We are hiring Software Engineers to work on modernising 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 will be a key part of a small, highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and processes. Your engineering team will be based in London. You will also work closely with the existing application team in South Africa, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering AI-powered features.
• Creating performance- and cost-optimised services.
• Able to communicate and take ownership of moderate complexity components within the team.
• Assisting in writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of moderate complexity system components.
• Participating in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.
• Mentoring junior developers on coding best practices (TDD, code hygiene, etc.)
• Operating in various development environments (Agile, Kanban, etc.) while collaborating with stakeholders.
• Demonstrate experience working with Python and/or C# (experience in both is highly desirable).
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, including knowledge of running cost-effective serverless architecture.
• Understand Software Engineering techniques and processes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience.
• Experience with PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Go, JavaScript, Azure Pipelines, and Databricks is desirable, but not essential.
• Experience of participation in software engineering efforts for AI-enabled SaaS products is desirable, but not essential.

We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernise our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis Intellectual Property's flagship AI products, LexisNexis Classification.

The team modernises the application with new features and functions to enrich the users' experience, as well as implementing research from our in-house data science team at scale. This is an opportunity to be a key part of a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and become an essential part of building the new product architecture.

We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core, including Angular, Python, C#/.Net, SQL, AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda, CDK, etc.), Applied AI/ML libraries and frameworks.

About Us:

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property (LNIP), we believe that whenever a person works on a patent and understands the future trajectory of a specific technology, that person has the potential to fundamentally change how society operates. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavours to better humankind.

We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve superior results. By harnessing the latest advances in machine learning combined with expert analysis, LexisNexis Intellectual Property is disrupting how actionable insight is extracted from patent data.

Benefits:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme.
• Travel Season ticket loan.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you.
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to the employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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.

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.