Software Engineer

JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of video solutions with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including such leaders as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company, with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented and ambitious individuals to join our company.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications and modernizing our application stack. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces.
• Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
• Adhere to JoVE’s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms.
• Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends.
• Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase
• Explain and “whiteboard” complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience with frontend technologies - React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS.
• Highly proficient with JavaScript and its modern ES6+ syntax and features
• Strong experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs
• Advanced skills in HTML5 and CSS3 (i.e., Flexbox/CSS Grid, Templating engines, CSS preprocessing)
• Familiarity with automated JavaScript testing, specifically testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.
• Experience with working with Tailwind CSS is a plus.
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git
• Hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development
• Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally)
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools
• Knowledge of PHP (Laravel, Symfony, etc.) is a plus.
• Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.

Why Join JoVE?

• A competitive compensation package.
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education.
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.