Ready to lead a high-performing engineering squad while still shipping great code?
Want to build modern .NET and Angular services on AWS—and help others level up with you?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case
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About the Role
As a hands-on Software Engineering Lead, you’ll lead a small team while actively contributing to delivery—roughly 60% engineering and 40% people/delivery leadership. You’ll own day-to-day execution, coach engineers, and partner with stakeholders, working alongside a Principal Engineer who sets overall technical direction.
Responsibilities:
Lead day-to-day delivery for a small engineering team across multiple initiatives.
Design, build, and maintain backend services in C#/.NET.
Build and evolve frontend features using Angular and TypeScript.
Write clean, testable, maintainable code and set a high bar for engineering quality.
Champion strong development practices including code review, pair programming, and TDD.
Operate and improve services hosted on AWS, including reliability and performance.
Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
Translate requirements into clear technical tasks using a spec-driven approach.
Mentor and line-manage engineers (~5), supporting growth and career development.
Communicate progress, risks, and timelines clearly to product and business stakeholders.
Requirements:
7+ years’ professional software engineering experience.
Strong, recent hands-on experience with C#/.NET.
Strong, recent hands-on experience with Angular and TypeScript.
Practical experience building and running workloads on AWS.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern source control workflows (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
Comfortable with TDD, code review, and collaborative development practices.
Proven experience leading, mentoring, or line-managing engineers.
Strong delivery ownership: planning, prioritisation, and keeping work on track.
Clear stakeholder communication, including progress updates and risk management.
A pragmatic, early-adopter mindset toward AI-assisted development tools to improve quality and speed.
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