Senior API Platform Engineer – Design, Onboarding & Growth

Elsevier Limited Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Country-specific benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Fair and accessible hiring

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the Enterprise API Platform. You will participate in design discussions, develop test driven code, pair with teammates, mentor juniors and support the existing API Platforms.

It aims to provide a good developer experience for API users both inside and outside Elsevier. Responsibilities include onboarding APIs, improving the dev portal, and rapidly resolving support requests.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Java and JavaScript with Groovy and JSP experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Maven/Gradle build tools and PostgreSQL.
• Experience using AWS via Terraform and cloud-native observability tools.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Interface with technical teams to finalize requirements and designs.
• Develop test-driven code and review complex component implementations.
• Fix complex bugs and translate requirements into software designs.
• Collaborate across teams to implement processes, reviews, and best practices.
• Train junior engineers and support various development environments.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Groovy

JSP

HTML

XML

SQL

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Maven

Gradle

PostgreSQL

AWS Terraform

New Relic

Kibana

Docker

Kubernetes

kubectl

k9s

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the Enterprise API Platform. You will participate in design discussions, develop test driven code, pair with teammates, mentor juniors and support the existing API Platforms.

It aims to provide a good developer experience for API users both inside and outside Elsevier. Responsibilities include onboarding APIs, improving the dev portal, and rapidly resolving support requests.