Senior Software Engineer, JSTOR Stewardship

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create modern, user-focused web applications that assist learners, educators, and librarians in discovering and engaging with JSTOR content.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain high-quality web applications for production.

• Develop intuitive, high-performance, reliable, and accessible user interfaces.

• Construct and integrate APIs and backend services to deliver comprehensive product experiences.

• Equip applications for analytics, experimentation, and observability.

• Collaborate with teams across Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering.

• Identify user challenges, validate solutions, and iterate based on data-driven insights.

• Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and design artifacts.

• Utilize product, operational, and engineering metrics to assess technical choices and enhance product quality.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems.

• Travel occasionally, less than 10% of the time, primarily to offices in Michigan and New York.

• Senior-level: offer hands-on technical leadership for intricate projects.

• Senior-level: steer technical design and architectural decisions.

• Senior-level: identify technical debt, operational risks, and opportunities for engineering enhancements.

• Senior-level: mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, pair programming, and collaborative efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience required for the senior-level position.

• Proficient in building production web applications using React, Vue, or a comparable framework.

• Expertise in TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS, and component-based architecture.

• Strong frontend capabilities, including responsive design, accessibility, performance, and maintainable application architecture.

• Experience in integrating frontend applications with REST or GraphQL APIs.

• Ability to contribute to GraphQL services and AWS Lambda functions utilizing Node.js, Python, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with automated testing, production debugging, and monitoring or observability practices.

• Knowledge of CI/CD and cloud-hosted application deployment workflows.

• Proficiency in Git-based development, code reviews, and technical documentation.

• Capacity to work collaboratively within engineering and with product and design teams.

• Ability to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly.

• Capability to utilize user feedback, product data, or operational metrics to guide engineering decisions and enhance user experiences.

• Senior-level: experience leading complex technical projects from concept through production and operations, including managing ambiguous requirements.

• Senior-level: ability to guide technical choices while balancing user needs, business priorities, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.

• Senior-level: experience fostering the growth of other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, or mentoring.

• Must be able to work and reside in the continental United States.

• ITHAKA is not presently considering candidates who require any type of immigration sponsorship to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Employer-funded 10% retirement contribution.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• 22 days of paid time off.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Up to 12 paid sick days.

• Wellness benefits.