15 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as the squad’s first technical escalation point for services and components.
- Facilitate refinement, technical grooming, sprint planning, design reviews, and other team ceremonies.
- Translate product objectives into technical designs and testable acceptance criteria, and decompose epics into implementable stories.
- Design and implement complex features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
- Define and uphold readiness and completion standards covering code quality, automated testing, security checks, and observability.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, branching strategies, and release strategies.
- Drive test strategy, including test-pyramid balance, contract testing, data management, environments, and non-functional testing.
- Partner with TIO on service-level objectives, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident learning.
Requirements
- Experience leading through influence across software design, delivery, and operations, such as as a tech lead, feature lead, or guild lead.
- Strong experience in at least one domain: distributed services, data platforms, or high-throughput web or mobile applications.
- Advanced knowledge of Agile and Lean practices, including backlog refinement, technical grooming, and risk-based planning.
- Experience with test strategy, test automation, CI/CD quality gates, and release readiness.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java/JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET/C#, Python, C/C++, SQL, Linux, or Windows.
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, performance tuning, and data modeling.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms, containers, cloud technologies, observability, and monitoring practices.
- Understanding of secure coding, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and incident response.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
- Country-specific benefits and a commitment to an accessible hiring process.
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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.