Senior Software Engineer II

RELX Group
Richmond, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Shift work

Tech stack

JavaScript (Programming Language) .NET Framework Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 C Sharp (Programming Language) Software Quality Code Review PostgreSQL Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) SQL Databases
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Strategies of Testing TypeScript Web Platforms Spring Cloud ReactJS Functional Programming Elastic Beanstalk Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join RX Global and help design, build and operate secure, scalable software products used across our global digital platforms. In this senior individual contributor role, you will take ownership of complex technical challenges, contribute to technical decision-making, and work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes., Design, build and maintain high-quality software across multiple services and components.

  • Produce clear technical designs aligned to RX architecture principles and engineering standards.
  • Build secure, resilient, observable and maintainable systems that reduce long-term operational cost.
  • Lead pragmatic technical decision-making, making appropriate trade-offs between speed, quality and sustainability.
  • Improve test strategy, deployment confidence, code quality and engineering practices across the team.
  • Own the operational health of services, including monitoring, incident response, post-mortems and remediation.
  • Work closely with Product and business stakeholders to deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

Are you passionate about building secure, scalable software products that power global digital experiences? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges while mentoring others and helping raise engineering standards across teams?, Experience delivering large, complex, global or multi-tenant production systems.

  • Strong ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, incremental technical solutions.
  • Experience working in Agile, cross-functional product development teams.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to engineers, product teams and business stakeholders.
  • Proven ownership of production services, including reliability, observability, incident response and continuous improvement.
  • track record of mentoring engineers and improving team engineering capability.
  • Strong proficiency in C#/.NET, JavaScript or TypeScript, React and SQL/PostgreSQL.
  • Experience designing, operating and optimising cloud-native applications on AWS, including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS and Elastic Beanstalk.

Benefits & conditions

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 Pattern

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.

About the company

RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. With a presence in 25 countries across 41 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit http://www.rxglobal.com.

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