Principal Software Engineer

💰 ₹50,400 - ₹80,640 (Est.) 📍 Chennai

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer-Search

Are you an experienced Software Engineer with experience in building and maintaining search platform.

If yes, come join us build new research products in the Elsevier Knowledge Discovery Platform.

About our Team

The search team, central to the Knowledge Discovery Group, has a bold mission of enabling researchers quickly find relevant content, collaborators, funding opportunities and related information. This will help advance scientific knowledge in their areas of research.

About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will support a team of passionate engineers in development of our Shared Search Platform. You will own robust highly scalable discovery experiences atop our vast research data.

Responsibilities

·Being a solutions architect leading the design and implementation of complex product requirements for researcher products.

·Being a core individual contributor with ownership of various services & components using technologies such as Elastic Search and Neo4j.

·Working closely with data scientists to deploy NLP, ML & Search models at scale to serve our very high throughput research products.

·Working with JVM-based cutting-edge technologies such as Kafka, Elastic Search, Neo4j, Java, Scala, Spark, GraphQL.

·Making consistently high-quality individual code contributions, adhering to best practices / patterns, and conducting code reviews.

·Mentoring, coaching, and helping develop less experienced team members

Requirements

·4+ years of commercial Information Retrieval or Search experience with tools such as Lucene, Solr or ElasticSearch

·10+ years of commercial software development with experience developing software in JVM languages

·Experience in architecturalleadership in the design and implementation of complex solutions

·Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code for managing cloud applications.

·Have interest in learning new technologies tools on the job, trends in search & information retrieval.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of + years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

·Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

·Group Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)

·Group Life insurance/accident policy

·Generous long-service awards

·New Baby gift

·Subsidised food provided (applies to India- Chennai)

·Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave

·Free Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)

Working for you

About Us

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.

Join Us

Purposeful Work
When you work with us, your work matters. You are part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.

Growing Every Day
Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your career and personal development.

Colleagues Who Care
You will be part of the Elsevier family. We will support your well-being and provide the flexibility you need to thrive at work and home.

Together, we create possibilities.
Join us

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Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.

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