Software Engineering Lead

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company in Southampton is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to guide a team in developing complex software products. Key responsibilities include managing a team, developing and enhancing software functionalities, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in Agile environments and proficiency with technologies like JavaScript, AWS, and cloud services. Competitive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and eye care vouchers

Private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Contributory pension scheme

Travel Season ticket loan

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Optional Dental Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing a team.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to work with complex data models.
• Proficiency in development languages and technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and more.
• Experience administering cloud services such as AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve software functionality for enterprise products.
• Work with team on design and code refactoring.
• Conduct peer code reviews.
• Test your code and that of colleagues.
• Collaborate with customer support to solve problems.
• Document the development of microservices.

Skills

Team Management

Agile/Scrum Experience

Complex Data Models

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

AWS

GenAI Interest

Tools

Node.js

SQL

HTML

CSS

JSON

XML

Job description

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Software Engineering Lead

Apply locations UK - Grosvenor House (Southampton) time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R97530

About the Business:

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com/

About our Team:

By joining us you will have the opportunity to share ownership in solving this problem end to end. From exploring new data sources for building features, to design and put in production predictive models and make sure they perform consistently over time. We have available terabytes of flights, events and news data and we constantly add new data sources. What we are looking for is someone with sound technical knowledge in ML, statistics and software engineering, the creativity to leverage this knowledge in solving unusual problems and the will to operate while outside his/her comfort zone

About the Role:

You’ll be part of our Software Engineering squads, working with talented engineers and performing complex research, design, and implementation within a software functional area or product line. Your role will cover all aspects of the software development lifecycle as you will develop, refactor, fix, test and review new software functionality, improvements, and bug fixes to our product portfolio. You will also provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the development of cross-functional software products.

To be a role model and leader for not just your squad, but all of Cirium engineering. Foster innovative culture, handle stakeholder meetings and discussions with other business entities to bring products to market.

You will be a champion for engineering and open to new ideas and technology – we like to keep ahead of the game not just up to date!

Responsibilities:

• Develop, refactor, fix, test and review new software functionality, improvements, and bug fixes to our flagship enterprise products.

• Work with the development team on design and code refactoring to ensure a quality code base.

• Peer code review to promote best practice and continuous improvement.

• Test your own code and your colleague’s code. No code should go untested!

• Liaise with Customer Support Team to help diagnose and solve problems.

• Collaborate with other team members to apply new ideas, practices, and tools to improve the team’s effectiveness, finding opportunities to improve Cirium’s products, processes, and development environment.

• Write and review detailed documentation for the development of micro services.

• Keep abreast of new technology developments and bring these into the business, particularly GenAI.

Requirements:

• You should a strong level of experience in managing a Team .

• You have a n advanced knowledge of working in Agile/Scrum environments .

• You have the ability to work with complex data models .

• You have expertise in development languages and technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, GraphQL , HTML, CSS, Node, Json, XML, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Python and .Net . Prefferable experience with TDD also.

• You have significant experience leveraging and administering could services such as AWS and the services they offe r including but not limited to lambda functions, EKS, ECS, SQS, etc.

• You can write and review detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

• You share your ideas and designs effectively with others via documentation or verbal mediums across various audiences within the organization .

• An interest in GenAI

Working for you:

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
● Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
● Wellbeing programs
● Life assurance
● Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
● 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
● Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
● RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
● Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
● Access to extensive learning and development resources
● Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work

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