
Software Engineering Lead
RELX
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Philadelphia • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $115,400 - $192,300 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Managing and mentoring of six direct reports.
- Driving and owning the technical strategy and execution for the CK AI Service, including the design and governance of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and API expansion.
- Improving the delivery velocity, reducing bottlenecks and single points of failure, driving standardization, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment as the platform matures.
- Establishing a sustainable leadership model to support the planned division and growth of the team.
- Collaborating with our Data Science team to help drive product road map and feature design forward.
Requirements
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams
- Established track record of creating high-performing, collaborative team environments and reducing knowledge silos
- Ability to remove blockers, manage priorities, and improve delivery velocity across a team
- Experience establishing scalable team structures and leadership models to support growth
- Deep expertise in designing and delivering distributed systems and APIs at scale
- Ability to define and execute technical strategies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability
- Experience with microservices architecture, API design, and system integration
- Proven ability to identify and eliminate single points of failure and improve system resilience
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows
- Understanding of LLM integration and orchestration
- Embeddings and vector search
- Retrieval pipelines and ranking strategies
- Experience building AI-powered APIs and services for production environments
- Ability to govern and standardize AI patterns, including evaluation, observability, and performance optimization
Benefits
- Annual incentive bonus
- Country specific benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsAPI designsystem integrationmicroservices architectureretrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflowsLLM integrationembeddingsvector searchretrieval pipelinesranking strategies
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingprioritizationteam buildingcommunicationcross-functional alignmentstandardizationresilience improvement