Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III

Do you have a passion for crafting seamless user experiences and building intuitive, high-performance web applications?

Are you excited by the challenge of driving innovation and delivering impactful front-end solutions at scale?

About Team:

Leyden comprises a small team of designers and developers, working closely together to create and maintain an integrated system of UX and code components, used by 50 teams across Elsevier to produce on-brand, performant, accessible user interfaces for their products, helping hundreds of thousands of STEM professionals worldwide.

About Role:

This position performs moderately difficult research, design, software development, and support assignments within the Leyden Design System. The position should have the ability to work on individual pieces of work and solve problems, including the design of the program flow of individual pieces of code, effective coding, and automated testing.

Key Skills:

• Proven years of experience in front-end software development.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS.
• Experience with React.
• Familiarity with tools like NPM, Webpack/Vite, GitHub Actions, and code quality tools.
• Understanding of testing practices (unit, automated, cross-browser).
• Experience building accessible web interfaces (WCAG standards).
• Comfortable working in Agile, Kanban, or similar environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with additional front-end libraries or component systems.
• Familiarity with tools like Jira or similar project management platforms.
• Background in mentoring or supporting other developers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to define and implement front-end solutions.
• Developing and maintaining accessible, responsive, and performant web applications.
• Writing clean, maintainable code and participating in code reviews.
• Contributing to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Supporting and mentoring team members, fostering a culture of learning and inclusion.
• Helping manage and prioritise the development backlog.
• Staying current with emerging technologies and best practices.

Work in a way that works for you.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• 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
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• 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 via Perks at Work

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.