Are you an experienced developer with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others?

Are you interested in pursuing a career in software that delivers real utility to the scientific publishing community?

About our Team

The Researchfish development team has been working on the development of the Researchfish platform for over 12 years. The platform is built on-top of both legacy PHP software as well as a number of different and exciting technologies including Go, modern JS and Laravel.

About the Role

We are looking for someone who can perform moderately difficult research, design, and software development assignments within a specific software functional area or product line, You will be contributing to the regular sprint and the agile ceremonies associated with it, as well as giving you the chance to impact on the shape of the development of the platform.

Responsibilities

• Building complex, large-scale, production-grade web apps and APIs. Architect complex features and third party integrations

• Collaborating and communicating with non-technical internal stakeholders. Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences

• Writing clean, well-tested, maintainable code

• Contributing to and directing the efforts of engineering development teams, including internal and external team members to ensure complex/advanced product features/issues are resolved according to SLA’s

• Participating in code reviews and ship code on a daily basis. Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation

Requirements

• Have extensive web application development experience in an enterprise of consumer software development environment

• Demonstrate experience in PHP/Go in a component based architecture. Experience integrating with back-end APIs via REST

• Experience with version control, preferably Git and have a good understanding of Github

• Have ability to guide technical direction within a cross-functional engineering team

• Demonstrate a technical curiosity by providing an insight in technologies outside of a traditional LAMP stack. Experience contributing to open source projects would be beneficial

• Display familiarity with Docker, Accessibility in web apps and Knowledge of cloud-based web architectures (AWS)

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 for you

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

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

• Wellbeing programs

• Life assurance

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Dental Insurance

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

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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