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 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.

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.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Bachelors 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.
  

• 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 weve transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today our global team of innovators creators and experts is driving whats next in science education and publishingcreating impact that reaches everywhere.

Were not just observers of progress. Were 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 individuals 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 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.

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