Senior Software Engineer I
at RELX
California, California, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 26 May, 2024 | USD 95700 Annual | 01 Mar, 2024 | N/A | Python,Legacy Systems,Design Skills,Aws,Rest,Writing,Java,Json,Javascript | No | No |
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Description:
About Our Team
Our team is responsible for Digital Commons, a best-in-class hosted software solution for institutions wishing to publish, manage and display their research and scholarship on the Web. Our customers include leading academic institutions, research institutes, and government agencies. We help librarians, researchers, scientists, and students make their work globally accessible.
We use Scrum, Kanban and select Extreme Programming practices, including user stories, automated testing, and continuous integration. We use GitHub pull requests and peer-review the code we write. We practice “dual-track agile,” interleaving discovery and prototyping with product development activities. We also play a lot of Codenames.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Digital Commons development squad, you will help transform a monolithic legacy system into a suite of modern Web services and applications. This is not a mere migration exercise, but an opportunity to reimagine and rearchitect our product offering. Apply your creativity, past experiences, and technical chops to help us find opportunities to radically improve workflows and overall user experience and streamline our operations.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating on product ideation, technical approach and solution design
- Researching and evaluating technologies, architectures and design patterns
- Translating product requirements into clear technical designs
- Performing technical “spikes” to explore solutions and reduce uncertainty
- Building Web applications and services, employing clean code and best practices
- Maintaining and improving existing applications
- Optimizing performance and resource use
- Refactoring—your code and others’
- Creating and maintaining automated tests
- Participating in peer code reviews
- Mentoring and training junior developers
- Enacting our agile development process with a commitment to continuous improvement
Requirements
- Be proficient in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred)
- Have server- and client-side Web development skills, with expertise in one or the other
- Have experience with REST, APIs, JSON, JavaScript and React (TypeScript desirable)
- Have some experience migrating legacy systems, e.g., from monolith to services
- Be able to design, create and query a relational database
- Possess strong object-oriented design skills
- Have employed agile methods (e.g., XP, Scrum)
- Have experience deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Have experience writing automated tests (TDD experience desirable)
- Be able to communicate clearly in person and in writing
- Be willing to collaborate with other developers, business stakeholders and customers
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The salary range provided in this posting is the base salary range for California.$95,700.00 - $159,500.00
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Responsibilities:
- Collaborating on product ideation, technical approach and solution design
- Researching and evaluating technologies, architectures and design patterns
- Translating product requirements into clear technical designs
- Performing technical “spikes” to explore solutions and reduce uncertainty
- Building Web applications and services, employing clean code and best practices
- Maintaining and improving existing applications
- Optimizing performance and resource use
- Refactoring—your code and others’
- Creating and maintaining automated tests
- Participating in peer code reviews
- Mentoring and training junior developers
- Enacting our agile development process with a commitment to continuous improvemen
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Computer Software/Engineering
IT Software - System Programming
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
1
California, USA