Information Blurb

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Alexander Street Technology Team in Bangalore. This is an amazing opportunity to work on the Content Management Systems and product platforms that support Clarivate's Alexander Street multi-media products.

Our technology team supports Clarivate's Alexander Street product platforms and publishing systems. Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research. We're passionate about creating landmark online resources that help scholars and students discover and learn.

We have a great skill set in digital content publishing and we would love to speak with you if you have skills in working with open-source technologies, Python and MySQL.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar Engineering or Science discipline.
• Should have 5-8 years of experience in software development.
• At least 4 years of development experience in Python including development framework such as Django.
• At least 3 years of experience working with Relational Databases, preferably mySQL. Proficient in SQL.
• Experience developing REST APIs.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git.

It would be great if you also had . . .
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Knowledge of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies
• Experience with Cloud architectures and services, AWS ideally
• Familiarity with audio and video transcoding
• Experience with XML transformation, XSLT
• Familiarity with search engines, SOLR or ElasticSearch, and with NoSQL databases, such as DynamoDB
• Application development experience with PHP and HTML/JavaScript
• Understanding of digital content publishing workflows

What will you be doing in this role?
• Developing and maintaining the applications and systems that support the workflows of the Content Operations team. This involves the ingestion, indexing, and publishing of digital content (audio, video, text/documents, images) to the Alexander Street product platforms.
• Will be integral part of project teams in designing and developing solutions around product platform enhancements, and in initiatives to enhance the content management applications and systems.
• Directly support the Content Operations team in resolving issues and responding to requests for system changes.
• Collaborate with other technology teams on development projects, working with Scrum Masters and Leads on cross-team initiatives, coordinate testing with QA team, and deployments with Infrastructure and Deployment team.

Product you will be developing

The Content Management systems and applications are used by the Content Operations team to ingest digital content and prepare that content for publishing to one of the Alexander Street product platforms at and The systems support workflows including creating content metadata, indexing content, processing to prepare for publishing (such as transcoding audio/video content, formatting text and transcript files), and loading to the CDN. Metadata is processed and fed to the product platform databases and search engines.

The applications and systems involve a variety of technologies including Python and PHP with mySQL databases. Supporting applications also involve Python with some PHP, HTML/JavaScript.

The content database also interfaces with other systems in providing data to the customer Administration Portal, to the royalty reporting system, and to other content publishers.

Hours of Work

This is permanent position with Clarivate. We have hybrid work model, flexible and employee friendly work environment