Senior Software Developer

15 Minutes ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Software Developer role at Research Square involves working within an Agile product team. The responsibilities include participating in daily stand-ups, contributing to planning and retrospective ceremonies, developing new features, and improving code quality through pair programming. The developer will be involved in building domain, product, and business knowledge, working with stakeholders, and managing product delivery. The role also includes supporting and monitoring the platform. Within 3 months, the developer will familiarize themselves with the technology stack (PHP, React JS, Node JS, Next JS, MySQL, Docker, HTML, CSS, and AWS). By 3-6 months, they will gain a basic understanding of the team's context and product business model, and mentor new teammates. In 6-12 months, the developer will build a solid understanding of the product's business domain, participate in discussions for design and architectural changes, and transform high-level requirements into actionable work.
Must have:
  • Solid understanding of PHP, Docker, MySQL, React JS, Next JS, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices, domain event architecture.
  • 5+ years of experience as a developer.
  • Good command of English is important; collaboration is important in our day-to-day work.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of Slim Framework or Symphony Framework or any other Framework etc.
  • Good understanding of design practices, lean mean design, clean code, technical debts, refactoring and XP practices (TDD, pair programming etc.).

Job Details

Job Title: Senior Software Developer  

Location:   Pune  

  

  

About Springer Nature

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About the Brand

Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions is the technology and publishing solutions arm of the Springer Nature Group. We leverage our insight in the publishing domain and acquire, produce, and deliver content across media and markets using our Technology and Publishing Solutions. With a focus on technology-driven solutions and deep insight into the publishing domain, Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions offers a range of services that help our Group brand acquire, produce, and deliver content in the most efficient ways possible. We are driven by over 1000 professionals in Technology, Research & Analysis, and Marketing shared services

  

About the Role

Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint platform. At Research Square, we aim to provide the best editorial support to preprint authors. An important function of the preprint platform is to ensure that manuscripts are processed smoothly from submission to acceptance. To achieve this, we are seeking a Software Developer to join our team and help us to create the best solutions for users. 

 We are looking for a Senior Software Developer who can work in PHP, Slim Framework or Symphony Framework, docker, MySQL, React JS, Next JS, Node JS, HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices, domain event architecture. We need a candidate who is proactive, self-driven, active listener, takes ownership and able to handle stakeholders in technical design, solutioning, implementation and release. Candidate should be able to build good rapport with stakeholders. Candidate should be proficient in English communication, both written and verbal. 

  

Role Responsibilities: 

  

Agile product team, day-to-day you will: 

Take part in our daily stand-ups. Contribute to ceremonies like planning/ IPM, showcase, collaborative design and retrospectives. Develop new features and improve code quality by pair programming with other team members. Build more and more domain, product and business knowledge. Work with all stakeholders and manage the product delivery [Design to Release] Take part in support and monitoring of the platform. 

  

What you will be doing 

  

Within 3 Months you will: 

  • Get familiar with our technology stack. Our application is built in PHP, React JS, Node JS, Next JS, MySQL, Docker, HTML, CSS, and deployed on AWS. 

  • Get to know the various Stakeholders and their general requirements. 

  • Take part in reducing technical debt by working with team mates to add test coverage. 

  • Get to know all the members of the team. 

  

By 3-6 months you will: 

  • Have a basic understanding of the team’s context, product’s business model. 

  • Build more knowledge of the product, domain and mentor new teammates. 

  • On-board new team members and set up their machines and help them get up to speed fast. 

  • Be able to understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and Product Managers and help other disciplines with these conversations. 

  • Gain trust and confidence of project stakeholders. 

  • Hold technical discussions with the team in order to improve the product architecture and code quality and build more understanding of the overall product. 

  

By 6-12 months you will: 

  • Build solid understanding of the product’s business, domain and have technical expertise to participate in discussion for Design and architectural changes. 

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

  • Transform high level requirements into actionable work. 

  • Work with global teams on plan, Design, implementation and release. 

  • Build product features and help stakeholders to solve customer’s problems innovatively. 

  • Proactively provide useful and actionable feedback to all team members and stakeholders. 

  • Triage support queries and diagnose issues in the live applications. 

  

Experience , skills and qualification:

Experience: 5+ years of experience

Skills:

  • Need to have a solid understanding of PHP, docker, MySQL, React JS, Next JS, Node JS HTML5, CSS3, CICD and microservices, domain event architecture. 

  • Good to have knowledge of Slim Framework or Symphony Framework or any other Framework etc. 

  • You have 5+ years of experience as a developer. You have a good understanding of design practices, lean mean design, clean code, technical debts, refactoring and XP practices (TDD, pair programming etc.). 

  • Write quality code that is reliable and maintainable using industry best practices (e.g., style, security, testability, and efficiency). 

  • Provide guidance to company stakeholders on upcoming challenges and participate in project planning. 

  • Diagnose, debug, and optimize performance of web applications. 

  • Having a good command of English is important; collaboration is important in our day-to-day work. 

  • Workday availability during the US East Coast morning hours for virtual meetings and pairing sessions, approximately 6 pm to 9 pm Indian Standard Time 

Educational Qualification: Educated to degree level

Please Note- In accordance with our internal career movement guidance, 12 months in current role is a requirement before applying to a new role.

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent. Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/takingresponsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation.

For more information about career opportunities in Springer Nature please visit https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers

 

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Job Posting End Date:

13-06-2025

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