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LexisNexis Risk Solutions · 4 months ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer II ***Hybrid in Raleigh, NC

Raleigh, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$93K/yr - $156K/yr

5+ years exp

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX Inc., is a leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer II to architect, build, and operate server-side systems for AI services, focusing on API design, microservice development, and cloud infrastructure on AWS EKS.

AnalyticsHealth CareInformation TechnologyInsurTechRisk ManagementSoftware

Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

PythonFastAPIAWS EKSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxDebuggingPerformance tuning

Required

5+ years in backend engineering with Python as the primary language

Hands-on experience building FastAPI (or equivalent) microservices and WebSocket 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, CloudFormation, or similar)

CI/CD mastery with GitOps, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline

Solid debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning chops in Linux and cloud environments

Preferred

Familiarity with LLMs and RAG

Benefits

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

Company

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Glassdoor4.0

LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk. It is a sub-organization of ChoicePoint.

Founded in 2000

Alpharetta, Georgia, USA

10001+ employees

https://risk.lexisnexis.com

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