Software Engineer (Nodejs & Reactjs)

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:

Wiley's Research Technology team builds ReX Review & Screening, the platform supporting research-integrity screening and peer review for Wiley journals worldwide. Every day, authors, editors, and reviewers use the platform to move manuscripts from submission through screening, reviewer invitation, review reports, and editorial decisions.

As a Software Engineer (P2), you will design, build, and operate multi-tenant services and web applications across the platform. Working with moderate guidance alongside senior engineers, architects, QA engineers, and product partners, you will own features end to end, from design and development through testing, release, and production support.

How You Will Make an Impact

Product & Feature Development

• Build and evolve features across the manuscript lifecycle, including editor and reviewer assignment, invitations, review reports, editorial decisions, manuscript versioning, and screening checks.
• Develop backend services and APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Contribute to React web applications used by editors, reviewers, and authors.
• Take ownership of features throughout the development lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing, release, and production support.

Distributed & Event-Driven Systems

• Build and maintain event-driven integrations using AWS SNS/SQS and Kafka.
• Design multi-tenant features with appropriate tenant scoping, data isolation, and configuration across tenants and journals.
• Contribute to scalable and resilient services capable of supporting Wiley's global publishing workflows.

Data & Platform

• Model data and write efficient queries in PostgreSQL, including schema migrations, indexing, and performance tuning for dashboards and search.
• Work with containerized services running on Kubernetes in AWS.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Work with identity and access management solutions, including Keycloak and Wiley Connect.

Quality & Reliability

• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end automated tests to support reliable software delivery.
• Follow established engineering standards, code review practices, and clean code principles.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues.
• Participate in support rotations and contribute to improving platform observability, resilience, and reliability.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies, including planning, refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Help estimate, break down, and plan development work.
• Work closely with Product Owners, architects, QA engineers, and stakeholders across Wiley's end-to-end publishing program to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Communicate effectively across distributed and cross-functional teams.

Growth & Technical Impact

• Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture decisions.
• Help identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve engineering practices.
• Continue developing your technical knowledge across relevant technologies, including AI-assisted development and screening tools.
• Share knowledge, ideas, and engineering best practices with the wider team.

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js skills.
• Experience with React is advantageous.
• Experience designing or building RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience working with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
• Understanding of messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of design patterns, dependency injection, and clean code principles.
• Experience writing automated tests.
• Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work effectively within distributed, cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or supporting multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience with Keycloak, OAuth, or OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Experience within scholarly publishing, peer review, research integrity, or related domains.

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. 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.