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Your Impact
The Staff Software Engineer (Platform) leads large-scale projects and is a key contributor to their group's success. They are involved in long-term strategic planning, mentor senior engineers, and are influential in technical decision-making across multiple teams or a department. They focus on implementation and system design, as well as maintaining and evolving DISCO’s distributed data platform.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, guiding engineers, and contributing to technical decision-making. Sets technical direction for large projects or teams, driving innovation, and solving organization-wide problems.
- Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Ownership: Proactively identifies areas of products and systems that currently have problems or will develop problems as well as makes plans to address those problems.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations.
- Software Development: Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated, scalable, high-performance data software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence for our big data platform at petabyte scale. Responsible for the boundary identification, system design and grooming for one or more sub-systems.
- Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices.
- Technical Problem Solving: Addresses intricate technical issues through innovative problem-solving strategies.
- Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution.
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team.
- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information.
- Data Platform Development: Builds and maintains scalable and robust data platforms to support analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence.
- Data Integration and ETL: Develops and optimizes ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data integration pipelines. Ensures efficient data flow across various sources and systems.
- Advanced File Processing: Develops extensible file processing pipelines that offer flexible, self-service artifact generation. Researches and evaluates file processing software based on fidelity, reliability, and performance criteria. Models file processing outcomes within an observability framework to provide insights for engineering teams and business leaders. Develops engineering systems that facilitate rapid and automatic evaluation of file processors.
- Data Management: Crafts and orchestrates scaleout data pipelines that optimize serverless and containerized compute to balance cost, latency, and duration for big-data solutions. Contributes to algorithmically intensive data engines operating on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets. Troubleshoots systems, identify root causes, and rectify bugs.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a substantial focus on big data platforms.
- 7+ years of professional experience with each of the following: Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based services, micro-services, API and Data Model Design or Implementation.
- Experience with Large-Scale Systems: Involvement in developing, monitoring and maintaining large-scale, high-availability software systems.
- Experience designing and developing from a Security Perspective.
- Demonstrated experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) high-availability, high-performance, distributed data processing systems.
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers for efficient, language-agnostic service-to-service communication.
- Proven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Experience with a variety of software stacks including but not limited to, JVM-focused tech stacks, particularly server-side Kotlin and gRPC.
- Deep expertise with both relational and non-relational data stores, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience delivering data platform software solutions (including designing, implementing, and operating) in the cloud.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture principles, including decentralized data management, service discovery, and bounded contexts. Skilled in microservices technology stack, ability to optimize performance, and ensure security and scalability across the system.
- Skilled in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containers. Skilled in implementing RESTful APIs for outward-facing services and using gRPC for efficient internal service-to-service communication.
- Ability to build backend systems that can support future UI/UX initiatives and performance requirements.
- Knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices in software development.
- Skilled at designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of both relational and non-relational data stores, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
- Skilled at analytical abilities and problem-solving, capable of addressing complex technical challenges.
- Skilled in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in SaaS development. In particular, Java/Kotlin, Python, C#, as well as a deep understanding of software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with server management, network configurations, and an understanding of cloud services (like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
- Knowledge of various stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Knowledge of async message or event based dataflow architectures (Kafka, etc).
- Knowledge of design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems.
Even Better If You Have
- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that
- provide operational leverage.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy.
- Experience leveraging observability systems (logging, metrics, traces) to monitor and debug
- production subsystems and generate business level metrics.
- Experience with algorithmically intensive data engines operating on streaming, large, or
- multi-tenant datasets.
- Experience with designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems.
- Experience with tools such as Envoy or AWS App Mesh.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) for automated
- testing and deployment of microservices.
Perks of DISCO
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
- Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Your Impact
The Manager, Professional Services is an integral part of both internal leadership and coaching, as well as actively providing our clients a truly unique blend of technical support and consulting, software expertise, and data handling and coordination. They hire and develop team members, ensure the team responds to client needs in a timely manner with excellence in service delivery, manage escalations with clients and sales, and handle performance management of the organization. They calibrate the team and associated services while continuing to grow and scale the group. Their leadership is a key part of the continued growth and evolution of the DISCO professional services offering.
