Java Developer

Java Developer
Are you ready for the next step in your engineering career?
Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?
 

About our Team
Our global team supports product education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality.

About the Role

We are expanding our team and looking for an experienced full stack developer to join the back-end team behind our ontology and knowledge management platform. This is a unique opportunity to join a small team developing a product with a large user base and high impact for our customers.

We are extremely customer focused and work closely with them to ensure the software we build meets their needs. This often requires some innovative technical solutions and puts as at the forefront of the application of semantic technologies to real-world data problems.

At RELX, we are committed to advancing gender diversity within the technology sector and supporting greater representation of women in tech. To further this commitment, RELX has implemented the following initiatives:

• Women in Technology (WiT) Mentoring Program: This program is tailored to enhance career development for female talent in tech roles across all our businesses.

• Women’s Network Forum: We offer dedicated forums that foster community, mentorship, and professional growth for women.

• Inspiring Future Talent: We actively engage with schools, hosting events to inspire young females to consider and pursue careers in technology.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with other Development team members to understand product requirements and translate them into software designs

• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components

• Developing and maintaining the existing user interface and back-end systems

• Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews

• Resolving technical issues as necessary

• Completing bug fixes and resolving technical issues

Requirements

• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Solid Software development experience

• Proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework. Experience with Hibernate/JPA, Gradle, Docker is also desirable

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, Typescript, some experience of React and Vue.js is also desirable)

• Experience of using RESTful web services, consuming common forms of data such as JSON

• The ability to design and build unit-tested, modular code and deploy and run it on local and cloud infrastructure

• Understanding of Agile software development process and unit testing and understanding of SOLID and Clean Coding principles

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 for you

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:
 

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

• Wellbeing programs

• Life assurance

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Dental Insurance

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About us

Elsevier is 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.

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