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Here your curiosity fuels progress your voice shapes innovation and your ambition helps redefine whats possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact challenges and drives whats next to power infinite possibilities for our customers colleagues and society at large.\nAbout the Role:\nWiley is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Amman working on the platform behind many of the worlds largest scientific publishers.\n\nYou will work primarily on the administrative applications that publishers and internal teams use to configure and manage their sites and across the wider backend platform that powers them. This is a mature multi-tenant Java system serving hundreds of publishers with different configurations and requirements so the work spans backend services data and the interfaces built on top of them.\n\nHow You Will Make an Impact:\nDesign develop and maintain backend services and the features built on top of them.\nModernize established modules onto a current frontend architecture while preserving the behavior customers depend on.\nOwn features end to end from data model and API design through to the interface.\nContribute to architectural discussions technical design reviews and code reviews.\nTroubleshoot and resolve issues across development testing and production environments driving them to root cause.\nImprove software quality through automated testing refactoring and management of technical debt.\nCollaborate with engineers product management and QA across multiple regions and time zones.\n\nWhat We Look For:\nBachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.\n5 years of professional experience developing applications in Java with a strong understanding of object-oriented design data structures and software design patterns.\nHands-on experience with the Spring framework.\nExperience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.\nSolid understanding of relational databases and SQL.\nExperience writing unit and integration tests using frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.\nHands-on experience with Git and Linux-based environments.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively in established codebases with limited documentation.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on quality.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills in English.\nAbility to work effectively both independently and as part of a distributed team.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nProfessional experience building user interfaces with React.\nExperience with XML technologies such as XSLT and XQuery or with template engines.\nExperience with server-side Java UI frameworks or with servlet and JSP based applications.\nExperience migrating a legacy web application to a modern JavaScript framework.\nExperience with multi-tenant systems where behavior is driven by per-customer configuration.\nExperience with messaging or event-driven architectures such as JMS or Kafka.\nExperience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.\nWe power infinite possibilities.\nFor more than 200 years weve transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. 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