Senior Software Engineer

The Software Engineer (P2) is a strong individual contributor responsible for designing, developing, and supporting scalable services and APIs across our Enterprise Data platform.

You'll work closely with senior engineers, architects, and product teams to build the microservices, data pipelines, and analytics capabilities that turn Wiley's content and research assets into actionable intelligence—while contributing to engineering quality, system reliability, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities

Design and develop scalable backend services using Java, Python, and Spring Boot.

Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices to OpenAPI specifications.

Contribute to the design of Big Data and analytics engineering pipelines that power our Enterprise Data platform.

Apply sound database design principles across relational and NoSQL data stores.

Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Participate in system design discussions, technical reviews, and code reviews.

Write unit and integration tests.

Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Contribute to CI/CD automation and observability practices.

Required Qualifications

4+ years of software development experience.

Strong Experience With

Java

Python

Spring Boot

REST APIs and OpenAPI

SQL databases

Experience designing and building microservices.

Experience with cloud-native development on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or other cloud platforms such as AWS, with a preference for GCP.

Solid understanding of system design principles for distributed, scalable systems.

Experience with Big Data and analytics engineering: building or supporting data pipelines, batch or stream processing, or analytics platforms.

Strong database design skills across relational and NoSQL systems.

Experience With

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Git-based workflows

Understanding of Agile development methodologies.

Experience writing automated tests using JUnit and Mockito.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Elasticsearch for search and indexing.

Frontend experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript.

Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka or other messaging infrastructure.