Principal Software Engineer: AI, API & Cloud Leader

Butterworths Limited Company; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a senior technology leader to act as a technical authority across multiple engineering teams, shaping architecture, delivering scalable software and data solutions, and mentoring engineers to elevate development practices.

You will collaborate with customers and stakeholders, translate architectural direction into practical standards, and provide guidance on design, API development, and cloud deployments to drive high-quality products.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on C# software development experience.
• Experience designing and developing API-based solutions.
• Solid cloud technology experience, particularly AWS; Azure or others also relevant.
• Experience contributing to software architecture and technical design.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience for engineering teams.
• Able to translate high-level architectural direction into practical standards and solutions.
• Demonstrable AI fluency with use of AI tools in software engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for 2 teams.
• Provide design input across a product.
• Work directly with customers and end users.
• Be the go-to person on coding and technical issues; interface to finalize requirements.
• Write and review specifications for system components of moderate complexity.
• Complete complex bug fixes.
• Design and work with complex data models.
• Mentor lead software developers in consultancy on development methods and optimization techniques.

Skills

C# development

API design

Cloud AWS

Software architecture

Technical leadership

AI fluency

Adaptability

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a senior technology leader to act as a technical authority across multiple engineering teams, shaping architecture, delivering scalable software and data solutions, and mentoring engineers to elevate development practices.

You will collaborate with customers and stakeholders, translate architectural direction into practical standards, and provide guidance on design, API development, and cloud deployments to drive high-quality products.