Senior Software Engineer - R22595

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Job description

An exciting new job opportunity for a Senior Software Developer to join a global Data Informatics business.

Up to \u00A380,000 + 10% Bonus per year
Permanent
London, UK (Hybrid)

Your new company
Established over 120 years ago as a global publishing business, we have since evolved to be a leading information analytics company. We help professionals and institutions to progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance. We publish over 500,000 articles a year across 2,500 scientific journals along with 40,000 eBooks with total yearly downloads of our content reaching 17 million. We are incredibly proud of the work we do, and you will be joining an organisation that brings real value to its customers. As a global business we have offices across the world with more than 8000 employees and many plans in place for further growth. Right now, we are looking to recruit for a Senior Software Engineer to join our development team and contribute towards the back-end systems that support our product. We're looking for an innovative, passionate engineer who likes solving problems at scale, has a keen eye for automation and efficiency and considers infrastructure just another dimension of software engineering in general.

Your new role
As a Senior Software Engineer you will be building foundational data platform services at the intersection of infrastructure, data processing on AWS and helping to build engineering convenience systems, tooling and libraries. We will aim to automate everything we do to ease convenience for the other teams. You will work in collaboration with the team on new ideas for optimizing both systems and engineering workflows so that experiments are cost-effective and fast. You will work closely with the other engineering teams to identify their pain points and come up with ideas to solve these- we are self-organized and drive things ourselves. Drive and passion are welcome here. You will work across the full stack - from development to infrastructure, we have a varied list and we touch it all. You will be working regularly with Scala, Python and Go on the language side and Terraform for AWS, Jenkins and Spinnaker for CI\/CD, Kafka for streaming, Docker and Kubernetes to run our (and other engineers') services.

What you'll need to succeed
The successful candidate will have designed distributed systems that scale, in the cloud. We use AWS but are happy if you have experience with either GCP or Azure instead. You will have previous experience in at least one of Java or Scala and are interested in picking up Go. You will have packaged software using Docker and it is advantageous if you've used Kubernetes before. You will have experience with CI\/CD and infrastructure as code and you will view DevOps as a mindset, not a role. You will have a passion for creating high quality, testable code, we write and design our own tests. Things we don't test, we measure, and if there are problems we go in, investigate them and fix them. You will enjoy working collaboratively in team settings and be enthusiastic and passionate about your work as a Software Engineer.

What you'll get in return
As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to your success. You will be joining a collaborative, innovative and fun environment where everyone has an important part to play. We promote a healthy work-life balance across the organisation with numerous wellbeing initiatives in place. We offer a generous pension and holiday allowance along with 10 additional days a year to up-skill and learn new technologies, we will even fund any additional training you take on. For more information about our excellent benefits package please get in touch.

What you need to do now
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