Senior Software Engineer II (JAVA & Microservices)
LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 1 day ago
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Senior Software Engineer II (JAVA & Microservices)
Locations
- Johannesburg
- Durban
- Port Elizabeth
- Cape Town
Time Type
Full time
Job Requisition ID
R101299
About the Role
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, development, and tuning of a legal search platform. You will perform architecture design 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.
Responsibilities
- Contributing as part of a SCRUM squad team to develop a cutting-edge legal search engine product.
- Ensuring technical consistency and overall code quality and maintainability, co-creating 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, resolving technical issues as necessary.
- Keeping abreast of new technology developments and following global RELX technical strategy.
- Mentoring more junior members of the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in micro-services applications.
- BS Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
- Solid experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.
- Proficient with reactive programming in Java using frameworks like Micronaut or SpringBoot and micro-services architecture.
- Experience with Lucene-based search engines such as Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.
- Expertise in development languages and technical stack including but not limited to:
- AWS Cloud (Lambda, S3, RDS, Redshift, EventBridge, SES, SNS)
- NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB)
- Deployment infrastructures (Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD)
- Java J2EE (version >= 17)
- Exceptional problem-solver with experience leading teams, including identifying, researching, and coordinating resources to troubleshoot complex project issues.
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 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 most productive.
Working for You
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. Benefits include:
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Study Leave
About the Business
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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About LexisNexis South Africa
LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.
In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.
The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.
At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.
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application and data
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