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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
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- SOLID principles
- Clean code
- Architectural design patterns
- CI/CD
- Agile
- Kanban
- Apollo Router
- Data modelling for graph-based systems
- Search platforms
- AI-driven discovery systems
Location
- NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg)
Work Type
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
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.
- Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare.
- We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all.
- We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence.
- By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission-critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most.
- We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals.
- We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation.
- We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities.
- We help innovators turn knowledge into new products.
- We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses.
- Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster.
- And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all.
- With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world.
- We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs.
- If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier.
- Elsevier is part of RELX Group.
- Let’s shape progress together.
- Join us.
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