Software Engineer III (Java & JavaScript)

You will join the Identity & Access Management team, which owns the authentication and authorisation infrastructure underpinning Elsevier’s global product suite.

We build and operate a highly available identity platform that integrates with multiple identity providers, entitlement services, and downstream APIs, running on AWS ECS and EKS.

This position performs moderately difficult research, design, and software development assignments within a specific software functional area or product line. The candidate should have the ability to work on individual pieces of work and solve problems, including the design of the program flow of individual pieces of code, effective coding, and unit testing.

The ideal candidate has a practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines and a strong commitment to code quality, testing, and collaborating in an Agile environment. Fluency with GitHub workflows and pull-request-based collaboration is essential.

Our teams are increasingly adopting AI-assisted development workflows, and we are particularly interested in engineers who are excited about using AI tools to help design, write, evaluate, and improve software.

Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Codex, for test authoring, stub generation, coverage analysis, or test-output investigation.

Experience treating AI-assisted tools as productivity accelerators within a quality engineering workflow while maintaining appropriate review and validation practices.

Experience with Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool, including the ability to read infrastructure definitions and understand how configuration changes affect system behaviour and test coverage.

Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave

Personal Choice budget

Internal communities and networks

Various employee discounts

Recruitment introduction reward

Employee Assistance Program (global)

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