Do you enjoy leading a team that develops high-quality code?
Are you an experienced developer with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others?
About our Team
Our semantic infrastructure answers business-critical questions in real-time. Pioneering the combination of the latest in machine learning with an ontology-led approach. Our solutions understand the complexity and variability of scientific content, yet are still simple to use. Our platform allows our customers to quickly identify and extract scientific terminology from unstructured text and transform it into valuable machine-readable clean data.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced React Developer to lead the frontend engineering of both our semantic search engine and our flagship Named Entity Recognition (NER) service, TERMite7. This role is a hands-on coding role reporting into the Head of Engineering. You will take ownership over both frontend systems. There will be collaboration with developers on the shared components library, with the UX function on design and with the backend java developers who produce the REST APIs you’ll consume. Primarily this is a remote role with our lean team distributed throughout Europe, with a local hub located on our main campus outside Cambridge
Responsibilities
- Owning the development of user interfaces for both the Search and NER platforms
- Writing extensible, maintainable, secure and well-tested code
- Establishing best practice and guidelines for developing UI components across teams and products
- Applying UX principles to develop user focused, intuitive front-end experience which goes across products
- Assisting product managers, backend engineers and UX in the architecting and building of new features
- Designing and building unit-tested, modular code, deploying and running it on local and cloud infrastructure
Requirements
- Experience of software development delivery across multiple software projects
- Possess expertise in designing, architecting and building UIs using React, TypeScript, SCSS
- Demonstrate confidence working in a dynamic agile environment with backend teams, business stakeholders, and UX designers
- Show understanding of the importance of vulnerability management with excellent communication skills
- Experience with modern authentication flows, such as OAuth 2.0 and ideally Keycloak APIs
- Possess confidence with common practices in CI/CD (Jenkins), source control (GitHub)
- Show high-level understanding of Containerization (with AWS as an added bonus)
- Maintain a ‘can-do’ attitude working across flexible and cross-functional teams in software and data science
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. 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 flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
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.
Working for you
We want to protect your health, help you accumulate wealth and secure your future. We are therefore delighted to offer:
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Tax-free childcare support
- Parental leave options
- Health screening and private medical benefits
- Season ticket loan
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.
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Purposeful Work
When you work with us, your work matters. You are part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.
Growing Every Day
Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your career and personal development.
Colleagues Who Care
You will be part of the Elsevier family. We will support your well-being and provide the flexibility you need to thrive at work and home.
Together, we create possibilities.
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