What You'll Do
- Team Management: Provides day-to-day management and oversight of the London-based Data Operations and DISCO Desk teams, including performance management, hiring, and workload management. Conducts regular reviews of team interactions with clients to ensure quality, identify areas for improvement/training, and improve the delivery of technical support. Manages the team schedule for proper coverage, conducts regular 1:1s with each team member, and supports all administrative needs for the group, including review and approval of time entries. Provides leadership of internal development initiatives focused on driving efficiency, consistency, and quality for the department. Develops and supports a culture of continuous improvement by providing training and soliciting input from team members around key process changes.
- Client Relationship Management and Service Delivery: Supports team member interactions with clients and serves as the day-to-day point of contact for escalations related to service delivery to successfully resolve client issues with a positive outcome. Acts as the client-facing resource for escalation calls, explaining complex technical issues in a client-friendly manner. Builds relationships and works in partnership with Customer Success, Review, Sales, other leaders within Professional Services, and the company as a whole to ensure clients have a seamless experience with our team. Meets and exceeds internal and client expectations with regard to turnaround times and service delivery, with a relentless focus on the quality of client’s experience working with DISCO.
- Process Improvement, Documentation, and Standardization: Leads efforts to create documentation on standardized processes and workflows. Conducts regular review of team interactions with clients to ensure quality, identifying areas for improvement and training to enhance the delivery of technical support. Meets regularly and collaborates with the Product team on feature requests, design, and rollout. Identifies opportunities for improvement, proposes solutions, and participates in implementing the solutions. Analyzes metrics, compiles reports, and presents them to an executive audience.
- Systems and Tools Management: Provides role-specific training for new members of the Data Operations, DISCO Desk and other Professional Services teams. Manages and consults on all areas of systems and tools used by Professional Services, driving improvements forward. Manages the team's billable time and metric review, including review, approval, and feedback on time entries to ensure consistent standards. Participates in month-end billing tasks related to time entry approval.
- Go-To-Market Collaboration and Client Satisfaction: Partners with Sales on client escalations, coverage, proposals, workflow needs, and receive feedback to improve client experience. Works in conjunction with other Professional Services, Customer Experience, and Go-To-Market leaders on departmental initiatives to improve client satisfaction and the quality of our client’s experience.
Who You Are
- 2+ years experience in leading data operations teams of 5 or more.
- 5+ years of experience in the ediscovery industry.
- 5+ experience working in or supporting ediscovery platforms such as DISCO, Relativity, Everlaw, Logikull, Recommind or Catalyst.
- 1+ years experience building, managing and scaling global eDiscovery teams.
- 1+ years experience working for a software company.
- 1+ years experience with Salesforce or JIRA.
- 1+ years experience creating technical documentation 5+ years expertise with digital forensics, analytics/AI, workflow consulting, ECA, or other ediscovery workflow expertise.
Even Better If You Have...
- Consummate problem-solver with a strategic mindset with a self-starting, action-oriented approach and strong sense of urgency.
- Proven people manager who motivates and develops team members, and enables them to become more effective and take on more significant responsibilities over time.
- Excellent client management skills, with a strong consultative approach as well as deep ediscovery subject matter expertise, which makes you effective in guiding and managing clients.
- Passionate about Professional Services, quality of service delivery, and providing exceptional client satisfaction.
- Support and maintain a positive and professional work environment, and instill the same in your direct team members.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to effectively work through tense or challenging client situations, as well as understand and articulate complex technical details while instilling confidence in clients.
- Strong interest in technology with excellent problem-solving skills, with an initiative to learn new software, research technical topics, and craft creative solutions.
Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.
Perks of DISCO
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Engineering Manager, Platform - United Kingdom
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Your Impact
The Manager, Engineering leads, manages, and oversees the engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's SaaS products, ensuring efficient delivery of high-quality software solutions. They manage a team of engineers, overseeing project requirements, task delegation, and ensuring excellence in project deliveries.
What You'll Do
- Project Leadership: Determines project requirements, develops work schedules, and delegates tasks to meet project goals.
- Team Management: Leads a team of engineers, ensuring the highest standards in product delivery. Facilitates cross team communication and coordination, liaising with various stakeholders including management, product managers, and product designers.
- Reporting: Prepares progress reports and delivers presentations to relevant stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Identifies risks and develops contingency plans as needed.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Experience in SaaS environments and familiarity with cloud-based technologies and architectures.
- Experience in leading, managing, and scaling engineering teams.
- Possesses a technical background in software development, ideally with hands-on experience in building SaaS products. Skills in API and Data Model Design and Implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems
- Hands on experience with Kotlin, Java, C#, and Python in an enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team of engineers. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
- Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing technical, personnel, and project-related challenges.
