Senior Software Engineer - FOLIO

EBSCO Information Services (EIS) provides a complete and optimized research solution comprised of e-journals, e-books, and research databases — all combined with the most powerful discovery service to support the information needs and maximize the research experience of our end-users. Headquartered in Ipswich, MA, EIS employs more than 3,300 people worldwide. We are the leader in our field due to our cutting-edge technology, forward-thinking philosophy, and top-notch workforce. EIS, a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., based in Birmingham, AL, is ranked in the top 200 of the nation’s largest, privately held corporations according to Forbes magazine. EBSCO is a company that will motivate you, inspire you, and allow you to grow. We are looking for the best. If you are too, we encourage you to explore our unique opportunities.

• Perform the technical design, implementation, testing, and production support of applications and platform software for the FOLIO open source platform (www.folio.org). FOLIO applications consist of business logic that performs a key library services function, for example resource management.  Folio platform software development may include producing REST APIs that provide underlying services for the applications, for example security or single-sign-on.  The software development includes not only developing production quality code, but also writing the accompanying automated tests and builds that accompany it.
• Provide expertise in developing secure, scalable, and responsive SaaS products
• Own system and feature quality throughout the development, testing, and deployment phases to ensure quality delivery expectations are met.
• Drive value and build to improve the quality of the team’s deliverables continuously.
• Conduct new technology research, proof of concept, and design work that will provide direction for the enhancement of the overall system and products.
• Contribute to software engineering best practices for design, coding standards, performance, security, delivery, maintainability, and culture.
• Demonstrate ownership of developed components from development through production.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. Masters preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in developing web applications using Java or Javascript/related tools/frameworks (both client-side and server side) - React, NodeJS, webpack, npm/yarn, etc.
• 3+ years of experience in designing relational database schema and writing complex SQL queries; experience with PostgreSQL specifically is a plus
• 2+ years of experience with AWS Cloud services
• Linux – general knowledge, shell scripting – RedHat/Amazon Linux specifically is a plus
• 3+ yrs experience using Agile
• Demonstrated ability to lead or drive a project with sound technical and design skills
• An advocate for unit testing, automation, and test-driven development.

• Virtualization – Docker, Vagrant, etc.
• Open Source Software – general knowledge SW dev model, experience contributing to
• CI/CD – Jenkins, Maven, etc.
• SCM - Git/GitHub
• RAML, JSON, XML
• Security related experience –SSO, OAUTH, SAML, LDAP, etc.
• Logging/Monitoring/Alerting/Analytics – SumoLogic, DataDog, Collectd, SNMP, JMX, etc.

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