Software Engineering Lead

Software Engineering Lead

Are you ready for the next step in your engineering career?

Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?

About Our Team:

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernise our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis Intellectual Property's flagship AI products, LexisNexis® Classification. The team modernises the application with new features and functions to enrich the users' experience, as well as implementing research from our in-house data science team at scale. This is an opportunity to be a key part of a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and become an essential part of building the new product architecture.

We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core, including Angular, Python, C#/.Net, SQL, AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda, CDK, etc.), Applied AI/ML libraries and frameworks.

About The Role:

We are hiring a Software Engineering Lead to take responsibility for the work on modernising 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 will be the go-to person for a small, highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and processes. Your engineering team will be based in London. You will also work closely with the existing application team in South Africa, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Owning and executing the backlog of product modernisation.
• Leading the delivery and deployment of data science research into scalable AI-powered features.
• Creating performance- and cost-optimised services.
• Able to communicate and take ownership within the team and across team boundaries.
• 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 of running cost-effective serverless architecture.
• Experience working with Python, C#, and Angular.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience.
• Experience with PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Go, Databricks, JavaScript, and Azure Pipelines is desirable, but not essential.
• Experience in leading software engineering efforts for AI-enabled SaaS products is desirable, but not essential.

Why Join Us?

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Work in a way that works for you

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.

Working for you

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:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme.
• Travel Season ticket loan.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you.
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to the employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About Our Business -

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we believe that whenever a person works on a patent and understands the future trajectory of a specific technology, that person has the potential to fundamentally change how society operates. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavours to better humankind. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve superior results. By harnessing the latest advances in machine learning combined with expert analysis, LexisNexis Intellectual Property is disrupting how actionable insight is extracted from patent data. Information can now be accessed with efficiency, accuracy and at a speed that is just not possible by traditional methods. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results