Senior Full-Stack Software Developer

Are you a Software Developer who can quickly turn ideas into reality and bring ideas to life through demonstrators, proof of concept implementations and MVPs?

Do you thrive on exploring the art of the possible?

Are you interested in the practical application of artificial intelligence to solve problems in the real-world?

Are you experienced in getting new products and solutions to the market quickly?

Taylor & Francis is looking for a highly skilled Full-Stack Software Developer to join our growing Technical Innovation team as we work towards our shared purpose, to foster human progress through knowledge. Academic research continues to grow at exponential rates. Our challenge: Provide innovative products and services that enable the creation and consumption of that knowledge more quickly and effectively.

Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and deliver software products and services.
• Work to establish reliable data pipelines to help service the team with consistent, well managed data:
  • Understanding requirements from stakeholders
  • Design data pipelines and APIs
  • Agree designs with Innovation team and stakeholders
  • Implement solution independently or in conjunction with other team members
• Understand and help refine the requirements of new products, services and concepts.
• Evaluate and leverage and integrate 3rd Party solutions as part of an overall software solution.

Requirements

In order to be successful in this role you will:

• have strong and demonstrated hands-on experience as a software engineer/developer with proven skills in application design, architecture and development (essential)
• have experience in creating systems that leverage or incorporate AI into an overall solution (desirable)
• We are looking for candidates with a broad range of skills that include:
  • Experience in data manipulation and related data technologies. These range from typical relational databases to more specialized data stores that enable the efficient use of AI.
  • Experience creating and using restful services and web applications.
  • A range of experience across multiple languages and technologies. Including not less than three of Linux, Windows, Java, Javascript, Python, C#, SQL, MongoDB, Neo4j.
  • Experience in various front-end technologies such as React, Angular and JQuery.

Skills and Behaviours Required:

• A proven history of progressing from concept to MVP quickly and iteratively.
• A proven history of working productively as a member of a remote, global team, alongside evidence of independent working
• Be able to demonstrate and foster critical thinking and problem solving in a team environment.
• A proven history of learning and adopting new technology quickly
• Good verbal and written communication skills.