Elsevier is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Philadelphia, United States. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Devise and implement key components of the search and discovery platform.
• Draft top-class code that passes rigorous peer review.
• Plan and implement unit tests, functional tests, and regression tests to validate software functionality.
• Complete complex bug fixes.
• Stay abreast of new technology developments; apply those techniques for enhancing the system.
• Utilize machine learning (incl. deep learning) to identify patterns in data.
• Algorithm design and optimization.
• Interface with the product owner(s) and other technical personnel to groom and finalize requirements.
• Continually search methods to enhance code quality and system quality (e.g. automation).

Job Requirements:

• Effective experience in building scalable and high-quality software using Java.
• Proficient experience implementing search solutions with technologies such as SOLR, Elasticsearch, Lucene (desirable).
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced algorithm design and optimization skills.
• Proven track record in data structures and practical application of data structures.
• Sound experience building enterprise applications on a cloud service such as AWS or Azure is desirable.
• Strong coding skills including demonstrated rigor in maintaining high code quality.
• Expert knowledge of performance tuning and scaling a software system.
• Deep knowledge of search engine and recommendation systems.
• Demonstarted understanding and application of machine learning and deep learning techniques (desirable).
• Outstanding skills in source control and collaborative tools such as Git.
• Demonstrated ability to be adaptable and successful in a fast-paced environment.
• Great ability to unit, functional and regression test code to meet high code standards.