Senior Software Developer

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Role – Senior Software Developer

Location - Pune

About Us

We are looking for skilled and passionate software developers to help us build the best products that enable the research community to advance the progress and understanding of science.

We need a senior software developer to work on the team responsible for evolving a cross-platform view (Data-as-a-Product) of our submission data. This is driving workflow management, customer experience and business reporting in up to 30 teams. Working closely with data scientists and data engineers to build the infrastructure, APIs, and application integrations needed to leverage this in our platforms.

We strive to continually improve user journeys; allowing customers to discover, access, and consume content in a way that suits them. Our customer-centric approach is fundamental to the way we work.  

We also work closely with partners across the organisation to evolve our content and business models; keeping us competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

You will be joining a cross functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. All team members collaborate to deliver solutions that best satisfy the needs of researchers and other readers.

About Role

We’re looking for a proactive senior software developer with several years of experience who can help us build a new integrity foundation of our content architecture to enable managing integrity threats and risks to research efficiently.

We offer a mixed remote/office working with up to four days per week working from home. You'll be part of our bigger community of developers located in Portugal, Germany, UK and India.

Visit sndigital.springernature.com to learn more about who we are and what we do.

Role Responsibilities

As part of an Agile product team, day-to-day you will:

• Take part in our daily stand-ups.
• Contribute to ceremonies like planning, story writing, collaborative design and retrospectives.
• Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members, as well as working independently.
• Take part in support and monitoring of our websites.

What you will be doing

Within 3 Months you will:

• Get familiar with our technology stack. All our new applications are built in Kotlin using http4k. Our applications are deployed to CloudFoundry using Concourse. Data layer uses dbt (Data Build Tool) and Google BigQuery.

• Take part in developing new features as a member of the tech team.
• Get familiar with, and take part in, the team’s agile processes and ceremonies.
• Coach junior members of the team.
• Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications.

By 3-6 months you will:

• Be a supportive member of the tech team, understanding our end-to-end, developing our infrastructure, including non-functional requirements, and working closely with our technology and Production partners.
• Have an understanding of the team’s context within the publishing business they are working in.
• Lead technical discussions with the team in order to improve the product architecture and code quality.
• Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Owners.
• Contribute to blameless post-mortems.
• Take part in the recruiting process, helping to assess applicants across SND.

By 6-12 months you will:

• Onboard new members to the team or help other teams on the onboarding process.
• Transform high level requirements into actionable work.
• Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to team members.
• Become an advocate for defining and implementing non-functional requirements.
• Influence the design of the system architecture.
• Be able to explain and visualise the benefits and trade-offs of proposed solutions.
• Understand our customers’ needs, both internal and external, and how your work affects their experience.

About You

• You have several years of experience developing software in Java, Kotlin, or Scala. 
• You enjoy mentoring less experienced developers.
• You like working in a collaborative team, where there is collective ownership of the product.
• You enjoy getting involved with every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• You would enjoy working in a Test Driven environment and understand the benefits.
• You would enjoy pair programming and working in a trunk-based development environment; practising Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• You see the value in developers owning production software and view failure as a chance to learn.
• You believe in and can articulate our company strategy on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and you want to make Springer Nature Digital a more inclusive environment for everyone

We value and celebrate the diversity of our people. We recognise the many benefits of a diverse workforce and strive for an inclusive workplace that empowers all our colleagues to thrive. Our search for the best talent fully encompasses and embraces these values and principles. 

Working at the heart of a changing industry, we are always looking for great people who care about delivering quality to our customers and the communities we work alongside. In return, we provide opportunities to learn from some of the best in the business, with a culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts.

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