Lead Software Engineer - People Leader

RXinsider LTD.; Andover (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Software Engineering Lead / Tech Lead to guide a high-performing team focused on scholarly publishing technology. You will drive architecture, mentoring, and delivery ownership while ensuring secure, scalable software and robust testing.

The role combines technical direction with people leadership and close collaboration with Product, Design, DevOps, and Architecture to deliver value.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience with leadership or delivery responsibility.
• Ability to lead technical decision-making across multiple teams.
• Proficiency in one or more modern languages: Python, Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding, reviews, and troubleshooting.
• Lead design, architecture, development, deployment, and support of complex software solutions.
• Define technical direction aligned with product goals and business priorities.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure high-quality, secure, scalable, and maintainable software with good documentation.
• Promote strong engineering practices including CI/CD and testing.
• Lead sprint planning, estimation, and delivery discussions.

Skills

Leadership experience

Programming languages: Python/Java/C#/

Communication & mentoring

Technical delivery leadership

Distributed systems & APIs

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

DevOps practices

Job description

Must be able to work in North Andover Mass without requiring relocation assistance.

Are you a collaborative Lead Software Engineer looking to work for a mission driven global organization?

About the Role - We are seeking a Software Engineering Lead / Tech Lead to lead a high-performing team of engineers in the design, delivery, and operation of scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, people leadership, and delivery ownership. Alongside guiding architecture and delivery, you will mentor engineers, improve team performance, and help create software that is secure, maintainable, well-tested, and operationally sound.

About the team - This team supports scholarly publishing technology products. These products are aligned to manuscript submission, peer review, and publishing workflow platforms for academic journals and publishers. This team works closely with Product, Architecture, Design, DevOps, and other stakeholders to shape technical solutions, deliver business value, and build an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture.

What You Will Do

As a Software Engineering Lead / Tech Lead, you will be:

• Providing hands-on technical leadership through coding, reviews, troubleshooting, and support for complex engineering challenges. Mentor, coach, and develop engineers, helping them grow their skills and careers
• Leading the design, architecture, development, deployment, and support of complex software solutions and product features
• Defining and communicating technical direction in alignment with product goals and broader business priorities
• Partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements, guide discovery, and translate business needs into practical technical solutions
• Ensuring software is high quality, secure, scalable, reliable, performant, maintainable, and well documented
• Driving strong engineering practices including clean code, code reviews, testing, AI use, CI/CD, and continuous improvement
• Leading planning, estimation, sprint execution, and delivery discussions, helping the team balance speed, quality, and long-term sustainability

What We're Looking For

You will likely bring:

• Significant software engineering experience, including experience leading engineers or technical delivery.
• Experience leading technical decision-making, resolving complex issues, and working across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Possess extensive experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, scalability, performance, and security
• Experience working with AWS and modern engineering tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
• Knowledge of Agile ways of working, including backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Experience mentoring or line managing engineers, including supporting performance, development, and team growth
• A pragmatic approach to decision-making, with the ability to balance technical quality, business value, and delivery outcomes

Elsevier employs 10,000 people worldwide, including over 2,500 technologists. We have supported the work of our research and health partners for more than 140 years. Growing from our roots in publishing, we offer knowledge and valuable analytics that help our users make breakthroughs and drive societal progress.

Digital solutions such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath support strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, medical education, and nursing education. Researchers and healthcare professionals rely on over 2,800 journals, including The Lancet and Cell; 46,000+ eBook titles; and iconic reference works, such as Gray's Anatomy. With the Elsevier Foundation and our external Inclusion & Diversity Advisory Board, we work in partnership with diverse stakeholders to advance inclusion and diversity in science, research and healthcare in developing countries and around the world.