Software Engineering Lead

RELX; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Durban is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to manage and enhance their AI product, LexisNexis Classification. This role involves overseeing a skilled agile team, optimizing product features, and collaborating with international stakeholders. Candidates should have strong skills in software engineering, familiarity with AWS, and experience with front-end frameworks like React. Flexible working hours and comprehensive benefits, including medical aid and retirement plans, are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan

Study Leave

Qualifications

• Experience with running cost-effective serverless architecture.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute backlog of product optimization and enhancements.
• Be responsible for backend and frontend maintenance of the product.
• Assist in requirements gathering and implementation of new features.

Skills

Software Engineering techniques

AWS or similar cloud providers

React

Python

JavaScript

Go

Job description

About our Team

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernize our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis Intellectual Property’s flagship AI products, LexisNexis Classification. The team enhances the application with new features and functions to enrich the users experience as well as optimizing existing functionalities. This is an opportunity to lead a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and become an essential part of building and maintaining the product architecture.

We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core including:

• React
• Go
• Python
• JavaScript
• Java
• C#/.Net
• Postgres
• SQL
• AWS

About the Role:

We are hiring a Software Engineering Lead to take the responsibility for the work on maintaining, modernizing and enhancing a key product, LexisNexis Classification. This product uses AI to read millions of patents globally and pull the relevant patents into custom categories that are relevant to the specific technology areas users define.

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

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

Responsibilities

• Owning and executing backlog of product optimization and enhancements.
• Being responsible for backend and frontend maintenance of the product and ensuring bug fixes are prioritized in a timely manner.
• Assisting in requirements gathering, decomposition and implementation of new features, such as additional features for product integration into existing LexisNexis Intellectual Property products.
• Integrating performance and cost-optimization considerations into development work, throughout the entire development lifecycle.
• Able to communicate and take ownership within the team and across team boundaries.
• Helping to maintain AWS platform infrastructure with CDK, such as NodeJS/Python Lambdas.
• Assisting in refactoring the existing application.
• 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 on running cost effective serverless architecture.
• Experience working with React.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, Go, Azure Pipelines, GraphQL (or similar API schemas) or willingness to rapidly learn.
• Experience in leading software engineering efforts for AI-enabled SaaS products is desirable, but not essential.

Benefits

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
• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.