Software Engineering Lead

About the role

We are looking for a Tech Lead with deep search experience to provide hands-on technical leadership for the Search Experience team. In this role, you will guide the design and delivery of scalable search and retrieval systems, lead a group of engineers, and serve as a key technical partner to product, platform, and research stakeholders. You will balance writing high-quality code with leading technical execution - shaping architectural decisions, unblocking delivery, and ensuring our search platform evolves to meet the demands of diverse products and users. This role sits between senior engineers and principal-level leadership, with strong ownership of outcomes and day-to-day technical direction. Our team is dedicated to unlocking the rich knowledge embedded within Elsevier's content through our rich data platform - empowering researchers, clinicians, and innovators worldwide to gain new insights, make informed decisions, and accelerate progress across research, healthcare, and life sciences. We lead the ongoing transformation of Elsevier's vast, unstructured information into richly interconnected knowledge graphs that capture the full depth and nuance of scientific meaning. Through our dynamic knowledge discovery platform, we combine graph-powered agentic AI with advanced search technologies to deliver contextually relevant, trustworthy, and precise answers to researchers. As part of the Search Experience team, you'll contribute to the systems and infrastructure that fuel this mission. We focus on building scalable, reliable, and high-performance retrieval and AI systems - including shared search platform capabilities, semantic and vector search, and AI-powered experiences - that accelerate innovation across Elsevier's ecosystem.