Senior Software Developer

Boston Research Journals; Somerville, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Research Journals is seeking a Senior Software Developer to own features end to end across our TypeScript stack, including a Next.js public site, a React admin portal, and an Express + PostgreSQL backend on AWS.

You will design, build and maintain capabilities for the public site, Atlas admin tools, and publishing workflows, while ensuring performance and reliability across production systems. Collaboration with editors and operations is central to scoping and delivering increments.

Qualifications

• Production experience with React and Node.js (Next.js and Express).
• Strong relational-database skills with PostgreSQL or a similar system.
• Experience owning features end to end: requirements, implementation, tests, deploy.
• Clear written communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain features across the public website, the Atlas admin portal and the backend API.
• Model publishing workflows into clean data models and APIs.
• Keep production systems healthy: performance, error budgets, backups and deploy pipelines.
• Review code, mentor mid-level colleagues and raise the engineering bar.
• Collaborate with editors and operations staff to scope work and plan increments.

Skills

React

Node.js

Next.js

Express

PostgreSQL

End-to-end ownership

English communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Own and evolve the platforms behind BRJ's publishing operation — our public journal website, the Atlas publishing CRM, and the author-facing submission and review pipeline.

About the Role

Boston Research Journals runs its entire publishing lifecycle — submission, peer review, invoicing, production and global launch — on software we build in-house. As a Senior Software Developer you will own features end to end across our TypeScript stack: a Next.js public website on Cloudflare Workers, a React admin portal, and an Express + PostgreSQL backend on AWS.

What You Will Do

• Design, build and maintain features across the public website, the Atlas admin portal and the backend API.
• Model publishing workflows (submissions, issues, invoicing, notifications) into clean data models and APIs.
• Keep the production systems healthy: performance, error budgets, backups and deploy pipelines.
• Review code, raise the engineering bar and mentor mid-level colleagues.
• Collaborate with editors and operations staff to scope work and cut it into shippable increments.

What We Are Looking For

• Production experience with React and Node.js (Next.js and Express are our daily tools).
• Solid relational-database skills — schema design, migrations and query tuning on PostgreSQL or similar.
• Experience owning features end to end: requirements, implementation, tests, deploy and follow-through.
• Clear written communication in English — we are a distributed, documentation-heavy team.

Nice to Have

• Cloudflare Workers / serverless edge experience.
• AWS (EC2, SES, S3/R2) and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Prior exposure to scholarly publishing, OJS-style systems or CRMs.