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We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer 3 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.
- Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements.
- 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
- 7+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs.
- At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role, leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Strong proficiency in server-side programming (Node.js).
- Familiarity with frontend technologies - React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS.
- Strong understanding of system design, data architecture, and microservices or modular monoliths.
- Skilled in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services and external SDKs.
- Experience with event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, and message queues (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases — e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis,— with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships.
- Solid experience with cloud-native architecture using AWS (serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms.
- 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.
- Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.
Benefits
- A competitive compensation package.
- We are fully remote!
- 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.
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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is the premier, peer-reviewed scientific video journal, STEM education platform, and digital laboratory infrastructure powerhouse engineered to operate as the definitive visualization and reproducibility layer for global academic and biopharmaceutical research. The company completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional scientific publishing—where researchers and students struggle to replicate complex experimental methodologies, laboratory protocols, and physical hand movements from static, text-only journal scripts—by deploying high-definition, step-by-step video publication pipelines. Moving far beyond traditional, text-based academic archives or unvetted media libraries, JoVE natively unifies its indexed video journal (abstracted in PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus) with its specialized JoVE Science Education, JoVE Core, and JoVE Lab Manual frameworks into a single high-availability learning ecosystem. The platform empowers millions of scientists, professors, and students across thousands of prestigious universities and life-science centers globally—including Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford—to optimize training velocities, reduce laboratory resource waste, and maximize experimental success rates with elite precision. Under the hood, its sophisticated technical core natively orchestrates global, multi-region video production networks, custom interactive STEM quizzes, and AI-driven classroom curriculum mapping integrations. What sets JoVE apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing scientific ambiguity with absolute visual proof; by bridging the gap between intricate low-level physical manipulations and high-concurrency cloud-scale educational delivery, the firm enables global scientific networks to eliminate replication bottlenecks, supercharge academic literacy, and accelerate commercial and medical research innovations.
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