RELX

Senior Software Engineer I

Cape Town Full time

About the Role

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (.NET + TypeScript), you will play a key role in redesigning and evolving our Legal Project solution. A significant part of your work will involve building new services from scratch while ensuring the continuity and stability of existing systems.

You will work in an international environment, collaborating closely with Product and engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable, and high-performing solutions tailored to legal professionals.

Responsibilities

- Designing and developing new services from the ground up, including reverse engineering and progressively replacing existing PHP applications

- Maintaining, improving, and supporting current applications to ensure stability and performance

- Contributing to architectural decisions and justify technical choices (design patterns, frameworks, infrastructure)

- Ensuring high standards of code quality: resilience, scalability, performance, security, and testability

- Developing full stack features using .NET (backend) and a modern frontend framework (Vue.js currently in use)

- Communicate clearly on technical topics, including to non-technical stakeholders

- Actively participate in agile ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives while performing thorough cross-developer code reviews

Requirements

- Have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

- Have solid experience as a Full Stack Developer, with solid expertise in .NET

- Be proficient in at least one modern frontend framework (Vue.js is a plus), with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies

- Be comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) as part of daily work

- Have good knowledge of PHP, including the ability to analyze and reverse engineer existing codebases

- Have solid analytical and problem-solving skills; structured and concise in both coding and communication

- Have a good understanding of software architecture principles

- Be committed to following best practices: testing, code reviews, SOLID principles, and security standards

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