React Job: Software Engineer

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Company

Clarivate
United Kingdom

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

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(remote role available within Europe)
Join the technology team that supports Clarivate’s Alexander Street product platforms and publishing systems. Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research. We’re passionate about creating landmark online resources that help scholars and students discover and learn.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Alexander Street Technology Team. This is an amazing opportunity to work on customer facing web applications and product platforms that support Clarivate’s Alexander Street multi-media products. The team consists of 20 people and is reporting to the Director of Technology. We have a great skill set in digital content publishing and we would love to speak with you if you have skills in working with Drupal and PHP.
About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
  • At least 2 years of software development experience.
  • Experience using the latest versions of Drupal.
  • At least 2 years of experience programming in PHP.
  • Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git.
  • At a minimum, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar Engineering or Science discipline.
It would be great if you also had . . .
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Experience with Cloud architectures and services, AWS ideally.
  • Understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
  • Good understanding of JavaScript, and advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, etc.
  • Knowledge of SQL, and familiarity with mySQL databases
  • Preferred experience with HTML5 video players
  • Understanding of digital content publishing workflows.
What will you be doing in this role?
  • Developing and maintaining customer facing Drupal applications and systems that provide content and research tools to Alexander Street customers and provide administrative tools for customers to manage their products.
  • Will be integral part of project teams in initiatives to enhance the Alexander Street product platforms, applications and systems.
  • Collaborate with other technology teams on development projects, working with Scrum Masters and Leads on cross-team initiatives, coordinate testing with QA team, and deployments with Infrastructure and Deployment team.
Product you will be developing
Alexander Street product platforms provide multi-media content to academic institutions for research and learning. The Administrative Portal allows customer administrator to manage their products, view usage and engagement statistics.
The applications and systems involve a variety of technologies including Drupal and PHP, and mySQL databases.
About the Team
In working primarily on the customer facing Drupal applications, this team is providing direct support to the product management and platform teams. As part of the larger organization, this team also works closely with the development team that is responsible for the Alexander Street content management systems as well as other teams that utilize Alexander Street content and data.
Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. The other part of the technology organization is geographically distributed and work remotely, and generally work core hours. With this position, it is expected to work core hours locally, with overlap with the US team in the AM. We also ask for team members to be available for deployments, occasionally scheduled in the early mornings, 7AM EDT.
What we can offer you:
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Pension Plan contribution rates
  • Sports Club Subsidy (Company pay 50% of gym membership, or up to £500)
  • Eyecare vouchers
  • A modern culture environment combined with all the financial and stability advantages of working for a large business
  • Active volunteering community, with 40 annual paid hours of volunteering time
  • Global and dynamic employee base (more than 20 nationalities)
At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.