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RELX
RELX

Senior Software Engineer

Richmond Hybrid 5-10 yrs exp Technology, Information and Media 2,775 employees
C#.NETJavaScriptTypeScriptReact

Requirements

Requires strong proficiency in C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and SQL, along with experience in cloud-native AWS development. Candidates must have a proven track record of delivering complex, global production systems and mentoring engineering teams.

Job Description

Are you passionate about building secure, scalable software products that power global digital experiences?

Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges while mentoring others and helping raise engineering standards across teams?


About our Team


RX Global aims to create unforgettable experiences for attendees and exhibitors through organizing events. Innovation, creativity, and collaboration drive the company to offer exceptional services to clients.


About the Role


We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join RX Global and help design, build and operate secure, scalable software products used across our global digital platforms. In this senior individual contributor role, you will take ownership of complex technical challenges, contribute to technical decision-making, and work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.


Responsibilities


- Design, build and maintain high-quality software across multiple services and components.

- Produce clear technical designs aligned to RX architecture principles and engineering standards.

- Build secure, resilient, observable and maintainable systems that reduce long-term operational cost.

- Lead pragmatic technical decision-making, making appropriate trade-offs between speed, quality and sustainability.

- Improve test strategy, deployment confidence, code quality and engineering practices across the team.

- Own the operational health of services, including monitoring, incident response, post-mortems and remediation.

- Work closely with Product and business stakeholders to deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.


Requirements


- Strong proficiency in C#/.NET, JavaScript or TypeScript, React and SQL/PostgreSQL.

- Experience delivering large, complex, global or multi-tenant production systems.

- Strong ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, incremental technical solutions.

- Experience working in Agile, cross-functional product development teams.

- Experience designing, operating and optimising cloud-native applications on AWS, including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS and Elastic Beanstalk.

- Interest in AI-assisted engineering practices, including tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock or agentic AI workflows.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to engineers, product teams and business stakeholders.

- Proven ownership of production services, including reliability, observability, incident response and continuous improvement.

- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team engineering capability.


Work in a Way That Works for You


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 Pattern


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.


About the Business


RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. With a presence in 25 countries across 41 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit http://www.rxglobal.com.

Skills

C#.NETJavaScriptTypeScriptReactSQLPostgreSQLAWSCloud-native applicationsSystem designMentoringAgileObservabilityIncident responseTechnical leadership

About RELX

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 36,000 people over 40% of whom are in North America. ____ Please note that RELX does not contact people through social media to extend job or contract offers, nor do we request money, credit card details or bank account information as part of any project or job application process. Any such request is fraudulent. Please contact your local law enforcement agency if you have been victimized by a scammer. For careers, access https://www.relx.com/careers/why-relx

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