Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing solutions with Python and Django for a Fintech platform. Collaborating with teams to ensure quality and scalability while managing large datasets.
About the role
- Software Engineering Lead providing technical leadership for the AI Platform at Elsevier. Guiding design and delivery of shared AI services while mentoring engineers in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and implementation of shared AI services and components
- Drive the delivery of platform initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs, primarily in Python (with some Java)
- Translate architecture into clear implementation plans and iterative delivery approaches
- Partner with cross-functional teams to turn AI prototypes into production-ready capabilities
- Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability
- Provide constructive design and code reviews
- Mentor and support engineers through pairing, coaching, and feedback
- Contribute to deployment and operational stability of AI services in a Kubernetes (EKS) environment
- Identify and address technical risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks
- Ensure smooth integration of AI Platform services across the broader product ecosystem
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience serving as a technical lead for complex backend or platform systems
- Strong proficiency in Python; familiarity with Java
- Solid backend fundamentals: API design, data modelling, distributed systems, and concurrency
- Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems and working with modern AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and cloud-native development
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with technical leadership
- Experience working in Agile or Kanban environments
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to diverse audiences
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
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