Senior Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join our new Rowan Patents team at Clarivate. In this role, you will be designing, developing, coding and customizing software applications from product conception to end user interface. You will be responsible for analyzing and understanding customer requirements and preferences, incorporating these into the design and development process.

About you – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer

• 1+ year of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

It would be great if you also had…

• Experience with Ember.js, Electron.js, CKEditor 5, TypeScript, SCSS, Python & Django, Terraform, and .NET

• Intellectual property knowledge, specifically patents

• Experience with the patent lifecycle – disclosing inventions, reviewing patent drafts, responding to office actions, etc

• Experience with Microsoft’s OOXML format

• Knowledge of Microsoft’s OLE format

• Experience with generative AI prompting strategies, ideally when using smaller models

What will you be doing in this role?

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with coding standards

• Review other code to ensure clean, efficient, and maintainable code

• Define architecture of software solution

• Suggest alternative methodologies or techniques to achieving desired results

• Develop and maintain understanding of software development lifecycle and delivery methodology

• Maintain knowledge of technical advances and evaluates new hardware/software for company use

• Automate tests and unit tests all assigned applications

• Participates as a team member on various engineering projects and may lead small projects

• Implements software for specifications of high complexity for limited scale systems, or medium to high complexity for large-scale systems.

• Implement design changes to improve quality, performance, cost reduction, and standardization through analysis of designs and problem-solving techniques.

• Respond to direct or indirect customer inquiries regarding function and design and attends customer meetings.

• Design and implement alternative methodologies or techniques to achieving desired results.

• Provide guidance for new procedures as needed for the continuing development of high quality systems

• Provide technical training to other team members

• Participate in the creation, implementation and administration of departmental policies, procedures, and work instructions

• Writes application technical documentation

About the Team

Rowan Patents, a part of Clarivate, joined the company in 2024. Prior to the acquisition, the core engineering team worked together for 10 years as a startup. Rowan Patents focuses on AI-enabled solutions designed for patent preparation and prosecution, specially designed for patent practitioners to establish and protect patents more effectively. This enables Clarivate to extend its workflow automation solutions beyond its market-leading IP management and intelligence capabilities, delivering new solutions to support patent preparation, filing and prosecution.

Hours of Work

• This is a full-time position, primarily working core business hours in PST, with flexibility to adjust to various global time zones as needed.   

• This is a hybrid role working 1-2 days a week in our Seattle, Washington office

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Clarivate is an Equal Opportunity Employer Vets/Minorities/Women/Disabled