Even Better If You Have…
- Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy
- Experience selecting and extending third party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
- Experience with NoSql data stores, data caches, and other non-relational data storage technologies
- Experience with Federated GraphQL, providing a unified API access across different systems
- Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and understand the principles of event-driven architecture
- Experience with Protobuf and gRPC for defining service interfaces and efficiently serializing structured data.
Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Your Impact
The Manager, Engineering leads, manages, and oversees the engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's SaaS products, ensuring efficient delivery of high-quality software solutions. They manage a team of engineers, overseeing project requirements, task delegation, and ensuring excellence in project deliveries.
What You'll Do
- Project Leadership: Determines project requirements, develops work schedules, and delegates tasks to meet project goals.
- Team Management: Leads a team of engineers, ensuring the highest standards in product delivery. Facilitates cross team communication and coordination, liaising with various stakeholders including management, product managers, and product designers.
- Reporting: Prepares progress reports and delivers presentations to relevant stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Identifies risks and develops contingency plans as needed.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Experience in SaaS environments and familiarity with cloud-based technologies and architectures.
- Experience in leading, managing, and scaling engineering teams.
- Possesses a technical background in software development, ideally with hands-on experience in building SaaS products. Skills in API and Data Model Design and Implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems
- Hands on experience with Kotlin, Java, C#, and Python in an enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team of engineers. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
- Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing technical, personnel, and project-related challenges.
Even Better If You Have…
- Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy
- Experience selecting and extending third party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
- Experience with NoSql data stores, data caches, and other non-relational data storage technologies
- Experience with Federated GraphQL, providing a unified API access across different systems
- Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and understand the principles of event-driven architecture
- Experience with Protobuf and gRPC for defining service interfaces and efficiently serializing structured data.
Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Your Impact
The Senior Software Engineer is a senior engineer responsible for subsystems of a project. They are expected to lead epics/initiatives, mentor more junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions. They have a substantial impact on their team and sometimes across teams. They design and develop high-quality, scalable, and innovative software solutions in a SaaS environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, and ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business and its customers.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, mentor and guide more junior engineers, and contribute to technical decision-making
- Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability
- Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations.
- Proficient Software Development: Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence. Responsible for System Design & Grooming for features for a subsystem
- Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices
- Technical Problem Solving: Tackles complex technical challenges, employing a problem-solving approach with innovative solutions
- Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team
- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information
Who You Are
- 7-10+ years of relevant experience in software development, with a focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications
- Experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Close collaboration in planning and implementing features. They must align backend architecture with front-end design and user experience.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containers is essential
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) for automated testing and deployment of microservices
- Proficient in designing and architecting microservices systems, including advanced concepts like distributed data management and event-driven architectures. Expertise in implementing complex microservices, advanced use of containerization and orchestration, and setting up CI/CD pipelines for microservices
- Knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices in software development ● Skilled in designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Skilled in cloud-based data storage, such as: Relational Databases, NoSQL Stores, data caches, etc
- Skilled in analytical abilities and problem-solving, capable of addressing complex technical challenges
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies, and a mindset geared towards innovation and continuous improvement
- Effective communication and teamwork skills, essential for collaborating effectively in a dynamic and collaborative environment with various stakeholders and team members, especially from architectural perspectives
- Skilled in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in SaaS development. In particular, Java/Kotlin, Python, C#, as well as a deep understanding of software engineering principles
- Skilled in designing and developing RESTful APIs, understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocols, and proficiency in API documentation
- Familiarity with server management, network configurations, and an understanding of cloud services (like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
- Knowledge of various stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, and deployment
Even Better If You Have...
- Experience with developing, maintaining and monitoring large-scale, high-availability software systems.
- Experience with designing and developing from a Security Perspective
- Experience leveraging observability systems (logging, metrics, traces) to monitor and debug production subsystems and generate business level metrics.
- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that provide operational leverage.
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy
- Experience with Contract-first designing and negotiating with other systems
- Experience contributing to technical documentation
Some of Our Technology Stack
- Cloud Provider: AWS
- Languages / Frameworks: Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask, C#
- Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets
- Transport: gRPC, GraphQL
- Persistence: PostgresQL, Redis
- Messaging: Kafka
Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.
