Senior Graph Engineer – Search & AI Platform

Elsevier; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement

Sabbatical leave

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Fam

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Shared Graph Team within the Search and AI Platform in Amsterdam. You will design graph-based search services and build scalable backend systems using Java/Spring Boot, GraphQL, and AWS/Kubernetes.

You will collaborate to deliver advanced search and recommendation features, ensure reliable monitoring, and promote clean code and SOLID practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems or search platforms.
• Proven track record building scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Strong expertise in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL API/REST APIs design.
• Solid background in cloud-native architectures with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Advocate of best practices for rapid development of quality software, including SOLID, clean code, architectural patterns, CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Agile, Kanban, or other iterative development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement graph-based search services.
• Develop applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring, GraphQL, and GraphQL Federation.
• Integrate with databases, web services, or AWS services to support ingestion, storage, and messaging pipelines.
• Champion clean code, SOLID principles, and engineering best practices, mentoring engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to deliver advanced search and recommendation features.
• Ensure robust monitoring and logging with New Relic and Coralogix, driving reliability and performance.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

GraphQL

REST APIs

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

SOLID principles

CI/CD

Agile/Kanban

Tools

GraphQL API/REST design

Neo4j

DynamoDB

RDS

S3

SQS

SNS

Kinesis

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for the Shared Graph Team within the Search and AI Platform in Amsterdam. You will design graph-based search services and build scalable backend systems using Java/Spring Boot, GraphQL, and AWS/Kubernetes.

You will collaborate to deliver advanced search and recommendation features, ensure reliable monitoring, and promote clean code and SOLID practices across the team.