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About the Role
The Shared Graph Team is a core part of Elsevier’s Search and AI Platform. This team builds structured queries based on relationships and entity metadata hydration, enabling advanced traversal, discovery, and recommendation systems. As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will work with a passionate team that delivers scalable, reliable, and innovative solutions that accelerate scientific discovery.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement graph-based search services.
- Develop applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring, GraphQL, and GraphQL Federation.
- Integrate with databases, web services, or AWS services (Neo4j, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Parameter Store, SQS, SNS, Kinesis) to support ingestion, storage, and messaging pipelines.
- Champion clean code, SOLID principles, and engineering best practices, setting standards and mentoring engineers.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to deliver advanced search and recommendation features.
- Ensure robust monitoring and logging with New Relic and Coralogix, driving reliability and performance.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems or search platforms.
- Proven track record building scalable backend systems and APIs.
- Strong expertise in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL API/REST APIs design.
- Solid background in cloud-native architectures with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).
- An advocate of best practices for rapid development of quality software, including SOLID principles, clean code, architectural design patterns, CI/CD.
- Familiarity with Agile, Kanban, or other iterative development methodologies.
- Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job.
- An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers.
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring
- GraphQL
- GraphQL Federation
- Neo4j
- DynamoDB
- RDS
- S3
- Parameter Store
- SQS
- SNS
- Kinesis
- New Relic
- Coralogix
- REST APIs
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- SOLID principles
- Clean code
- Architectural design patterns
- CI/CD
- Agile
- Kanban
- Apollo Router
Location
- NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg)
Work Type
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- €86,900 - €144,600
Benefits
- Comprehensive Pension Plan
- Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
- Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
- Flexible working hours
- Personal Choice budget
- Internal communities and networks
- Various employee discounts
- Recruitment introduction reward
- Employee Assistance Program (global)
About the Company
- 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.
- RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
- Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
- Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company.
- Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.