Job Description

Senior Principal Software Engineer
Are you a Search Engineer with experience in building and maintaining search platforms?
Would you like to play a key role shaping the future of content discovery around research data?
About our Team
Knowledge Discovery’s mission, as part of the Elsevier Data Platform, is to enable users of our Research Products quickly find relevant content, collaborators, funding opportunities and related information. The information that will help them advance scientific knowledge in their areas of research.
About the Role
As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be playing a critical role in building robust, highly scalable solutions and infrastructure to serve our customers.

You will be building microservices, micro-frontends, APIs, webapps, search tools, graph services, EKS infrastructure, data pipelines and related capabilities. This is to be leveraged by product & experience teams for driving value around search and discovery.
Responsibilities

• Working closely with other development team members to understand complex product requirements and translate them into software designs for implementation
• Being a core contributor to the design and development of our Knowledge Discovery Platform
• Being an architect and subject matter expert in best practices for developing scalable event-based systems
• Working with technologies such as Kafka, Elastic Search, Neo4j, Java, Scala, Spark, GraphQL. Consistently make high-quality individual code contributions, adhering to best practices / patterns
• Building cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor our applications while mercilessly automating common tasks via infrastructure as code.
• Collaborating as part of a tight-knit, agile, delivery focused, team to deliver quality value to our customers

Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience in JVM technologies with good knowledge of design patterns and best practices
• Have good experience within commercial software development
• Have experience with commercial Information Retrieval or Search experience with tools such as Lucene, Solr or ElasticSearch
• Have good experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code
• Be open minded and ready to learn new technologies, languages and tools. This is to ensure our products are up to date with a rapidly evolving ecosystem
• Experience with Agile-Scrum, Kanban/XP

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that 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 with us
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.
Working for you
At Elsevier, 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:

• Group Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)
• Group Life insurance/accident policy
• Generous long-service awards
• New Baby gift
• Subsidised food provided (applies to India- Chennai)
• Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Free Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)

About Us
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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Purposeful Work
When you work with us, your work matters. You are part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.

Growing Every Day
Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your career and personal development.

Colleagues Who Care
You will be part of the Elsevier family. We will support your well-being and provide the flexibility you need to thrive at work and home.

Together, we create possibilities.
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