RELX

Senior Software Engineer

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Tokyo, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, maintenance, and operation of scalable data platforms, pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure.
  • Write performant SQL for data extraction, transformation, analysis, schema design, and query optimization.
  • Develop and maintain APIs and services using technologies such as FastAPI and SQLAlchemy.
  • Own technical design decisions for scalable, reliable, and maintainable data systems.
  • Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and engineers to deliver reliable data solutions.
  • Design and maintain infrastructure supporting data workloads, including containers, orchestration, and provisioning.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve data-system performance and reliability, including incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and raise the team’s technical standards.

Requirements

  • Deep proficiency in Python for building applications, pipelines, or services at scale.
  • Strong SQL skills, including performant query writing, schema design, and optimization for large or complex datasets.
  • Significant experience in a data engineering or backend engineering environment with end-to-end system ownership.
  • Ability to make sound architectural and technical trade-off decisions.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
  • Experience developing and maintaining APIs and services.
  • Experience working with AI-assisted development tools and supporting team adoption of AI capabilities.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative team setting.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours that allow employees to adjust their work times during the day.
  • Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
  • Country-specific benefits are available based on location.
  • The employer provides a fair and accessible hiring process with accommodations available upon request.

Tech Stack

FastAPIPythonSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About RELX

1,001-5,000 employees
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