Senior Software Engineer II - Flexible, Secure Cloud Apps

RELX; Richmond; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

RX Global, part of RELX, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to design, build and operate secure, scalable software across global digital platforms. You will own complex technical challenges, contribute to architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.

You will work on cloud-native applications on AWS, help improve observability, deployment, and engineering practices, and drive technical excellence

Qualifications

• Strong ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, incremental solutions.
• Experience in Agile cross-functional product development teams.
• Experience designing, operating, and optimising cloud-native applications on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-quality software across multiple services and components.
• Produce clear technical designs aligned to RX architecture principles and engineering standards.
• Build secure, resilient, observable and maintainable systems with reduced long-term cost.
• Lead pragmatic technical decision-making with trade-offs between speed, quality and sustainability.
• Improve test strategy, deployment confidence, code quality and engineering practices.
• Own the operational health of services, including monitoring and incident response.
• Work with Product and business stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS cloud

Mentoring

Technical leadership

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS Lambda

AWS S3

AWS SNS

AWS SQS

Elastic Beanstalk

Job description

RX Global, part of RELX, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to design, build and operate secure, scalable software across global digital platforms. You will own complex technical challenges, contribute to architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes.

You will work on cloud-native applications on AWS, help improve observability, deployment, and engineering practices, and drive technical excellence