AI-Driven Software Engineering Lead

LexisNexis; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave and sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Reed Tech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead AI-first engineering teams delivering modern cloud-based SaaS solutions. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive secure, scalable software while embracing AI-assisted development.

You will guide discovery to production, manage performance, and foster strong engineering practices across architecture, security, and operations within a global life sciences software portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex production software systems.
• Experience managing direct reports including coaching and performance reviews.
• Proficient with Claude Code or similar AI coding agents across planning, implementation, testing, debugging, review, documentation, and refactoring.
• Strong hands-on experience building production web applications with C#, .NET, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs, data models, services, UI, and background processing.

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 PoC through 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 Key Vault, Application Insights, Service Bus, App Gateway, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage.
• Manage direct reports through coaching, feedback, development planning, goal setting, performance reviews, retention, and mentoring.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Managing direct reports

Claude Code / AI agents

C# / .NET / Angular

Azure / DevOps

Docker / Kubernetes

CI / CD pipelines

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

LexisNexis Reed Tech is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead AI-first engineering teams delivering modern cloud-based SaaS solutions. You will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive secure, scalable software while embracing AI-assisted development.

You will guide discovery to production, manage performance, and foster strong engineering practices across architecture, security, and operations within a global life sciences software portfolio.