Full-stack Software Engineer - React & Cloud

About Us:

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 the technological landscape. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors.
We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulatory requirements, 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.
LexisNexis Intellectual Property is undergoing an exciting journey with significant career and development opportunities available. We offer a competitive salary and commission structure, along with a comprehensive benefits package. If you are a motivated and experienced software engineer who is passionate about modern technology, we encourage you to apply for this great opportunity.
 

About our team:

We are strengthening our software engineering team to develop new user-centric features for one of LexisNexis IP’s flagship products, PatentSight+.
PatentSight+ enables core IP activities such as competitive intelligence, benchmarking, portfolio optimisation and more, by bringing together highly curated and enriched datasets, cutting-edge analysis tools with streamlined workflows and powerful visualisation capabilities, all within a single platform. You’ll be working in a small highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and process. Your engineering team will be mainly based in the UK and Germany.
This team responds to user and stakeholder needs to bring cutting-edge IP analysis workflows to PatentSight+, allowing users to take advantage of powerful new ML and AI capabilities.
We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core including:
•    React
•    TypeScript
•    Python
•    AWS (such as Serverless, AppSync, CDK)
•    Azure Pipelines
•    GraphQL
 

About the role

We are hiring several Software Engineers to develop new user-centric features for PatentSight+. You will also work closely with other application teams, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and the USA.
 
Responsibilities

• Building upon our existing React UI to create new user workflows.
• Creating performance- and cost-optimised services.
• Helping to build AWS platform infrastructure with CDK, such as NodeJS/Python Lambdas.
• Assisting in refactoring key feature-critical areas of the existing application.
• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of moderately complex system components.
• Participating in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Operating in a Scrum based development environment while collaborating with stakeholders.
   

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in software working with modern React frameworks (using TypeScript/JavaScript)
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, including knowledge on running cost effective serverless architecture.
• Understand software engineering techniques and processes, especially agile workflows such as Scrum.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience.
• Experience with JavaScript, C#/.NET and SQL is desirable, but not essential.

Work in a way that works for you

-We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

-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.

About the Business

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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