Senior Software Engineer II
LexisNexis7 months ago
Johannesburg, South Africa or Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Interface with technical personnel and team members to finalize requirements.
- Write and review detailed specifications for complex system components.
- Translate complex product requirements into software designs across multiple systems.
- Implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Agile and Waterfall development environments.
- 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.
- Talk to users and customers and translate their requests into software solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- BS in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS; Azure or Google Cloud experience is 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 finalize requirements.
Benefits
- Healthy work/life balance and wellbeing initiatives.
- Shared parental leave and modern family benefits including adoption and surrogacy support.
- Study assistance and study leave.
- Flexible working hours.
- Medical aid.
- Retirement plan with disability, critical illness, life cover, and funeral cover benefits.
- Country-specific benefits and an accessible hiring process with accommodation support.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis builds research, content, and workflow software for legal, regulatory, and business professionals, including the Lexis+ platform and AI‑assisted drafting and analytics tools. It sells subscriptions and licenses to primary law, news, and practical guidance, plus SaaS products for litigation, compliance, and practice management used by law firms, corporate legal, governments, and universities. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in New York City, it is part of RELX and serves customers in 150+ countries.