Senior Backend Software Engineer II *Hybrid in Raleigh, NC

Are you a champion for continuous improvement?

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex technical problems in the field of employer-employee relations?

Lexis Nexis 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.

We’re hiring a Backend Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate the server-side systems powering our AI services—primarily in Python and FastAPI. You’ll own end-to-end API design, microservice development, and cloud infrastructure on AWS EKS. Your deep knowledge of Python, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS (especially EKS) will ensure our AI pipelines run reliably le familiarity with LLMs and RAG is a plus, we’re focused on a candidate who can deliver rock-solid backend code and cloud-native deployments.

• Lead development of high-throughput RESTful APIs and microservices in Python using FastAPI
• Design and deploy containerized services on AWS EKS (Kubernetes) with Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD
• Build and operate monitoring, alerting, and observability pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana etc.)
• Lead incident response, on-call rotations, postmortems, and root-cause analysis to drive continuous reliability improvements
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and vector caching layers for RAG workflows
• Monitor, profile, and optimize services for CPU, memory, and request-rate spikes
• Collaborate in code reviews, define API contracts, and mentor others on best practices

• 5+ years in backend engineering with Python as the primary language
• Hands‑on experience building FastAPI (or equivalent) microservices and Web Socket endpoints
• Proven track record deploying and operating services on AWS EKS (Kubernetes)
• Strong skills in containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and Helm charts
• Infrastructure‑as‑code expertise (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar)
• CI/CD mastery with Git Ops, Jenkins, or AWS Code Pipeline
• Solid debugging, profiling, and performance‑tuning chops in Linux and cloud environments

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.

These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer to our US full‑and part‑time employees working at least 20 hours or more per week:

• Health Benefits:
  
  Comprehensive, multi‑carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing:
  Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time‑off Programs
• Short‑and‑Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

Lexis Nexis 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…