Ann Arbor, USA
6 days ago
Senior Software Support Engineer - IP

We are hiring a Senior Software Support Engineer to join Clarivate! In this role, you will handle the Tier 3 level support for FoundationIP software (and its services), in direct contact with our Software Support level 1-2, Professional Services and DevOps teams, all being based in EMEA, APAC and North America. 

This is a significant pivotal role between the Software Engineering team and customer-facing teams. It requires great technical and functional skills, organization and the ability to investigate on issues having various possible origins. This role also requires a strong sense of priority and follow-up on the opened issues, especially in a context of critical issues. 

As a member of the Software Engineering team, the Sr. Software Engineer will also have to study bugs, provide technical recommendations, implement and test fixes and when needed develop hotfixes for critical items. The role also covers the review, design, development and maintenance of several tools for troubleshooting use. In a context of technologies and software evolutions, this key role requires a continuous learning of those technologies.

About you – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field or equivalent relevant work experience

2+ years of experience working in software engineering or a technical support role

Work experience with web applications and event driven development

Work experience with Three-Tiered Solution architecture

1+ year of experience with:

SQL and PL/SQL

Java 8+ and Spring framework

HTML and JavaScript

Angular and JSPs

It would also be great if you had...

Experience working with Angular and JSPs, XML/XSL

Knowledge of debugging methods

Familiar with Apache Tomcat

Familiar with GIT

Ideally knowledge of Entity Frameworks (such as Hibernate and Spring JPA) and AngularJS

Experience with Agile methodologies

Knowledge of JIRA, ideally Atlassian suite

Experience in Intellectual Property and/or legal industries

What will you be doing in this role?

Guidance to troubleshooting methodology 

Provide technical assistance to consultants 

Review, design, develop and maintain tools used to diagnose client’s environment 

Develop and release hotfixes (solutions) for critical issues when necessary

Develop and test fixes to ensure quality delivery of fixed issues

Analyze bugs, and proposing recommendation for fixes

Proposing solutions or recommendations for those issues 

Analyze issues raised by our customers through the Software Support, Professional Services and/or DevOps teams

About the Team

FoundationIP is an Intellectual Property Management SaaS solution that assist clients in both corporate and law firm settings to manage their IP portfolios.  We have close to 700 clients spread around the world. The team consists of Software Engineers, QA, DevOps, Product Owners, etc. who are located across the US and India and work with other product services within Clarivate.  The team follows standard Agile SDLC methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.  The team uses a collaborative culture and works together on projects both internally and outside of FoundationIP within Clarivate.

Hours of Work

This is a full time permanent position

This is a hybrid role working 2-3 days a week in one of our US Clarivate offices, preferably Philadelphia

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Clarivate is an Equal Opportunity Employer Vets/Minorities/Women/Disabled

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