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JoVE

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

📚 Education

🔬 Science

Education • Science

JoVE is a video-first platform that produces and distributes peer-reviewed scientific and educational video content demonstrating laboratory methods, experiments, and science concepts. Used by universities, research institutions, and companies, JoVE provides thousands of protocol videos and educational products (JoVE Journal, JoVE Science Education, JoVE Core, JoVE Lab Manual, etc. ) to support research reproducibility and science teaching across life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and related fields.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces. • Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms. • Adhere to JoVE’s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms. • Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends. • Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing. • Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase. • Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements. • Explain and “whiteboard” complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise. • Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation. • Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments.

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree • 5+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs. • Strong proficiency in server-side programming (Node.js). Familiarity with PHP is an added advantage. • Strong understanding of system design, data architecture, and microservices or modular monoliths. • Skilled in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services and external SDKs. • Familiarity with event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, and message queues (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.). • Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases — e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis,— with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships. • Solid experience with cloud-native architecture using AWS (serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms. • Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development. • Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally). • Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools. • Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive compensation package. • You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education. • Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration. • Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.