Software Engineer III - Cape Town at LexisNexis

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a key part of our Agile development squad. You will develop exciting, new data-driven solutions that will shape the future of our information business. You will mentor junior team members, share your knowledge, and deliver solutions using your technical expertise.

Responsibilities

• Providing operational support for big data processes to ensure swift resolution of incidents
• Assisting with implementations of big data software releases and bug-fixes to improve performance, stability and data integrity
• Collaborating with cross-functional technical teams to identify problems, prototype solutions and build creative solutions
• Shaping operational effectiveness through proactive problem management and automation of manual operational tasks
• Exploring tuning and performance opportunities to improve big data processing to help exceed SLA's
• Updating internal support documentation to ensure information and knowledge is available and shared

Requirements

• Demonstrate good Software Engineering experience gained in an Agile development environment
• Show interest and enthusiasm in the latest industry technology language development trends and changes
• Have experience or familiarity with development languages such as, Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX, and .Net.
• Familiarity of industry best practices
• Ability to work well with internal & external technology resources
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex problems in a simple, concise manner
• Show the ability to resolve moderately complex and interesting bug fixes