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Software Engineering Lead

LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 9 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Engineering lead
Other roles:Engineering manager, Software architect
Experience in role:7+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    .NET
    C#
    Angular

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

**About our Team

**

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

**About the Role

**

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will manage and guide a diverse team of engineers. Being the primary point of contact for your team, you will work closely with management and other business stakeholders such as the product owner and customer support squad, to ensure the success of your team and its deliverables. This role has direct reports and requires strong technical skills, good communication and great leadership abilities.

The expected effort spread is 30% implementation, 20% project management, and 50% team management and mentorship. This fluctuates based on what is needed at the time as it is the responsibility of the lead to manage priority.

In this role, you will be required to make informed technical and administrative decisions, conduct performance and code reviews, offer ongoing mentorship and drive the strategic direction of the team and its product(s). You would need to be comfortable with delegating tasks and doing hands-on implementation as well.

**Responsibilities **

Lead release management activities, including review of test plans, rollback plans, communication plans, and release notes.

Manage team capacity, time and attendance processes, performance feedback, and career development.

Facilitate agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and cross‑team engagement.

Provide technical leadership in solution design, implementation quality, and engineering best practices.

Shape and maintain long‑term strategies for technical health, maintenance, and operational effectiveness.

Support escalated queries directed to the engineering team.

Participate in hands‑on implementation, including coding, automation testing, and DevOps activities.

Review technical specifications, new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Perform other related duties as needed.

**Requirements

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7 years + Experience as a senior software engineer or solutions architect, including mentoring others.

Strong understanding of SOLID principles and established engineering best practices.

Proficiency in SQL and data manipulation, .NET and C# , Angular, Git and Azure pipelines

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

High emotional intelligence and the ability to support healthy team dynamics.

Effective organizational, planning, and change‑management skills.

Commitment to ethical practices, accountability, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture.

**Work in a way that works for you

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We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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

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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

**About the Business

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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.

About LexisNexis South Africa

1000+ employees

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.

Perks at LexisNexis South Africa

2 days Corporate Responsibility leave per annum
Annual profit and performance based bonuses
Provident Fund
Group Life and Disability benefits
Sponsored team outings
Development opportunities in CPT/JHB/PE/DBN
Leave starts at 20 days, increasing every 5 years to a maximum of 30 days per annum
Sponsored Microsoft exam and further IT qualifications
Medical Aid
Wellness Day
Quarterly company updates
Market related salaries
Work in SCRUM teams with other experienced developers
Flexible working hours
Work from home options

Tech Stack

application and data

AngularJS
AngularJS
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
React
React
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
C#
C#
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
Xamarin
Xamarin
.Net Core 2.0
.Net Core 2.0
TypeScript
TypeScript
Vue.js
Vue.js
Angular
Angular

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Grunt
Grunt
Jenkins
Jenkins
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Selenium
Selenium
npm
npm
TeamCity
TeamCity
Subversion
Subversion
Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server
Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy

business tool

Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
JIRA
JIRA
Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft Sharepoint

Office Photos

Office photo
Office photo
Office photo
Office photo

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