Senior Software Engineer II

Job Description

Are you ready to design and build scalable cloud-native applications that support innovative healthcare solutions used around the world?

Do you enjoy mentoring engineers, solving complex technical challenges, and driving engineering excellence in a collaborative global environment?

About our Team:

Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for our customers across global health. We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and support a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer II , you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions that power our healthcare products and platforms. You will work across cloud-native architectures, modern development frameworks, and distributed systems while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. In addition to contributing hands-on technical expertise, you will mentor junior engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help drive innovation through modern software development methodologies and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities:

Interface with other technical personnel and team members to refine and finalize requirements for complex software solutions.

Write and review detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable applications and services using modern software engineering practices.

Complete and troubleshoot complex bug fixes while ensuring application reliability and performance.

Collaborate closely with development teams, architects, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Implement and promote development processes, coding standards, code reviews, and software engineering best practices.

Operate effectively in various development environments, including Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Design and work with complex data models, ensuring data integrity, scalability, and performance.

Resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems and cloud-based environments.

Mentor and train less-experienced software engineers, supporting their technical growth and development.

Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and software development innovations.

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across architecture, development practices, and engineering processes.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

7+ years of Software Engineering experience.

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience required.

Advanced proficiency in Java (Spring Boot ), JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React )

Deep experience designing and maintaining microservices architectures.

Strong experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes/EKS.

Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services, including ECS/Fargate, EKS, S3, Lambda, and RDS.

Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Strong understanding of cloud architecture tradeoffs, scalability, performance optimization, and cost management.

Advanced experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.

Strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including trunk-based development, automated deployments, and progressive delivery.

Experience with API Gateway technologies and authentication/authorization frameworks such as OAuth, JWT, Kong, or Keycloak.

Advanced knowledge of observability and monitoring solutions including New Relic, Coralogix, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling principles, and query optimization techniques.

Experience implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices and maintaining automated quality gates.

Working knowledge of event-driven and streaming architectures such as Kafka.

Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar technologies.

Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work effectively with internal and external technology resources.

Ability to write and review detailed technical specifications for complex systems.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Work in a Way That Works for You:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.

This is a hybrid role. Our teams operate in a flexible hybrid work model, combining in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. You'll be expected to participate in regular team meetings and engineering rituals in line with your team's cadence.

Working Pattern:

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.

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Private Medical/Dental Plan

Savings Fund

Life Insurance

Meal/Grocery Voucher

About the Business:

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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