Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain modern cloud-native solutions to support the ongoing revolution in open science. This role involves collaborating on a cross-functional product team and ensuring the sustainability and health of the digital platforms.
Responsibilities
- As part of a cross-functional product team, contribute designs, code, tests, code reviews, and excellent judgment towards the development and continuous improvement of our digital platforms
- Participate in agile ceremonies and evolving development practices of the team
- Contribute to the overall platform architecture
- Ensure new work is delivered in alignment with said architecture
- Establish and support development processes
- Provide stewardship of the long-term sustainability of our platform and actively manage platform health and technical debt
Skills
- Significant professional software engineering experience gained in a full stack environment, ideally with experience using Google Cloud, Python, React, Kubernetes, BigQuery, or similar modern technologies
- Hands-on experience developing, shipping, operating, and/or maintain consumer and/or enterprise web applications
- Demonstrated passion for delivering testable, instrumented, and reliable code
- Strong track-record of using and improving agile software development and related design practices
- Deep understanding and experience of at least one server-side language
- Expertise in cloud native architectures
- Solid foundation in secure coding practices
- Solid understanding of client-side technology (CSS/HTML/JS)
- Experience with continuous delivery methods and technologies
- Experience with using data to inform development decisions
- Ability to collaborate with a variety of functions, personalities and cultures
- Ability to actively listen, ask the right questions and see the underlying meaning in what's being said and not said
- Flexible and open minded. Energy and enthusiasm for learning
- Problem solving in multiple domains. Resilient, proactive and creative
- Ability to pick up new techniques and technologies quickly
- Pragmatic while maintaining an attention to detail
- Self-directed and capable of working under minimal supervision
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related academic degrees and/or equivalent experience
- Expertise in data pipelines and event-driven architectures
- Expertise in machine learning and machine learning pipelines
Benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Employee sponsored health, dental and vision insurance (Dental and Vision 100% employer paid)
- Paid Vacation, 11 public holidays and sick leave
- Parental leave
- Birthday and three winter holidays days off
- Short term and long term disability insurance
- 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
- Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Personal accident insurance
- Pension with up to 10% employer match
- 25 days holidays, market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
Company Overview
PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, and is based in California, US. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.plos.org.