Postes à Durban, United States

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will undertake difficult research, design, and software development assignments within the French team. You will provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the setup, the development, and the tuning of a legal search platform. You will perform architecture design - typically across multiple components; mentor more junior members of the team and work with others to talk to users and the Product team in order to translate their requests into solutions.

• Contributing as part of a SCRUM squad team to develop cutting‑edge legal search engine product.
• Ensuring technical consistency and overall code quality and maintainability, co‑create technical components with the architects of the product.
• Defining, coordinating and providing direct input to project plans.
• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.
• Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews, resolve technical issues as necessary.
• Keeping abreast of new technology developments and follow global RELX technical strategy.
• Mentoring more junior members of the team.

• Have 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in the micro‑services applications.
• Have a BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• Have solid experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.
• Be proficient with reactive programming in Java with frameworks like Micronaut or SpringBoot and the micro‑services architecture.
• Have some experience with Lucene based search engines like Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.
• Have expertise in development languages and technical stack including but not limited to: AWS Cloud (services: Lambda, S3, RDS, Redshift, event Brigdge, SES, or SNS…), NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB….), deployment infrastructures (Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD …) and Java J2EE (version > = 17),
• Be an exceptional problem‑solver with experience in leading teams including identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.

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

We know that your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

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

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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