RELX

Principal Software Engineer

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3 months ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and own the domain reference architecture across 2–4 delivery teams.
  • Lead architectural modernization, legacy decommissioning, platform adoption, and cross-team technical change.
  • Design and govern secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AWS solutions, APIs, events, data stores, and integration patterns.
  • Mentor engineers and emerging technical leads while improving engineering practices, knowledge sharing, and technical standards.
  • Provide hands-on contributions through prototypes, reference implementations, complex refactors, and high-risk changes.
  • Drive operational excellence through SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident leadership, resilience testing, disaster recovery validation, and systemic reliability improvements.
  • Lead threat modeling, security reviews, testing strategy, deployment safety, and remediation of technical and operational risks.
  • Co-own the 12–24 month domain technical roadmap with Product and Engineering leadership.
  • Evaluate vendors and third-party platforms based on integration, security, cost, and operational considerations.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and services within a bounded domain.
  • Strong polyglot software engineering background, such as C#/.NET, Java, and JavaScript/Node.js.
  • Experience modernizing legacy architectures into cloud-native patterns, reducing technical debt, and safely decommissioning systems.
  • Experience with systems analysis, software design, development, quality assurance, integration methodologies, and solutions with significant technical and business impact.
  • Experience leading architectural change or measurable improvements in reliability, cost, performance, or platform adoption.
  • Strong software design skills covering SOLID, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, modular design, and maintainable codebases.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems, API and event governance, AWS architecture, infrastructure as code, secure architecture, threat modeling, testing strategy, observability, SRE principles, CI/CD, source control, and automation.
  • Familiarity with responsible AI usage in engineering workflows, including policy guardrails, data privacy, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance covering the employee, immediate family, and parents, with enhanced options available.
  • Group life insurance, group accident insurance, medical screening, and an employee assistance program.
  • Flexible working arrangements and wellbeing initiatives supporting work-life balance.
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption, and other modern family benefits, including a new baby gift.
  • Shared parental leave, study assistance, sabbaticals, long-service awards, and various paid leave options.
  • Subsidized meals in Chennai.
  • Country-specific benefits are available.

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