Cape Town, South Africa
4 days ago
Senior PHP Software Engineer

Would You Like to Shape Digital Innovation? 
  

Join Us as a Senior PHP Software Engineer! 
  

About our Team 
  

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. 
 

About the Role

As a Senior PHP Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain complex software solutions. You'll collaborate with cross-functional international teams to drive innovation and deliver high-quality products highly favoured by legal professionals. Your expertise will be crucial in solving technical challenges and enhancing system performance. 

Responsibilities 

Collaborating closely with our Product and Data Sciences teams to develop a Legal Risk Quantification product 

Taking part in architecture and technological choices for Front-End 

Maintaining and supporting existing applications. 

Ensuring the quality of the back-end code base (resilience, performance and security) 

Designing and implementing new features across our suite of applications. 

Contributing actively to our Agile rituals 

Performing thorough cross-developers code reviews 

​Requirements 

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or a solid technical background 

5+ years experience in software engineering for web applications

Display strong proficiency in PHP8 (Symfony or Laravel framework)

Experience with RESTful API design and development

Be Proficient in Git for version control.

Have Adherence to best development practices such as unit and functional testing, code reviews, SOLID principles, and security practices 

 
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 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 

 
Working for you 
  

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: 

Medical Aid 

Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover) 

Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy 

Study Leave 

 
About the Business 
  

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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