Software Engineer

at  RELX

Day in the life:
This position performs complex research, design, and software development assignments within a software functional area and who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You’ll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the secure software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability and experience in leading software development teams
• Interact with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.
• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies
• Work closely with other QA & development team members to understand moderately complex product requirements and translate them into software designs.
• Strong problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.
• Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Resolve technical issues as necessary.
• A good team player
• All other duties as assigned.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in Spring Boot, Micro Services and API experience is a must
• Strong Experience working with databases (Elastic/Cassandra/RDBMS/MariaDB/MySQL/NoSQL)
• Experience in Front End Development using Angular framework
• Experience with Graph Databases such as Neo4J or Apache Tinkerpop and Gremlin is a must
• Experience with all OAuth2.0 flows, tools and framework
• Experience with AWS Services such as SQS/SNS, Opensearch, AWS Lambda, AppSync or GraphQL, Networking
• Experience with Event-based Architecture, Streams, Secure Design, Domain Driven Design
• Experience working with Trunk-based development, TDD, Mocking Services, Building Scalable, High Volume and Distributed Systems
• DevOps pipelines leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins and Git.
• Designed high-availability applications in a multi-tier cloud architecture, including database, service/API, and UI components of the application.
• Extensive experience with emerging and cloud based technologies on AWS knowledge in micro-services architecture pattern and understanding of various technical components supporting microservices pattern viz. Spring Boot, Spring Cloud etc.
• Good understanding of various integration patterns, SOAP/REST protocols, WebSockets, and familiar with XML, JSON.
• Developing applications that integrate with multiple databases, experience using No SQL DBs is an advantage.
• knowledge of architecture design principles spanning application, data, infrastructure
• Proficiency with data manipulation language (including but not limited to SQL and/or MySQL) including optimization techniques
• Ability to interface competently with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.
• Familiar with a GraphDB
• Familiarity on LISP like language / immutability in programming
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Ability to design and work with complex data models.
• Experience setting up and maintaining distributed apps with Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience using applicable tool sets (Eclipse, GIT, Postman, JIRA, Confluence etc.)
• Ability to work well with internal and external technology resources.
• Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies (Agile etc).
• Knowledge of test-driven development.
• Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.
• Ability to complete complex bug fixes and being able to investigate and support complex production issues.
• Good oral and written communications skills.

Education/Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in software development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Related Major

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• Demonstrated ability and experience in leading software development teams
• Interact with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.
• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies
• Work closely with other QA & development team members to understand moderately complex product requirements and translate them into software designs.
• Strong problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc., including diction/terminology and presenting information in a concise and effective manner to clients, management, and various departments using assorted communication mediums.
• Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Resolve technical issues as necessary.
• A good team player
• All other duties as assigned