Senior Software Engineer - FTC
Role Summary
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher. The Senior Software Engineer contributes to the development and continuous improvement of digital platforms, participating in agile ceremonies and evolving development practices.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Knowledge and 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 maintaining 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.
- Expertise in cloud native architectures.
- Expertise in data pipelines and event-driven architectures preferred.
- Expertise in machine learning and machine learning pipelines preferred.
- Solid foundation in secure coding practices.
- Expertise in 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 maintain an attention to detail. Self-directed and capable of working under minimal supervision.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related academic degrees and/or equivalent experience preferred alongside a strong background in software engineering.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
- Prolonged periods stationary at a desk and working on a computer.
- Some national and international travel may be required.
- Rare but occasional after hours (evening or weekend) work.
Benefits
- US: 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
- Short term and long term disability insurance
- 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
- Comprehensive benefits package including fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office
About PLOS
PLOS continues to be a catalyst in open science, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge. Our work is supported by a highly skilled global in-house team, partnerships with local scholarly organizations, and the valued contributions of a diverse, international community of scientific researchers. We’re committed to equal opportunity. We’re working to create a more equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding. Removing barriers to inclusion and facilitating broad participation of voices is core to our success, inside and out.