JavaScript Engineer

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We're hiring a Senior JavaScript Engineer to help shape the technical direction of Research Exchange Review (Phenom Review), Wiley's peer review platform where editors, reviewers, and editorial staff take manuscripts from editor assignment to editorial decision. You'll lead the design and delivery of complex features across a distributed, event-driven system. You'll raise the bar on reliability, observability, and engineering quality, and mentor engineers across the team.

Review is part of Wiley's Research Exchange (ReX) platform. It is the step manuscripts reach after screening: they are triaged and assigned to a handling editor, sent out to reviewers, revised by authors, and taken to a decision before moving on to quality checks and production.

We support thousands of manuscripts and many users with different editorial roles, across areas such as:

- Journal setup, editorial boards, and role management (chief, associate, section, academic, and guest editors)

- Configurable editorial models, from single-tier to two-tier triage and special issue workflows

- Editor and reviewer suggestions, invitations, and reviewer reports

- Author revisions, editor recommendations, and editorial decisions

- Peer review integrity signals, such as conflicts of interest and reviewer misconduct

Review runs as a core application in a monorepo, alongside supporting services such as the flexible editorial models engine, editor and reviewer suggestion, and user sync with Wiley's Connect identity platform. The platform is multi-tenant by design, so different journal portfolios can run with their own configuration.

The platform is growing in three directions at once: more of Wiley's journal portfolio moving onto ReX, more configurable peer review workflows per journal, and a modernized codebase. Getting the architecture, workflow configurability, and operations right is central to this role.

You'll be a technical leader in the team. You'll turn ambiguous product goals into clear technical designs, make and document architectural decisions, and lead complex work from start to finish. You'll work closely with engineering managers, architects, product, and QA. Your job is to make sure what we build is scalable, secure, and easy to run in production.

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We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on JavaScript/TypeScript
• Deep expertise in Node.js back-end development and strong working knowledge of React
• Proven experience designing and running distributed, event-driven systems (queues, pub/sub, background jobs) in production
• Strong experience with API design (GraphQL and/or REST) and relational data modelling (PostgreSQL)
• Track record of leading technical design and delivering complex features across teams
• Hands-on experience with observability and production operations: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident handling
• Solid understanding of security basics: authentication and authorization, role-based access, and secure handling of confidential data such as reviewer identities and reports
• Experience with cloud-native deployment (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping team engineering practices
• Clear written and spoken communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience building highly configurable, workflow-driven SaaS products (workflow engines, state machines, role-based permissions)
• Experience modernising a large codebase, such as incremental framework migration (e.g. to NestJS) or splitting services out of a monolith
• Experience with recommendation or matching features (e.g. expert finding) and integrations with identity or user-profile platforms
• OpenTelemetry, Grafana (Loki/Tempo), and Prometheus at scale
• Contract testing (e.g. consumer-driven contracts for APIs and events)
• Background in academic publishing, peer review, research integrity, or regulated domains

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