Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer-Python to join our Technology team in Bangalore. 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. We're passionate about creating landmark online resources that help scholars and students discover and learn.

About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

Bachelor's degree in computer science, or similar engineering or science discipline. Minimum 5 years of hands-on development experience in Python & development frameworks like Django & Flask. Minimum 3 years of Experience with Cloud architecture and services, AWS ideally. Strong working experience with Relational Databases, preferably MySQL with deep proficiency in SQL. 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 the Infrastructure and Deployment team.

Product you will be developing

The Content Management systems and applications are used by the Content Operations team to ingest digital content and prepare that content for publishing to one of the Alexander Street product platforms at search.alexanderstreet.com and video.alexanderstreet.com. The systems support workflows including creating content metadata, indexing content, processing to prepare for publishing (such as transcoding audio/video content, formatting text and transcript files), and loading to the CDN. Metadata is processed and fed to the product platform databases and search engines.


The applications and systems involve a variety of technologies, including Python and PHP with MySQL databases. Supporting applications also involve Python with some PHP, HTML/JavaScript.


The content database also interfaces with other systems in providing data to the customer Administration Portal, to the royalty reporting system, and to other content publishers.

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

This is a permanent role with Clarivate, you will be working in IST time zone, 9 hours per day including lunch break.


At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.