Software Engineer III - Search and AI Platform

Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. Our technology helps shape human progress. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, join us and grow every day.

The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier’s agentic data platform powering products such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, and our next-generation LLM-powered research systems. The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our collection of research data to deliver insights to the scientific community so they can collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and deliver quality research more quickly.

We are seeking an innovative, passionate Software Engineer III to join our AI Content team. You will help build and maintain scalable pipelines to ingest content into a centralized storage system, develop a scalable content enrichment and retrieval system, and create pipelines to load content search indexes. These systems are in early-stage implementation, and this team has the remit to ingest massive amounts of content to support AI-powered products across the organization.

• Design, prototype, and build robust and scalable pipelines, following clean code and best-practice software engineering principles.
• Work with technologies including Python (FastAPI), Java (Spring Boot), Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka, and RDBMS.
• Build cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor services, automating common tasks mercilessly.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and high-quality solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and maintain high standards for software quality.
• Experience with large-scale content management systems and big data is highly valued.

• 3–5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong commercial experience delivering server-side applications.
• Excellent programming skills in Java and Python.
• Advocate for best practices for rapid development of quality software, including clean code, architectural design patterns, and CI/CD.
• Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job to keep pace with a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
• Inclusive, positive, and collaborative mindset with a desire to deliver real business value.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, refine and execute higher-level tasks, and perform detailed code reviews.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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

Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We empower professionals and institutions to realize the potential of information to improve academic, corporate, and clinical performance, expand human knowledge, and generate positive outcomes in critical domains of human endeavor.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We offer country specific benefits determined by location.