Senior Software Developer

We are on a quest to find a Senior Software Developer - Scala with several years of experience who will help us in extending and maintaining our platform

 You will join a cross functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. The agile team is co-located including the Product Managers

You will collaborate with all team members in order to deliver the best solutions that enhance our platform

About Springer Nature India Pvt. Ltd:

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If you are still wondering, why should you work with us. Here are 5 reasons why?

1. Springer Nature is one of the world's largest publishing company. Nobel laureates publish their research at Springer.
2. We are truly a digital organization and Springer Nature Pune is at the helm of this digitization.
3. We not only believe but preach providing good work life balance to our employees.
4. We are investing in building our products using machine learning and NLP.
5. We work in latest technologies like AWS and Scala.

About the team:

Backend - Adis – PV is a scientific analysis platform being built for extracting content from scientific articles and providing meaningful insights

Insights are then published in a structured way, so that they can be made accessible to end users, via feeds delivery or through the platform

Backend - Adis – PV will be a production system for all databases under one IT landscape and under one umbrella.

Job Type: Permanent    
                                   

Job Location: Magarpatta City, Pune - India  (Work from home until further notice)

Years of Experience 6 to 10 years

What we are looking for

Educational Qualification:

B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc.

Skill Matrix:

Primary Language Skills: Java 8, Scala

Framework: Play Framework

Messaging: Rabbit MQ

Ideologies: TDD / ATDD, Pair Programming

Database: SQL and NoSQL

Challenges

• You will help us continuously improving our platform
• Together we will create best in class services that support the needs of our customers
• Taking part of team ceremonies like grooming, planning and retrospective
• Develop new features
• Improve code quality by doing pair programming or code reviews
• Continuously improve and monitor our product
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Own and consistently deliver high quality end-to-end product features keeping in view technical & business expectations
• Add meaty features to the product which will deliver substantial business value
• Pioneer clean coding and continuous code refactoring
• Understands and appreciates existing design and architecture of the product
• Understands pros and cons of various technology options available
• Takes technical ownership of some of sub-systems of the product
• Makes changes in the product designs to achieve required business value / mileage
• Identify and addresses technical debts
• Understands technical vision and road-map of the product and expectations
• Understands purview of key pieces of deliverables and own few of these pieces

Day at work

• Pioneer proof of concepts of new technologies keeping in view product road-map and business priorities
• Self-study and share his / her learning within the team and across teams
• Provide required help to other team-members
• Pioneer in various team events and work towards objectives of these events
• Make meaningful suggestions to make ceremonies more effective
  
  

About You

• You have several years of experience with Software Development
• You have worked successfully with product teams in the past and ideally have some experience with mentoring junior developers
• You like working in a collaborative environment where there is collective ownership of the code
• You work in a Continuous Integration and always strive for Continuous Delivery
• You like to share and enable others to increase your whole team's performance