Senior Software Engineer II

Description

You will build cloud-native applications for healthcare technology, working with cross-functional teams to create new solutions while growing your technical skills.

The NPRE team sits in the company's publishing technology organisation and is reworking peer review. It builds tools for researchers, reviewers and editors across submission and review, improving how science gets published.

Agile teams here deliver the technology that lets researchers take their work to trusted journals through peer review.

You will help build features that let scientists submit research and review each other's work. The platform keeps changing with researcher needs and new technology, including AI.

The company is a global information and analytics business serving researchers and healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy applications in a distributed, cloud-hosted system for the next generation of the product.
• Work with business stakeholders to pin down requirements and gather feedback in a fast-changing environment.
• Shape architecture decisions with a focus on stability and performance.
• Find and roll out improvements to how the team delivers work.
• Work alongside cross-functional Agile and DevOps implementation teams.

Requirements

• Have some proficiency in most of: JavaScript or TypeScript, a frontend framework, Java with Spring Boot, and SQL, and be willing to learn the rest.
• Have some experience with build tools, Git and continuous integration.
• Enjoy working with team members to find creative solutions.
• Have experience supporting and mentoring colleagues so they can share knowledge and build their skills.
• Have experience with alerting, monitoring and logging tools.
• Be comfortable in a modern IDE and make good use of its refactoring tools.
• Be open to discussing and refining how the team works.
• Have experience with test-driven development and mocking libraries.
• Have hands-on experience running Agile practices day to day.
• Be able to design and develop for cloud environments, such as Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Be familiar with AI coding tools, such as Copilot, Claude, Codex and Antigravity.
• Have some exposure to DevOps and infrastructure as code.
• Champion industry best practices and standards.
• Keep learning and growing your skills and experience.
• Desired: some experience with agentic software development.

Conditions

Flexible working hours: you can shift when you work during the day to fit everything in and work when you are most productive.

The company is committed to a fair and accessible hiring process, and accommodation needs can be raised during hiring.

Benefits

• Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals.
• Support to balance your immediate responsibilities with your long-term goals.
• Benefits vary by country, so check the ones for your location.