Key skills
CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScriptAIGenAISNSSQSCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Set clear technical direction across teams and support the delivery of shared goals
- Guide the design of secure, scalable, and resilient services, APIs, and data flows
- Contribute directly to high-impact work, including system modernisation and risk reduction
- Coach engineers and strengthen engineering practices such as observability, automation, and incident learning
- Support teams in using AI-assisted development and production AI patterns where they add real value
Requirements
- Experience working at senior, staff, or principal engineer level across multiple teams or domains
- A track record of influencing technical decisions and supporting change at scale
- Experience designing and evolving distributed systems, services, and APIs in cloud environments
- Strong backend engineering experience (for example with Java and Spring Boot), and comfort working in modern product development teams
- A collaborative approach, with clear communication and thoughtful decision-making around quality, risk, and delivery
- Event-driven systems and messaging technologies (for example Kafka or SNS/SQS)
- Frontend development experience, such as React
- Working in polyglot environments (such as TypeScript or Python)
- Containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines
- Applying AI or GenAI techniques in production, such as prompting, retrieval workflows, or large language model integrations
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Python
- React
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- SpringBoot
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Access to learning platforms and encouragement to book up to 10 days focused learning/development time per year
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Long service awards
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RELX Cares 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 employee discounts via Perks at Work