Senior Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa LexisNexis Legal Full time

Senior Software Engineer II

Ready to make an impact? Join us and work on cutting-edge software solutions

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will undertake difficult research, design, and software development assignments within the French team. You will provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the setup, the development, and the tuning of a data analytics platform. You will perform architecture design - typically across multiple components; mentor more junior members of the team and work with others to talk to users/customers and translate their requests into solutions.

Responsibilities

  1. Contributing as part of a SCRUM squad team to develop cutting-edge legal search engine & analytics product.
  2. Ensuring technical consistency and overall code quality and maintainability, co-create technical components with the architect of the product.
  3. Defining, coordinating and providing direct input to project plans.
  4. Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.
  5. Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews, resolve technical issues as necessary.
  6. Keeping abreast of new technology developments and follow global RELX technical strategy.
  7. Mentoring more junior members of the team.

Requirements

  1. Have 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in the distributed data transform and load platforms.
  2. Have a BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
  3. Have solid experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.
  4. Be proficient with data manipulation language including optimization techniques, strong understanding of normalized/dimensional data modeling principles.
  5. Have expertise in development languages and technical stack including but not limited to: AWS Cloud (services: Lambda, S3, Redshift, DocumentDB, event Bridge, SES, or SNS…), and Python (Java is a plus).
  6. Be familiar with distributed data analytics platforms such as Apache Spark or Databricks, Apache Flink and Databases e.g REDIS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, SQL, NoSQL, Apache Solr.
  7. Be an exceptional problem-solver with experience in leading teams including identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.

Work in a way that works for you

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.


• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

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:

  • Medical Aid
  • Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
  • Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
  • Study Leave

About the Business

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.

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