Perks of DISCO
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
- Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Your Impact
The Senior Software Engineer is a senior engineer responsible for subsystems of a project. They are expected to lead epics/initiatives, mentor more junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions. They have a substantial impact on their team and sometimes across teams. They design and develop high-quality, scalable, and innovative software solutions in a SaaS environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, and ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business and its customers.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, mentor and guide more junior engineers, and contribute to technical decision-making
- Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability
- Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations.
- Proficient Software Development: Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence. Responsible for System Design & Grooming for features for a subsystem
- Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices
- Technical Problem Solving: Tackles complex technical challenges, employing a problem-solving approach with innovative solutions
- Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team
- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information
Who You Are
- 7-10+ years of relevant experience in software development, with a focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications
- Experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Close collaboration in planning and implementing features. They must align backend architecture with front-end design and user experience.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containers is essential
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) for automated testing and deployment of microservices
- Proficient in designing and architecting microservices systems, including advanced concepts like distributed data management and event-driven architectures. Expertise in implementing complex microservices, advanced use of containerization and orchestration, and setting up CI/CD pipelines for microservices
- Knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices in software development ● Skilled in designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Skilled in cloud-based data storage, such as: Relational Databases, NoSQL Stores, data caches, etc
- Skilled in analytical abilities and problem-solving, capable of addressing complex technical challenges
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies, and a mindset geared towards innovation and continuous improvement
- Effective communication and teamwork skills, essential for collaborating effectively in a dynamic and collaborative environment with various stakeholders and team members, especially from architectural perspectives
- Skilled in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in SaaS development. In particular, Java/Kotlin, Python, C#, as well as a deep understanding of software engineering principles
- Skilled in designing and developing RESTful APIs, understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocols, and proficiency in API documentation
- Familiarity with server management, network configurations, and an understanding of cloud services (like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
- Knowledge of various stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, and deployment
Even Better If You Have...
- Experience with developing, maintaining and monitoring large-scale, high-availability software systems.
- Experience with designing and developing from a Security Perspective
- Experience leveraging observability systems (logging, metrics, traces) to monitor and debug production subsystems and generate business level metrics.
- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that provide operational leverage.
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy
- Experience with Contract-first designing and negotiating with other systems
- Experience contributing to technical documentation
Some of Our Technology Stack
- Cloud Provider: AWS
- Languages / Frameworks: Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask, C#
- Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets
- Transport: gRPC, GraphQL
- Persistence: PostgresQL, Redis
- Messaging: Kafka
Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.
Perks of DISCO
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
- Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to DISCO
Your Impact
The Software Engineer III (Backend) is an experienced engineer that handles complex tasks and contributes significantly to their team's goals. They are expected to start leading small projects or components, while building feature sets / capabilities that are well-crafted and follow Architecture Quality Attributes.
What You'll Do
- Advanced Software Development: Contributes significantly to the development, and implementation of complicated software solutions, ensuring functionality, scalability, testability and reliability. Helps with System Design & Grooming.
- Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices.
- Innovative Problem Solving: Addresses complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.
- Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge.
- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information.
Who You Are
- 5-7+ years of experience in software development, with a demonstrated track record in SaaS or similar environments.
- 3+ years of professional experience with each of the following: Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based services, micro-services, API and Data Model Design or Implementation;
- Experience in playing key roles (for example: development, testing, design, product interfacing, etc) in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Involvement in developing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability software systems.
- Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers for efficient, language-agnostic service-to-service communication
- Understand how to design and develop from a Security Perspective
- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that provide operational leverage.
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy
- Experience with Contract-first designing and negotiating with other systems (UI or Backend)
- Experience contributing to technical documentation
Even Better If You Have...
- Practical understanding of microservices design patterns and principles, with experience in developing microservices using containerized tools like Docker
- Knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices in software development.
- Strong skills with designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Strong skills with cloud-based data storage, such as: Relational Databases, NoSQL Stores, data caches, etc.
- Excellent analytical abilities and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing complex technical challenges.
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies, and a mindset geared towards innovation and continuous improvement.
- Strong and effective communication and teamwork skills, essential for working in a dynamic and collaborative environment with various stakeholders and team members.
- Strong skills in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in SaaS development. In particular, Java/Kotlin, Python, C#.
- Strong skills in designing and developing APIs, basic understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocols, and proficiency in API documentation.
- Familiarity with server management, network configurations, and an understanding of cloud services (like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
- Knowledge of various stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
Perks of DISCO
- Open, inclusive, and fun environment
- Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
- Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
- Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
- Growth opportunities throughout the company
About DISCO
DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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