Software Engineer (Node.js & React)

About the role

Wiley's Research Technology team builds ReX Review & Screening, a platform used by authors, editors and reviewers to move manuscripts through screening, reviewer invitation, review reports and editorial decisions. As a Software Engineer (P2), you will design, build and operate multi-tenant services and web applications, owning features end to end with moderate guidance from senior engineers, architects, QA engineers and product partners.

Key responsibilities

• Build and evolve features across the manuscript lifecycle, such as editor and reviewer assignment, invitations, review reports, editorial decisions, manuscript versioning and screening checks.
• Develop backend services and APIs with TypeScript and Node.js, and contribute to React web applications used by editors, reviewers and authors.
• Maintain event-driven integrations with AWS SNS/SQS and Kafka, and design multi-tenant features with tenant scoping and data isolation.
• Model data in PostgreSQL, including schema migrations, indexing and performance tuning, and work with containerized services on Kubernetes in AWS.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, identity and access management (Keycloak, Wiley Connect), and write unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests.
• Monitor and resolve production issues, follow code review and clean code practices, and take part in Scrum ceremonies and support rotations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js skills; React experience is advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication in English and ability to work in distributed, cross-functional teams.

Required skills

• RESTful or GraphQL APIs, relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), and cloud technologies (preferably AWS).
• Event-driven architectures, Docker and Kubernetes, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Nice to have: multi-tenant SaaS experience, Kafka, Keycloak/OAuth/OIDC, and experience in scholarly publishing or peer review.