Software Engineer III

Job description

Software Engineer III – Search Platform About the role: We’re looking for a Software Engineer III to join the Search Platform team within Elsevier’s Search and AI Platform. This role is ideal for a strong backend engineer who is curious, eager to learn, and excited to work on large-scale, cloud-native systems — including search — even if they haven’t worked in this domain before. You’ll contribute to the core services that power search across products such as Scopus or ScienceDirect, working on backend services, APIs, and platform components. You’ll take ownership of well-defined pieces of work, deliver production-quality code, and grow your expertise through close collaboration with senior and principal engineers. About the team: The Search Platform Team builds and operates the foundational services that enable search across Elsevier products. Our platform supports high-volume, mission-critical workloads and is evolving to support next-generation, AI-augmented discovery experiences. We work in a global, collaborative environment alongside product managers, data scientists, and other platform teams. We value clean engineering, learning, and shared ownership, and we actively support...