About the Role

• We are hiring Software Engineers to work on maintaining, modernizing and enhancing a key product, LexisNexis® Classification. This product uses AI to read millions of patents globally and pull the relevant patents into custom categories that are relevant to the specific technology areas users define.
• You’ll be working in a small highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and process. Your engineering team will be based mainly in South Africa but also across Europe. You will also work closely with existing application teams, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and the USA.

Responsibilities

• Ability to contribute to new features.
• Assisting in refactoring the existing application.
• Participate in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Operating in various development environments (Agile, Kanban, etc.) while collaborating with stakeholders.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Python or Go (knowledge in both highly desirable).
• Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Understand Software Engineering techniques and processes
• Knowledge with any of JavaScript, Java, C#/.Net, Azure Pipelines, GraphQL (or similar API schemas) good to have but not essential.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills