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Senior Software Developer
Own and evolve the platforms behind BRJ's publishing operation — our public journal website, the Atlas publishing CRM, and the author-facing submission and review pipeline.
Engineering • Remote • Full-time • 5+ years experience
About the Role
Boston Research Journals runs its entire publishing lifecycle — submission, peer review, invoicing, production and global launch — on software we build in-house. As a Senior Software Developer you will own features end to end across our TypeScript stack: a Next.js public website on Cloudflare Workers, a React admin portal, and an Express + PostgreSQL backend on AWS.
You will work directly with the editorial and operations teams, turning real publishing workflows into reliable, well-tested product. The team is small and senior; you will ship to production often and see your work used the same week.
What You Will Do
- Design, build and maintain features across the public website, the Atlas admin portal and the backend API.
- Model publishing workflows (submissions, issues, invoicing, notifications) into clean data models and APIs.
- Keep the production systems healthy: performance, error budgets, backups and deploy pipelines.
- Review code, raise the engineering bar and mentor mid-level colleagues.
- Collaborate with editors and operations staff to scope work and cut it into shippable increments.
What We Are Looking For
- 5+ years of professional software development, with strong TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Production experience with React and Node.js (Next.js and Express are our daily tools).
- Solid relational-database skills — schema design, migrations and query tuning on PostgreSQL or similar.
- Experience owning features end to end: requirements, implementation, tests, deploy and follow-through.
- Clear written communication in English — we are a distributed, documentation-heavy team.
Nice to Have
- Cloudflare Workers / serverless edge experience.
- AWS (EC2, SES, S3/R2) and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
- Prior exposure to scholarly publishing, OJS-style systems or CRMs.
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