Distinguished Engineer

Remitly • Raleigh, NC

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About The Position

LexisNexis is well regarded as a content and technology partner to the legal industry. With our leadership in generative AI, we have a unique opportunity to drive innovation and transform the legal-tech ecosystem. This role reports into the CTO, Legal Markets. As a Distinguished Engineer on the Global Technology team, you will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence for high-impact capabilities on the Lexis+ platform. You will partner closely with senior engineering, product, data science, and security leaders to solve the hardest technical problems—especially in areas like GenAI-enabled experiences, scalable platform services, reliability, and modernization—while setting a high bar for quality, performance, and responsible innovation. This role requires a highly resourceful, self-driven individual who leads through influence, deep technical credibility, and pragmatic execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 20+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including technical leadership on large-scale, business-critical systems.
• Proven track record delivering complex, scalable, high-availability products in a global or enterprise environment.
• Experience with large complex systems operating in a cloud environment.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, and DevOps practices.
• Strong proficiency in modern development languages and ecosystems (e.g., Java/J2EE, JavaScript, C#, SQL and related frameworks).
• Demonstrated ability to use engineering metrics (including DORA and Agile metrics) to inform decisions and improve delivery and reliability.
• Expertise in software architecture, performance optimization, and continuous improvement of the SDLC.
• Strong experience with code review practices, testing strategy (including TDD where appropriate), and quality engineering.
• Experience integrating and governing third-party software/services and working effectively with offshore and domestic partners.
• Exceptional communication skills—able to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to lead cross-team resolution of ambiguous, high-impact technical issues.
• Ability to drive change across multiple organizations, balancing business needs with engineering excellence and customer outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with legal tech, content management, and search technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Technical Vision & Architecture Leadership Define and communicate an end-to-end technical vision for platform and product capabilities aligned to strategic business goals on Lexis+.
• Lead architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems; establish patterns and guardrails for scalable, secure, resilient services.
• Drive modernization of critical components (cloud adoption, microservices evolution, observability, developer productivity), balancing near-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Provide technical leadership on build-vs-buy decisions and integration of third-party systems and services.
• Engineering Execution & Delivery (Hands-on Influence) Partner with engineering teams to translate architecture into delivery plans; remove technical blockers and reduce cycle time.
• Lead technical design reviews for major initiatives; ensure designs meet standards for availability, performance, security, privacy, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to critical code paths and reference implementations as needed; raise the quality bar through exemplars.
• Champion engineering rigor: testing strategy, code quality, API design, and operational readiness.
• Innovation & Technology Roadmap Evaluate emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards to keep Lexis+ at the forefront of legal tech innovation, including GenAI and multi-model approaches where relevant.
• Drive proof-of-concept initiatives, prototyping, and pilots to validate value, feasibility, and risk; inform platform and product roadmaps.
• Establish best practices for responsible AI engineering (quality evaluation, reliability, safety, and governance) in partnership with Data Science, Legal, and Security.
• Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration Partner with senior leaders across Product, UX, Data Science, Security, and Operations to align technical investments with business priorities and customer outcomes.
• Influence organization-wide decisions through clear technical narratives, tradeoff analysis, and measurable outcomes.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for complex initiatives and strategic planning.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability Define and drive standards for observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, capacity planning, and cost management across key services.
• Use metrics (e.g., DORA, reliability, performance, quality) to identify systemic bottlenecks and drive improvements across teams.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements relevant to the legal industry.
• Collaboration & Technical Community Leadership Collaborate with architecture teams and senior engineering leaders to align on enterprise standards, reference architectures, and consistent engineering patterns across domains.
• Coach senior technical engineers and technical leaders to strengthen design quality, delivery excellence, operational readiness, and engineering craftsmanship.
• Partner across engineering, product, data science, security, and operations on major initiatives and design reviews to ensure solutions meet expectations for scalability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement by setting high standards and modeling strong engineering behaviors.

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
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level