Principal Front-End Engineer
Locations: Oxford or London, the UK; Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Would you like to part of a machine learning project that advances science globally?
Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to deliver improvements that make a difference?
About our Team
Our Web Presence team are rebuilding elsevier.com from the ground-up, we look after the core content delivery, journeys and platform. We collaborate with multiple business units to help them support the various personas and customers using our websites. We ship numerous applications multiple times a day, employing a continuous deployment strategy, utilising mono-repos, automated tests and monitoring.
About the Role
You will develop a best-in-class platform for serving product and content to millions of users every month. You’ll oversee front-end delivery through managing and maintaining our design systems and working with developers to ensure best-practice and accessibility. You will collaborate with our UX teams and business to advise on designs that will put customers first.
Responsibilities
• Working collaboratively in an agile product delivery team and having discussions on project planning with stakeholders to align business objectives
• Improving our code, processes and team performance by promoting industry best-practices and learning new technologies to encourage continuous improvement
• Design system stewardship
• Overseeing feature delivery and overall platform direction and health
• Implementing new features, refactoring and maintaining existing software to develop a best-in-breed, inner-sourced platform for serving products and content
Requirements
• Have Software Engineering background and experience using JavaScript or Typescript
• Demonstrate experience in web development
• Have excellent written, verbal and presentation skills and can explain complex technical content to a range of audiences
• Enjoy collaborating with UX engineers to deliver successful projects and solve problems through innovation
• Be able to mentor software developers on front-end and general software development techniques
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.
• Working remotely from home or in our office in a hybrid style
• Working flexible hours – flexing the times you work in the day
Working with us
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.
Working for you
At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work
About Us
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
Join Us
Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.
Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact accommodations@relx.com or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.
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