Senior Data Platform Engineer | Lead AI-Driven Backend

Eduvos; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data platforms and services. You will mentor engineers and drive AI-assisted development practices to deliver high-impact solutions.

Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and engineers to balance scalability, reliability and maintainability while shaping the Data Engineering function’s direction.

Qualifications

• Deep proficiency in Python for building apps, pipelines or services at scale.
• Strong SQL skills; designing schemas; handling large datasets.
• Experience in data/backend engineering end-to-end ownership.
• Ability to make architectural and technical trade-offs.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading initiatives.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative team setting.
• Experience developing and maintaining APIs and services; AI-assisted tool usage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and maintenance of data pipelines and backend services using Python.
• Write efficient SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis; design schemas.
• Develop and maintain APIs/services (e.g. FastAPI and SQLAlchemy) to expose data.
• Own technical design decisions for data systems balancing scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with analysts, scientists and engineers to deliver reliable solutions.
• Drive infrastructure for data workloads: containers, orchestration, provisioning.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve data systems; lead incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, raise the technical bar.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Backend engineering

Architectural decisions

Mentoring

AI-assisted development

Collaboration

Tools

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

APIs

Containers

Orchestration

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data platforms and services. You will mentor engineers and drive AI-assisted development practices to deliver high-impact solutions.

Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and engineers to balance scalability, reliability and maintainability while shaping the Data Engineering function’s direction.