Software Engineer II

RELX; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Do you enjoy being part of a 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 Company

Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We facilitate insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. From Elsevier’s Technology function, the Research Products team collaborates across the business to drive impact. By applying customer centricity, product and data best practices, and a passion for excellence, we deliver world-class customer solutions.

About the role

As a Software Engineer II, you will implement new features, fix bugs, and actively contribute to team processes. You will be coding in Java and building Kafka-based microservices, as well as contributing to improvements in our infrastructure, monitoring and alerting, and documentation. You will play an active role in team iterations over our ways of working and Agile best practices.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to translate product requirements into technical specifications
• Implement moderately complex technical specifications
• Investigate bugs and work with the team to implement fixes
• Active participation in all team processes

Requirements

• A few years of development experience with Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• An understanding of software development methodologies such as Agile and Kanban
• A capacity and eagerness to learn
• Great communication skills

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 remotely, 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
• Wellbeing programs
• 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.