About the Business:-
At LexisNexis Risk Solutions Company, we believe in the power of data and advanced analytics for better risk management. With over 40 years of expertise, we are the trusted data analytics provider for organizations seeking actionable insights to manage risks and improve results while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, LexisNexis Risk Solutions serves customers in more than 100 countries and is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit www.lexisnexisrisk.com. LexisNexis Risk Solutions 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. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact 1.877.734.1938 or accommodations@relx.com.
About the Team :
The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Threat Metrix engineering team is an international team that includes experts in device identification, device intelligence, fraud detection, high performance and low latency real time systems, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, machine learning, and data analytics. We are an Agile engineering team using concepts such as Scrum, Continuous Integration, self-organizing teams, and Continuous Improvement.
What this role really is
We already have ~200 engineers who can take a well-specified problem and ship it. This isn't that.
Labs exists to have the headspace that the rest of the org doesn't: time to follow a hunch, dig into something that smells wrong, or prove out an idea nobody asked for. Most of what you chase will be your own idea. Some of it will amount to nothing. Occasionally, and this is the whole point, one of those investigations changes what the company is capable of.
What the work actually looks like
The ceiling Sometimes it's spotting that an existing subsystem can do something far beyond what it was built for, and building the small bridge that unlocks an entirely new class of capability. We've done this. It reshaped the product.
A good month - Profiling a hot path everyone had given up on and clawing back a 20% reduction in system load. Unglamorous, measurable, deeply satisfying.
An honest dead-end - Spending weeks proving a promising idea doesn't pay off, and writing it up so nobody wastes that time again. Here, that's a success, not a failure. If you need a guaranteed win on every project, this isn’t for you.
Who you are
- You've been the person others bring impossible problems to.
- You think in terms of what the machine is really doing - memory, cache behaviour, NUMA, the cost of a syscall.
We expect solid C/C++ experience, mostly because it's the clearest sign
you have that mental model.
- You're a genuine polyglot Our product spans C++, Java, Go, JavaScript, Swift, and the usual scripting. Nobody knows it all; you're the kind of person who lands in an unfamiliar stack and is useful within days.
- You're a self-starter who's also low-ego... you'll happily parachute into another team's code, read it, and earn the trust to change it.
Bonus points
- A reflex to reach for a profiler before a guess.
- Reverse-engineering, debugging unfamiliar systems, and reading other people's code for sport.
- A trail of self-initiated projects - the "I got nerd-sniped and rebuilt it" kind.
- Comfort at the system and network level, not just in application code.
What you don't need
- A CS degree. It probably helps. I don't have one.
- Our exact stack on day one. Show me you can get there fast.
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LexisNexis is a leading innovator of private, secure, and authoritative Legal AI solutions that help legal and business professionals draft full documents with ease, make informed decisions faster, and deliver outstanding work and improved outcomes, all powered by trusted content. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, and is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
