Software Engineering Lead(m/w/x)

# Software Engineering Lead (m/f/d) **Bonn** | **Full time** **Are you ready for the next step in your engineering career?** **Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products?** **About our Team** We are strengthening our software engineering team to modernise our existing application stack, powering one of LexisNexis IP’s flagship products, PatentSight+. This team keeps the current monolithic stack running while shifting current features into a new, serverless stack by refactoring existing code or adding new features as microservices. This is an opportunity to lead a team that works on modern, cloud native infrastructure and become an essential part of building the new architecture. We expect this team to work across multiple technologies around a core including: * React * JavaScript * C#/.Net * SQL * AWS (such as Serverless, AppSync, CDK) * GraphQL **About the Role** We are hiring several Software Engineers of differing levels to work on modernising the application platform for a key product, PatentSight+. PatentSight+ enables core IP activities such as competitive intelligence and benchmarking, portfolio optimisation and more, by bringing together highly curated and enriched datasets, cutting-edge analysis tools with streamlined workflows and powerful visualisation capabilities, all within a single platform You’ll be the go-to person for a small highly skilled agile team, with ownership over the mission and your development practices and process. Your engineering team will be mainly based in the UK and Germany. You will also work closely with existing application team, as well as with a broader range of stakeholders distributed across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and the USA. As a Software Engineering Lead, you will play a crucial role in overseeing software development within your specific area of responsibility. You will contribute directly to solving technical problems as well as guiding your team to success. **Responsibilities:** * Integrating performance- and cost-optimisation considerations into development work, throughout the entire development lifecycle. * Assisting in requirements gathering, decomposition and implementation of new features, such as a Sharing Service, Smart Search Engine, and a User Data Manager. * Able to communicate and take ownership within the team and across team boundaries. * Helping to build AWS platform infrastructure with CDK, such as NodeJS/Python Lambdas. * Assisting in refactoring the existing application. * Writing and reviewing detailed specifications for the development of complex system components. * Leading in development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews. * Operating in a Scrum based development environment while collaborating with stakeholders. **Requirements:** * Experience working with modern React frameworks. * Experience with C#, SQL and the .Net Core Entity Framework. * Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, including knowledge on running cost effective serverless architecture. * Understand Software Engineering techniques and processes, particularly adapting Scrum and agile frameworks to meet business needs. * Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience. * Experience with Python, JavaScript, Azure Pipelines, GraphQL (or similar API schemas) is desirable, but not essential. **Work in a way that works for you:** We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. 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. * 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.