{"id":3761592,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ithaka-senior-software-engineer-jstor-stewardship","title":"Senior Software Engineer, JSTOR Stewardship","company":{"id":18664,"name":"Ithaka","domain":"ithaka.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/ithaka-s-plus-r","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":97649,"max":122061,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":122061},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vue.js","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T17:37:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T09:12:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services - JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R - enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome barriers to education. In carrying out our mission, as employees we feel a deep responsibility to members of our community and to each other, and we are committed to building and sustaining a culture where everyone can thrive.\nLevel \nDepending on experience and qualifications, ITHAKA is open to considering candidates in the following levels:\nMid-Level, Software Engineer:\nExpected to bring strong technical skills and adaptability, with opportunities to grow into leadership or more autonomous roles.\nFocuses on hands-on contributions and learning through collaboration on challenging projects.\n2 + years of experience\nSenior-level, Senior Software Engineer:\nExpected to lead with a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership of complex initiatives and driving innovation.\nWill mentor junior engineers, contributing to their growth and the team’s overall expertise.\nPlays a key role in shaping strategic goals and optimizing workflows for scalability and impact. \n5+ year of experience\nThe Role\nITHAKA is looking for a Mid/Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus) to join the JSTOR Stewardship team.\nIn this role, you'll build modern, user-centered web applications that help millions of learners, educators, and librarians discover and engage with JSTOR content. While your primary expertise will be frontend engineering, you'll lead complex technical initiatives across multiple features or systems, owning work from discovery and technical design through deployment, experimentation, and production operations.\nYou'll work in a cross-functional product team alongside Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering to solve meaningful user problems, deliver intuitive and accessible experiences, and continuously improve our products through experimentation, analytics, and AI-assisted capabilities. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll combine strong technical execution with product thinking-using user insights, experimentation, and engineering judgment to help shape solutions that deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production-grade web applications.\nDevelop intuitive, performant, reliable, and accessible user interfaces with a strong focus on user experience.\nBuild and integrate APIs and backend services to deliver end-to-end product experiences.\nInstrument applications for analytics, experimentation, and observability that enable data-informed product decisions.\nCollaborate closely with Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering to identify user problems, validate solutions, and iterate based on evidence.\nContribute to technical documentation and design artifacts that help the team share knowledge and communicate architectural decisions.\nUse product, operational, and engineering metrics to evaluate technical decisions and continuously improve product quality and engineering effectiveness.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems.\nOccasional travel, comprising less than 10% of the time, may be necessary, with a primary focus on visits to our Michigan and New York offices.\nAdditional responsibilities for senior level include:\nProvide hands-on technical leadership for complex initiatives, from discovery through production, partnering with Product and Design to balance user needs, business goals, and engineering tradeoffs.\nGuide technical design and architecture decisions within the team’s product area to improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, and developer experience.\nIdentify technical debt, operational risks, and opportunities to improve engineering practices and the long-term health of the team’s systems.\nMentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, pair programming, and day-to-day collaboration.\nExperience and Skills\nYou don't need experience with every technology listed above. We're looking for engineers with strong technical fundamentals, product thinking, sound engineering judgment, and a high degree of ownership. People who are curious, collaborative, enjoy solving meaningful problems, and raise the technical bar for those around them will thrive in this role.\nExperience building production web applications with React, Vue, or a similar framework, using TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS, and component-based architecture.\nStrong frontend skills, including responsive design, accessibility, performance, and maintainable application architecture.\nExperience integrating frontend applications with REST or GraphQL APIs, and the ability to contribute to GraphQL services and AWS Lambda functions using Node.js, Python, or similar technologies.\nExperience with automated testing, production debugging, and monitoring or observability practices.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD and cloud-hosted application deployment workflows.\nExperience with Git-based development, code reviews, and technical documentation.\nAbility to work collaboratively across engineering and with product and design partners, and to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly.\nAbility to use user feedback, product data, or operational metrics to inform engineering decisions and improve user experiences.\nFor the senior-level role, in addition to the qualifications mentioned above, the following experience and skills are required:\nDemonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives from concept through production and operation, including work with ambiguous requirements.\nAbility to guide technical decisions and balance user needs, business priorities, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.\nExperience helping other engineers grow through technical guidance, code review, or mentoring.\nExperience building AI-powered product experiences or integrating LLMs into customer-facing applications is a plus.\nWork Authorization and Sponsorship \nITHAKA is not currently considering candidates who require any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) to work in the United States.\nCompensation and Benefits\nAt ITHAKA we believe in openness and fair pay. Part of living those values is our commitment to clarity about salary ranges, so candidates know what to expect. The starting salary for a mid-level Software Engineer position ranges from $97,649 - $122,061. The starting salary for the Senior Software Engineer position ranges from $112,240 - $140,300 per year. Starting pay may vary with job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At present, our total compensation package for benefits-eligible employees includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer-paid 10% retirement contribution, paid parental and caregiver leave, 22 days of paid time off, 11 paid holidays, up to 12 paid sick days, wellness benefits, and more. Please note that ITHAKA, at its discretion, may make changes to its benefits programs from time to time.\nWork for ITHAKA \nWe are committed to our organizational values of belonging, evidence, speed, teamwork, and trust. We take seriously the need for everyone to feel welcome. Belonging is one of our core values, and it shows in our vibrant culture. People from a wide range of backgrounds work at ITHAKA, and we believe that unique perspectives help us realize new insights and build better solutions.\nWe want to work with people who are passionate about ideas like these and who wish to contribute their perspectives and talents to ITHAKA’s mission. We enthusiastically welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and credentials. We want to hear your story and include your perspective in the transformative work we aim to do.\nLearn more about Working at ITHAKA.\nApply Now\nAlthough ITHAKA has physical offices in New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan, our employees are distributed across the continental United States. At this time, we’re not considering candidates who are unable to work and reside in the continental U.S.\nCandidates may apply by submitting an application online through our career site, if you have any questions about your application, please contact us at . ITHAKA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if there’s anything we can do to accommodate any portion of the application or hiring process, please contact us at .\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to identity or other status protected by law. We invite you to read our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. 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