AI-Driven Software Engineering Lead

RELX INC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Reed Tech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead AI-first SaaS delivery on modern cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive secure, scalable software while expanding AI-enabled practices.

You will balance hands-on coding with people leadership, aligning teams to product goals and engineering standards. Responsibilities include guiding CI/CD, Azure services, code reviews, and architecture decisions, while fostering an inclusive, high‑performing

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery of complex production software systems.
• Experience managing direct reports including hiring, coaching, performance reviews, retention and performance management.
• Deep experience using Claude Code or comparable AI coding agents for planning, implementation and testing.
• Strong experience building production web applications with C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs and data models.
• Familiarity with Azure, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Docker, Kubernetes, observability, and production operations.
• Track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, improving engineering practices and communicating trade-offs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Use Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or other approved AI coding tools to plan, build, refactor, test, debug, review, and document production software.
• Establish practical guardrails for AI-generated code, including repo-level instructions, review standards, secure coding expectations, automated checks, and clear human accountability.
• Guide ideas from discovery and proof of concept through technical design, implementation, validation, release, and continuous improvement.
• Design and implement web-based SaaS capabilities using C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, and modern web architecture patterns.
• Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests where appropriate.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, branching and merging strategies, release practices, developer workflows, and containerized delivery with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build secure, resilient, observable Azure services using capabilities such as Key Vault, Application Insights, Service Bus, Application Gateway, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage.
• Manage direct reports through coaching, feedback, development planning, goal setting, performance management, and talent development while raising engineering standards through mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, reusable patterns, and documentation.

Skills

AI coding

Team management

C# / .NET

Angular / TypeScript

Azure

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Code reviews

Secure coding

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

SQL / data modeling

Job description

LexisNexis Reed Tech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead AI-first SaaS delivery on modern cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive secure, scalable software while expanding AI-enabled practices.

You will balance hands-on coding with people leadership, aligning teams to product goals and engineering standards. Responsibilities include guiding CI/CD, Azure services, code reviews, and architecture decisions, while fostering an inclusive, high‑performing