7 months ago
Johannesburg, South Africa or Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Perform complex research, design, and software development assignments across software functional areas or product lines.
- Provide input to project plans, schedules, and development methodology for cross-functional software products.
- Design software across multiple systems and translate user or customer requests into solutions.
- Finalize requirements with technical personnel and write or review detailed specifications for complex system components.
- Implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
- Design and work with complex data models and multiple data storage subsystems.
- Train entry-level software engineers and mentor less-senior developers on methodologies and optimization techniques.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud platforms; AWS is strongly preferred, with Azure or Google Cloud also acceptable.
- Strong proficiency with data manipulation language and optimization techniques.
- Strong understanding of normalized and dimensional data modeling principles.
- Strong knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems.
- Expertise in development languages including Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, .Net, and Python.
- Knowledge of applicable tool sets and test-driven development.
- Ability to collaborate competently with technical personnel and team members to finalize requirements.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and a work/life balance-focused working environment.
- Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and study leave.
- Medical aid.
- Retirement plan with disability, critical illness, life cover, and funeral cover.
- Modern family benefits including adoption and surrogacy.
About RELX
RELX provides information-based analytics, research content, and decision tools for scientists, legal and risk professionals, insurers, and governments. Through segments including Elsevier (STM), LexisNexis (legal and risk), and RX (exhibitions), it sells subscriptions, data services, and software platforms used in 180+ countries. Headquartered in London, it is a public company listed in London and Amsterdam.