Software Engineering Lead

RELX

Software Engineering Lead developing secure and scalable software solutions for scholarly publishing technology products. Leading a high-performing engineering team in a mission-driven global organization.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeNorth Andover • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,400 - $192,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDockerJavaJavaScriptKubernetes.NETPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Providing hands-on technical leadership through coding, reviews, troubleshooting, and support for complex engineering challenges.
Mentor, coach, and develop engineers, helping them grow their skills and careers
Leading the design, architecture, development, deployment, and support of complex software solutions and product features
Defining and communicating technical direction in alignment with product goals and broader business priorities
Partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements, guide discovery, and translate business needs into practical technical solutions
Ensuring software is high quality, secure, scalable, reliable, performant, maintainable, and well documented
Driving strong engineering practices including clean code, code reviews, testing, AI use, CI/CD, and continuous improvement
Leading planning, estimation, sprint execution, and delivery discussions, helping the team balance speed, quality, and long-term sustainability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant software engineering experience, including experience leading engineers or technical delivery.
Experience leading technical decision-making, resolving complex issues, and working across multiple teams and stakeholders
Possess extensive experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, or TypeScript
Understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, scalability, performance, and security
Experience working with AWS and modern engineering tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
Knowledge of Agile ways of working, including backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives
Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
Experience mentoring or line managing engineers, including supporting performance, development, and team growth
A pragmatic approach to decision-making, with the ability to balance technical quality, business value, and delivery outcomes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

country specific benefits
annual incentive bonus

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringprogramming languagesPythonJavaC#.NETJavaScriptTypeScriptsoftware architectureAPIs

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationorganizational skillsdecision-makingproblem-solvingteam growthpragmatic approach