Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend)

Job Description:

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

The Senior Software Engineer transforms high-level architecture into detailed technical solutions while building scalable, high-performing applications that enhance customer learning and engagement experiences. Operating across critical areas of the technology stack, this role is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and releasing software solutions that deliver business value and exceptional customer outcomes.

Working independently with minimal guidance, the Senior Software Engineer takes ownership of services, systems, and technical responsibilities, applying a full-stack, full-lifecycle approach to software delivery. This role also provides technical leadership, mentors team members, and contributes to the continuous improvement of engineering practices and technologies.

How You Will Make an Impact

Application Design & Development

• Design, develop, and release scalable applications and systems that improve customer learning and engagement experiences.
• Translate high-level architectural concepts into detailed technical designs that are clearly understood and implemented by development teams.
• Build robust, maintainable software solutions that support business objectives and customer needs.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a technical leader within the engineering team, providing guidance on design decisions, architecture, and development best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, helping to elevate technical capabilities across the team.
• Drive technical excellence through knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous improvement initiatives.

System Ownership & Delivery

• Take ownership of services and systems throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design, build, deploy, monitor, and support solutions in production environments.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement technologies that improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Establish and maintain code repository structures, branching strategies, and development standards.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and champion clean, maintainable, and high-quality code.
• Promote engineering best practices including test-driven development, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Product, Data Engineering, Data Science, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other specialized teams.
• Contribute effectively within multidisciplinary Agile teams to deliver business and customer value.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive innovation by exploring and implementing new tools, technologies, and engineering approaches.
• Lead technical initiatives that improve platform performance, scalability, and customer experience.
• Contribute to strategic technology decisions that support long-term business objectives.

What We Look For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven experience serving as a technical lead or senior engineer within a software engineering team.
• Strong proficiency in C#/.NET development.
• Expert understanding of object-oriented design principles, software architecture, and system design.
• Experience building and consuming web APIs and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience working with cloud-based services and containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or non-relational database technologies.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing and test-driven development (TDD).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within multidisciplinary product and engineering organizations.
• Knowledge of modern cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing applications.
• Track record of successfully leading technical initiatives and driving engineering innovation.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent

We power infinite possibilities.

For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.

We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.

Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies. Wiley proactively displays target base pay range for United Kingdom, Canada and USA based roles.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.