Senior Software Engineer

Silverchair is the premier independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, dedicated to expanding the reach of the world’s most valuable knowledge. By connecting creators, publishers, and users, we amplify the impact of scholarship and enhance the accessibility of critical information. Our global teams build, maintain, and innovate platforms across the publishing lifecycle, facilitating submission, peer review, hosting, dissemination, and impact measurement.

The Silverchair Platform hosts critical research content from such prestigious publishers as Oxford University Press, the American Medical Association, and McGraw Hill, comprising more than 12 million articles and 97k books. Scholar One Manuscripts is the world's leading scholarly workflow management platform, processing over 3 million manuscripts annually for 9,000+ journal sites and serving 1.1 million monthly active users. Scholar One Conferences streamlines the academic conference lifecycle for 135+ conferences annually, supporting scholarly publishers and associations worldwide.

Silverchair is a remote-first organization with Silverchairians living and working in over ten countries supporting our clients and operations throughout the globe.

At Silverchair, we celebrate and embrace diversity in all its forms. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment from the moment you consider joining our team. We actively encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply, believing that a variety of perspectives and experiences enriches our community, drives innovation, and strengthens our impact.

Equity and inclusion are at the core of our hiring practices, and we strive to build a team that reflects a broad spectrum of cultures, experiences, and viewpoints. We are particularly committed to increasing representation from groups historically underrepresented in technology careers. Your unique experiences and perspectives are not just welcomed but are integral to our collective success. Join us in our mission to create a culture that unites and brings out the best in all of us.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at Silverchair.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of tools for researchers and publishers. You'll work on external-facing products that serve scholarly content at scale — the search, discovery, and peer review systems that thousands of researchers depend on every day.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll design and build the backend services, data pipelines, and search infrastructure that need to be fast, reliable, and correct. Some of what we're building leans on AI and machine learning, and you'll have room to work on that if it interests you — but we're hiring for engineering fundamentals first.

Scientific research drives human progress — but only if it can be found, trusted, and used. The systems that connect researchers to knowledge matter enormously.

The platform you'll work on directly enables:

• Research discovery: Tools that help researchers find relevant work faster, surface unexpected connections, and stay current in rapidly evolving fields
• Research integrity: Systems that support rigorous peer review and help maintain trust in the scientific record
• Access and equity: Making scholarly content more accessible and usable for researchers everywhere

We're remote-first, engineering-driven, and committed to building software that lasts. If you want your work to matter beyond the next sprint, we'd like to hear from you.

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs that process and serve scholarly content
• Build and maintain data…