Senior Software Engineer – Search and AI Platform

Senior Software Engineer I – Search and AI Platform

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance data-driven applications? Do you enjoy turning complex datasets into robust, reliable systems that deliver real business impact?

The Search and AI Platform is the company’s agentic data platform, which powers products such as Leap Space, Scopus, Science Direct, Clinical Key, Reaxys, and our next‑generation AI powered search systems. The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled 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 looking for an innovative, passionate Senior Software Engineer II to work as part of the teams building and enhancing our platform to deliver intelligent, scalable solutions that create real value for our clients.

The Shared Graph Team is a core part of the company’s Search and AI Platform. This team builds structured queries based on relationships and entity metadata hydration, enabling advanced traversal, discovery, and recommendation systems. As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will work with a passionate team that delivers scalable, reliable, and innovative solutions that accelerate scientific discovery.

• Design and implement graph‑based search services.
• Develop applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring, Graph
  
  QL, and Graph
  
  QL Federation.
• Integrate with databases, web services, or AWS services (Neo4j, Dynamo
  
  DB, RDS, S3, Parameter Store, SQS, SNS, Kinesis) to support ingestion, storage, and messaging pipelines.
• Champion clean code, SOLID principles, and engineering best practices, setting standards and mentoring engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to deliver advanced search and recommendation features.
• Ensure robust monitoring and logging with New Relic and Coralogix, driving reliability and performance.

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems or search platforms.
• Proven track record building scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Strong expertise in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Hands‑on experience with Graph
  
  QL API/REST APIs design.
• Solid background in cloud‑native architectures with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).
• An advocate of best practices for rapid development of quality software, including SOLID principles, clean code, architectural design patterns, CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Agile, Kanban, or other iterative development methodologies.
• Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job, to ensure that the product is not left behind in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
• An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers.

• Experience with Apollo Router or advanced Graph
  
  QL federation strategies.
• Background in data modelling for graph‑based systems.
• Familiarity with search platforms or AI‑driven discovery systems.
• Experience working in high‑throughput, distributed systems.

• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives and shared parental leave, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals. We also provide flexible working hours.

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…