Lead Full‑Stack Engineer – Nodejs & React

Do you enjoy leading engineering teams to build scalable, meaningful products that support scientific discovery and real‑world research impact?

Are you motivated by working on greenfield applications where your technical decisions, leadership, and collaboration directly shape how AI and search solutions are evaluated and improved?

About Us:

Working in technology at Elsevier means that your work really does matter – it changes lives. And you’ll see the real-world impact of your day-to-day efforts.

Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. For more than 140 years, we’ve helped impact makers to advance science and healthcare to advance human progress, and that same mission drives us today.

If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, join us. Let’s shape progress together.

About the Team:

The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier’s agentic data platform powering products such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, and our next-generation LLM-powered research systems. The platform uses agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled collection of research data to deliver insights to the scientific community so they can collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and deliver quality research more quickly.

The SME evaluation squad is building out a web application to scale the evaluation process for Elsevier’s AI and search solutions. This is a greenfield development project that will allow product teams to more quickly evaluate changes and go-to-market with new features.

About the Role

We are seeking a Software Engineering Lead to guide the SME evaluation application team. In this role, you will work closely with product partners, evaluation teams, and platform teams to meet business needs while aligning with organizational standards, architecture, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining, designing, and enhancing evaluation tooling microservices and frontend applications using clean code and established software engineering practices.
• Working with technologies such as Node.js microservices, React, AWS, SQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Collaborating with operations partners to build, operate, and monitor cloud infrastructure in AWS, with a focus on automation and reliability.
• Partnering regularly with business stakeholders to align priorities while adhering to architectural, quality, and security standards.
• Supporting and leading a team of software engineers by providing code reviews, technical guidance, and prioritization in collaboration with product partners to ensure timely delivery of key outcomes.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineering teams, with significant hands-on experience delivering full-stack software in a professional environment. We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet every listed requirement.
• Strong programming experience with Node.js, Java, or Python, along with experience using React or comparable frontend frameworks.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
• A proven approach to building high-quality software through practices such as clean code, thoughtful architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort learning new technologies, tools, and languages as needed.
• A collaborative, inclusive mindset with a focus on delivering meaningful value to customers and partners.
• Willingness to go into the office twice a week in Reforma.

Nice to Have

• Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr, as well as exposure to Kubernetes or large language model–based systems.

Working for you: 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:

• Private Medical/Dental Plan
• Savings Fund
• Life Insurance
• Meal/Grocery Voucher

About the business: 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. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.