS ACM certificates, VPC’s, transit gateways etc 

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources.

  • Provide design input across a product.

  • Work directly with customers and end users.

  • Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues.

  • Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.

  • Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

  • Design and work with complex data models.

  • Mentor lead software developers interested in consultancy on development methodologies and optimization techniques.

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 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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Top Skills

AWS
Bash
Docker
Gradle
Groovy
Helm
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Jsp
Kibana
Kubernetes
Kustomize
Maven
New Relic
Postgresdb
SQL
Terraform
XML

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