Senior Software Engineer I (Java & Python)

Description

The team builds document intelligence features for the company's submission products, which support millions of interactions each year between researchers, editors, reviewers and publishers.

The team combines data science models and LLMs to turn complex, unstructured documents into structured, reliable, reusable data that submission and editorial tools can act on.

This is a senior software engineering role building services for document transformation, metadata extraction, content enrichment and entity recognition across scientific content at scale.

The work sits where software engineering, data engineering and AI meet, on problems involving millions of research documents.

The stack includes AWS, event-driven architecture, microservices, data science and AI/LLM capabilities, aimed at reliable, secure and highly scalable services.

Projects range from automating manual editorial steps to content discovery and new AI-driven features across the submission portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system as part of the next generation of the product.
• Work with business stakeholders to pin down requirements and collect feedback in a quick-moving setting.
• Contribute to architecture decisions that protect stability and performance.
• Find and roll out improvements to how the team delivers work.
• Work alongside cross-functional Agile and DevOps teams.
• Own services end to end: architecture, implementation, deployment, observability, operational support and ongoing improvement.

Requirements

• You need proficiency in some of the listed requirements and should be willing to pick up the rest as needed.
• Some proficiency in most of Python, Java, Spring / Spring Boot and SQL, with willingness to learn the others.
• Proficiency in distributed and event-driven solutions using Kafka and AWS cloud services.
• Experience with build tools, Git and continuous integration such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Enjoy working with teammates to create new solutions.
• Experience supporting and mentoring colleagues so knowledge is shared and skills grow.
• Experience with alerting, monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, OpenSearch / Kibana and Coralogix.
• Comfortable with a modern IDE such as IntelliJ or VSCode and skilled with its refactoring tools.
• Open to discussing and refining how the team works.
• Some experience with test-driven development and mocking libraries such as Jest and Mockito.
• Familiar with collaborative documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiar with data-processing workflows and scalable backend architectures.
• Some real-world Agile practice with Scrum or Kanban.
• Some familiarity designing and developing for cloud environments with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Familiar with AI coding tools such as Copilot, Claude, Codex and antigravity.
• Some agentic software development experience is desired.
• Interest in learning or experience with AI-based solutions.
• Eager to learn and grow your skills and experience.
• Aware of industry best practices and standards.

Conditions

Working hours are flexible, so you can choose when in the day you work.

Benefits vary by country.

The company is committed to a fair and accessible hiring process and will make adjustments for candidates with disabilities or other needs on request.

Benefits

• A full pension plan.
• Generous vacation allowance and the option of sabbatical leave.
• Maternity, paternity, adoption and family care leave, plus shared parental leave.
• A Personal Choice budget.
• Study assistance and wellbeing initiatives.
• Access to in-house communities and networks.
• Employee discounts.
• Payment for introducing a new hire.
• A global employee assistance program.