Software Engineer III

LexisNexis; Faringdon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal technology company in Faringdon seeks a Software Engineer III to modernize its AI-driven product offerings. You will enhance functionalities and deliver AI-powered features by collaborating closely with a dynamic, agile team. The role demands strong coding skills in Python or C#, an understanding of AWS, and a commitment to best coding practices. This company promotes a healthy work-life balance, offering flexible hours and an array of benefits.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical benefits

Life assurance

Competitive pension scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to write code and tests in Python, C#, or Angular.
• Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered features.
• Communicate effectively with the team.
• Participate in development processes and code reviews.

Skills

Python

C#

Angular

AWS

Communication skills

Tools

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Azure Pipelines

Databricks

Job description

Software Engineer III

Are you ready for the next step in your engineering career? Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?

Overview

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernise our existing application stack, powering LexisNexis Classification, an AI product. The team modernises the application with new features and functions to enrich the users\' experience, and implements research from our in-house data science team at scale. This is an opportunity to be a key part of a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and to help build the new product architecture.

The team works across multiple technologies, including:

• Angular
• Python
• C#/.Net
• SQL
• AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda, CDK, etc.)
• Applied AI/ML libraries and frameworks

Role

We are hiring Software Engineers to modernise and enhance LexisNexis Classification. This product uses AI to read millions of patents globally and pull relevant patents into custom categories defined by users.

You will be part of a small, highly skilled agile team with ownership of the mission, development practices, and processes. The engineering team is based in London, with collaboration with the existing application team in South Africa and stakeholders across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivering AI-powered features
• Communicating effectively within the team
• Participating in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews
• Operating in a Scrum-based development environment while collaborating with stakeholders
• Proactively learning about best coding practices relevant to the tech stack

Requirements

• Ability to write code and tests in Python, C#, or Angular, and willingness to learn others
• Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud providers
• Understanding software engineering techniques and processes
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Knowledge of PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Azure Pipelines, Databricks, and AWS CDK is desirable but not essential
• Experience in software engineering efforts for AI-enabled SaaS products is desirable but not essential

Why Join Us?

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance with flexible hours to fit productivity, wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals.

Benefits and Perks

• Working flexible hours
• Generous holiday allowance with optional additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Competitive contributory pension
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Charity and volunteering leave (RECARES days)
• Access to employee resource groups and learning resources
• Perks at Work employee discounts

About Our Business

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we support innovators in their endeavours to better humankind. We enable innovators to decide, be productive, comply with regulations, and achieve results by combining machine learning with expert analysis to extract actionable insights from patent data.

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