Principal Software Engineer – Squad Lead Engineer

Company: RELX Group
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Location: London
Job Description:

Our global team support products education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. We have a very stable product that we’ve worked to get to and strive to maintain. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality., As a Technical Lead, you will act as the technical facilitator and engineering leader for a cross-functional squad, balancing hands‑on software development with leadership through influence. You will help shape technical direction, guide delivery planning, drive quality strategy, and collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, QE, SRE/Platform teams, and partner squads to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions.,

  • Serve as the first line of technical escalation for the squad’s services/components
  • Facilitate team ceremonies (refinement, technical grooming, sprint planning, design reviews) with a focus on flow and outcomes
  • Translate product objectives into sound technical designs and testable acceptance criteria; decompose epics into implementable stories
  • Design and implement complex features; complete complex bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Define and uphold Definition of Ready/Done including code quality, automated test coverage, security checks, and observability
  • Establish/maintain CI/CD pipelines, quality gates, and sensible branching/release strategies
  • Drive a pragmatic quality strategy: test pyramid balance, contract tests, data management, environments, and non-functional testing
  • Partner with TIO on SLOs, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident learning Are you passionate about leading technical excellence while remaining hands‑on in building high‑quality software?
  • Do you enjoy influencing teams, shaping engineering practices, and delivering reliable, secure, and observable solutions in a collaborative environment?,

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Posted: September 27th, 2026