Senior Full-Stack Engineer for Research Publishing (Hybrid)

Elsevier; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Home, office, or commuting allowance

Flexible working hours

Employee Assistance Program (global)

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer to design, implement, and deploy cloud-based systems supporting researchers in publishing workflows. You’ll work within Agile teams, contribute to architecture, and help evolve our AI-enabled capabilities.

You will mentor teammates, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve delivery practices while operating in a hybrid Oxford-based setup that embraces modern tooling and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with build tools, Git, and CI (GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
• Strong collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor teammates and upskill the team.
• Experience with alerting/monitoring/logging tools (New Relic, OpenSearch/Kibana, Coralogix).
• Proficient in IDEs (IntelliJ/VSCode) and refactoring tools.
• Familiar with cloud design/deploy (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Experience with Jest or Mockito for testing.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence for documentation.
• Knowledge of Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban).
• Exposure to DevOps (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-hosted distributed applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for stability and performance.
• Identify and implement enhancements to improve delivery processes.
• Partner with cross-functional Agile and DevOps teams.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

Mentoring

Agile practices

Cloud architecture

AI literacy

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Documentation

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

New Relic

OpenSearch

Kibana

Coralogix

IntelliJ

VSCode

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer to design, implement, and deploy cloud-based systems supporting researchers in publishing workflows. You’ll work within Agile teams, contribute to architecture, and help evolve our AI-enabled capabilities.

You will mentor teammates, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve delivery practices while operating in a hybrid Oxford-based setup that embraces modern tooling and DevOps practices.