Software Engineering Lead- (AI product)

RELX INC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global analytics company in London seeks a Software Engineering Lead to modernize their AI-driven LexisNexis® Classification product. You will oversee a skilled agile team, managing software development and enhancing product features using technologies like AWS, Python, and Angular. This role offers the chance to impact innovation within a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Understanding of Scrum and agile frameworks.
• Experience in leading software engineering efforts for AI products.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Owning and executing the backlog of product modernisation.
• Leading delivery of data science research into scalable features.
• Creating performance- and cost-optimised services.

Skills

Software Engineering techniques

AWS

Python

C#

Angular

Tools

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Go

Databricks

JavaScript

Azure Pipelines

Job description

Software Engineering Lead - (AI product)

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

About Our Team

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernise our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis Intellectual Property’s flagship AI products, LexisNexis® Classification. The team modernises the application with new features and functions to enrich the users' experience, as well as implementing 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 become an essential part of building the new product architecture.

We expect this team to work across multiple technologies, centred around a core, including Angular, Python, C#, .NET, SQL, AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda, CDK, etc.), and Applied AI/ML libraries and frameworks.

About The Role

We are hiring a Software Engineering Lead to take responsibility for the work on modernising and enhancing a key product, LexisNexis® Classification. This product utilises AI to scan millions of patents worldwide and categorise the relevant patents into custom categories that align with the specific technology areas users define.

You will be the go‑to person for a small, highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and processes. Your engineering team will be based in London. You will also work closely with the existing application team in South Africa, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will play a crucial role in overseeing software development for a modernised LexisNexis® Classification. You will contribute directly to solving technical problems as well as guiding your team to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning and executing the backlog of product modernisation.
• Leading the delivery and deployment of data science research into scalable AI‑powered features.
• Creating performance‑ and cost‑optimised services.
• Able to communicate and take ownership within the team and across team boundaries.
• Writing and reviewing detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.
• Leading in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Managing a team of software engineers in a Scrum‑based development environment while collaborating with stakeholders.

Requirements

• Understand Software Engineering techniques and processes, particularly adapting Scrum and agile frameworks to meet business needs.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, including knowledge of running cost‑effective serverless architecture.
• Experience working with Python, C#, and Angular.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience.
• Experience with PyTorch, Scikit‑learn, Go, Databricks, JavaScript, and Azure Pipelines is desirable, but not essential.
• Experience in leading 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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 the employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work.

About Our Business

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we believe that whenever a person works on a patent and understands the future trajectory of a specific technology, that person has the potential to fundamentally change how society operates. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavours to better humankind. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve superior results. By harnessing the latest advances in machine learning combined with expert analysis, LexisNexis Intellectual Property is disrupting how actionable insight is extracted from patent data. Information can now be accessed with efficiency, accuracy and at a speed that is just not possible by traditional methods. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results.

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About RELX

RELX is a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.