We re looking for a proactive senior software developer with several years of experience who can help us build the best publication experience in the world.

The job is based in our Pune location and you will be working with a team based in Pune, London, and Lisbon. We offer a mixed remote/office working with up to three days per week working from home. Youll be part of our bigger community of developers located in the UK, India, Germany and Portugal.

Visit sndigital.springernature.com to learn more about who we are and what we do.

About You

You are keen to understand the problems we re solving, curious, and not afraid to ask questions

You have several years of experience developing software in Kotlin or Java and have a good understanding of how to build web applications, end to end.

You enjoy mentoring less experienced developers.

You like working in a collaborative team, where there is collective ownership of the product.

You enjoy getting involved with every stage of the software development lifecycle.

You would enjoy working in a Test-Driven environment and understand the benefits.

You would enjoy pair programming and working in a trunk-based development environment; practising Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

You see the value in developers owning production software and view failure as a chance to learn.

You can identify and discuss trade-offs of different technical approaches to a solution

You have experience in providing insights into the technical implications or solutions to consider and making it easy for less experienced or less technical colleagues to understand

You embrace a learning culture and strive to incorporate best practices and improvements into your daily work

You believe in and can articulate our company strategy on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and you want to make Springer Nature Digital a more inclusive environment for everyone

What you will be doing

Within 3 Months you will

Get familiar with our technology stack. All our new applications are built in Kotlin using http4k. Our applications are deployed to CloudFoundry using Concourse.

Take part in developing new features as a member of the tech team.

Get familiar with, and take part in, the team s agile processes and ceremonies.

Coach junior members of the team.

Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications.

By 3-6 months you will

Be a supportive member of the tech team, understanding our end-to-end, developing our infrastructure, including non-functional requirements, and working closely with our technology and Production partners.

Have an understanding of the team s context within the publishing business they are working in.

Lead technical discussions with the team in order to improve the product architecture and code quality.

Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Owners.

Contribute to blameless post-mortems.

Take part in the recruiting process, helping to assess applicants across SN Digital.

By 6-12 months you will

Onboard new members to the team or help other teams on the onboarding process.

Transform high level requirements into actionable work.

Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to team members.

Become an advocate for defining and implementing non-functional requirements.

Influence the design of the system architecture.

Be able to explain and visualise the benefits and trade-offs of proposed solutions.

Understand our customers needs, both internal and external, and how your work affects their experience .

Day to day responsibilities

As part of an Agile product team, day-to-day you will

Take part in our daily stand-ups.

Contribute to ceremonies like planning, story writing, collaborative design and retrospectives.

Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members, as well as working independently.

Take part in support and monitoring of our websites.

Senior Software Developer

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