Clarivate

Lead Software Engineer - Al Product development

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5 months ago
Barcelona, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable backend and full-stack product features.
  • Build and maintain Java and Node.js microservices and APIs with strong performance, reliability, and security.
  • Integrate LLM-based features, RAG pipelines, AI assistants, and agent-based workflows into production systems.
  • Own features from concept through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Apply prompt engineering, AI evaluation, guardrails, and performance optimization practices.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and improve system scalability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, UX, and domain experts on customer-facing solutions.
  • Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 7 years of backend development experience with Java 11/17, Spring Boot, microservices, scalable distributed systems, and RESTful APIs.
  • At least 6 years of experience with Angular, Node.js, and full-stack product development.
  • At least 3 years of experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems using OpenAI or Azure OpenAI APIs.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, AI assistants, agent workflows, tool calling, memory patterns, RAG pipelines, embeddings, retrieval orchestration, and AI evaluation.
  • Experience building and scaling AI-enabled platforms and services in production environments.
  • At least 6 years of experience delivering end-to-end product features with CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud platforms such as AWS.
  • Preferred experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, vector databases, Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Responsible AI practices, A/B testing, feature flags, and shared AI services.
  • Strong collaboration, technical decision-making, system design, and engineering mentorship capabilities.

Benefits

  • Full-time permanent hybrid position in Barcelona, working in the office up to three days per week during primarily CET business hours.
  • 30 working days of vacation.
  • Paid volunteering hours through a volunteering community.
  • Private health, life, and disability insurance.
  • Tax-free benefits including restaurant, kindergarten, and transport cards.
  • On-site Catalan, Spanish, and English language classes.
  • Central Barcelona office and an Agile work environment with global colleagues.

Tech Stack

AngularAWSGitHub ActionsJavaJenkinsNode.jsSpring Boot
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About Clarivate

10,000+ employees

Clarivate provides subscription data, analytics platforms and workflow software for academia, government, intellectual property and life sciences organizations. Its portfolio includes Web of Science for research discovery, Derwent and CPA Global tools for patents and IP management, and brand/domain protection services. Formed in 2016 from Thomson Reuters’ IP & Science business, the company is headquartered in London and trades on the NYSE (CLVT).

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