Senior React/Node Engineer — Healthcare Frontend Lead

Elsevier Inc. Company; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 87,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking an experienced full stack developer (React + Node) to join a healthcare mission-driven team. The role focuses on building frontend features for a flagship clinical product used by physicians and researchers worldwide.

You will collaborate with Product, UX designers, and engineers to design, implement, and maintain complex web applications, ensuring accessibility, performance, and scalability across monoliths and micro-frontends.

Qualifications

• Possess current frontend and backend skills in both React and Node.
• Experience working on moderate to large web monoliths.
• Have taken an application(s) through the full project life cycle process.
• Possess extensive experience utilizing the Agile delivery process for software development.
• Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical professionals to drive innovation.
• Possess an understanding of crucial applications/products in the Science, Medicine, Education business vertical.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining complex applications using React (front end) and Node.js (back end).
• Ensuring seamless integration between client-side and server-side components to deliver responsive, scalable, and secure web applications.
• Developing user interfaces for a large web monolith and small to moderate micro-frontends and services, maintaining high standards for accessibility, performance, and usability.
• Implementing and optimizing UI components that align with enterprise design systems and technical standards.
• Lead applications through the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) — from requirements gathering and system design to deployment and maintenance.
• Ensure high-quality releases through continuous integration, code reviews, and automated testing.

Skills

React

Node.js

SDLC

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Elsevier is seeking an experienced full stack developer (React + Node) to join a healthcare mission-driven team. The role focuses on building frontend features for a flagship clinical product used by physicians and researchers worldwide.

You will collaborate with Product, UX designers, and engineers to design, implement, and maintain complex web applications, ensuring accessibility, performance, and scalability across monoliths and micro-frontends.