Software Engineering Lead

About our Team

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernize our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis Intellectual Property’s flagship AI products, LexisNexis Classification. The team enhances the application with new features and functions to enrich the users experience as well as optimizing existing functionalities. This is an opportunity to lead a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and become an essential part of building and maintaining the product architecture.

We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core including :

• React
• Go
• Python
• JavaScript
• Java
• C# / .Net
• Postgres
• SQL
• AWS

About the Role :

We are hiring a Software Engineering Lead to take the responsibility for the work on maintaining, modernizing and enhancing a key product, LexisNexis Classification. This product uses AI to read millions of patents globally and pull the relevant patents into custom categories that are relevant to the specific technology areas users define.

You’ll be the go-to person for a small highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and process. Your engineering team will be based mainly in South Africa but also across Europe. You will also work closely with existing application teams, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and the USA.

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will play a crucial role in overseeing software development mainly within LexisNexis Classification. You will contribute directly to solving technical problems as well as guiding your team to success.

Responsibilities

Requirements

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer :

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know.

We are an equal opportunity employer : qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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