• Job Description

  Req#: R94155

  Are you a champion for continuous improvement?
  

  Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex technical problems in the field of employer-employee relations?
  

  About our Team
  

  LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.
  
  About the Role
  

  The Software Engineer II will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining robust backend systems for our AI-driven products. You will work on scalable services deployed on AWS, integrating with multiple LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. While experience with AI and RAG is a plus, we are primarily looking for strong backend engineers with solid programming, debugging, and system design skills. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions.

  Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs for AI-powered applications.
  • Develop scalable, secure, and reliable systems using Python and modern backend frameworks.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI models and data pipelines into production systems.
  • Debug, profile, and optimize backend code for performance and reliability.
  • Contribute to infrastructure automation, deployment, and monitoring (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Write clear documentation and ensure best practices in code quality and testing.

  Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering (Python preferred; Go, Shell scripting a plus).
  • Strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience with AI/ML, LLMs, or RAG is a plus but not required.

  Work in a way that works for you

  We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

  Working for you

  We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

  - Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

  - Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan - Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

  - Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity - Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

  - Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

  - Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

  About the Business

  LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

  LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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• About the company

  LexisNexis is a corporation that sells data analytics products and various databases that are accessed through online portals, including portals for computer-assisted legal research, newspaper search, and consumer information.

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