Senior Software Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Oxford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll design and build features for a microservice platform. Collaborate with a skilled team, promote best practices, and enjoy a flexible work environment that supports personal growth and work/life balance.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Life assurance

Competitive pension scheme

Long service awards

Share option scheme

Travel Season ticket loan

Parental leave

Emergency care access

Learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Solid development experience with Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices.
• Familiar with DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features in collaboration with the technical lead.
• Iterate over agile practices delivering continuous improvements.
• Mentor and share knowledge with other engineers.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

DevOps

Communication

Job description

Do you enjoy being part of team that collaborates to deliver success?

Do you want to join our mission to help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science?

Do you want to be part of a team that promotes personal growth and strives to maintain excellent work/life balance?

About the team

We are a software development team of Java engineers maintaining an event-driven pipeline in a microservice architecture. The platform has evolved from a single-purpose billing platform into an increasingly versatile system with a constantly growing set of functions and an expanding number of global users. Agile, people over process, and a data-driven mindset, and good engineering practices are at the heart of what we do. We firmly believe these principles will allow us to build robust and scalable software.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer I, you will be responsible for designing and building new features. You will need to combine both excellent technical expertise with architectural knowledge, and work closely with the technical lead to explore new ideas and solutions. You have a keen interest in improving our ways of working by reflecting on best agile practices. This will allow you to elevate the engineering culture in a team of engineers of different levels of experience, to build a company-leading microservice platform.

Responsibilities

Partnering closely with the technical lead to understand complex requirements and implement designs that deliver on the desired capabilities

Apply existing knowledge of the system's core technology to deliver on the product roadmap

Iterate over agile practices within the team, delivering continuous improvements

Proactively engage with other team members to grow their software development skills and encourage engineering best practices

Leveraging the latest technologies, including automation tools, continuous experiments, testing, and learning approaches.

Requirements

Have solid development experience with Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices

Have an understanding knowledge of software development methodologies

Be familiar with using DevOps methodologies such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and the basics of Cloud-Based Infrastructure

Be familiar of architectural principles

Be a great communicator and enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge with other engineers

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

Our team works remote, but we do organize days in the office from time to time to collaborate in-person, which you are expected to join. We offer flexible working hours, allowing you to adjust the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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 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.

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:

Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

Life assurance

Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

Long service awards

Save As You Earn share option scheme

Travel Season ticket loan

Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

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 via Perks at Work

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.

Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.

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