We Need…

Dissectologist (noun) : someone who enjoys jigsaw puzzles.

Our senior software engineers don’t shy away from tackling the greatest of obstacles. Indeed, they revel in them and bask - sometimes by themselves - in the satisfaction that nothing is ever beyond their ability to solve.

Armed with an extensive toolbelt of knowledge and experience at your disposal, you forge elegant and efficient code that will spark life into our products throughout their development lifecycle. You take a position within our front-line as you lead and mentor the next generation of engineers to build beautiful and revolutionary products.

You Will…

• Work alongside a team of talented engineers, designers, product managers and quality assurance specialists to build and deploy exciting features and beautiful products.

• Know your fundamentals: you’re able to not just understand all the phases of the software development lifecycle but contribute to it to keep moving it forward.

• Uphold and refine standards relating to the quality, design, performance and security of code across the engineering team.

• Design and create: you write well-thought, efficient, production ready code.

• Become a leader in our product development team by partaking in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews.

• Propose and contribute to new approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof LawAdvisor’s infrastructure as we continue to scale globally.

You Should Have…

• 3 + years of experience

• Extensive professional development, documentation, and maintenance experience across the full software development lifecycle.

• Mastery in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills: you’re a central hub of communication used to synthesise the work conducted between our cross-functional team.

• Experience working with relational databases and efficient data design and access (ORM, DAO, and SQL).

• Experience with Git.

• The ability to steer the development of our team members and continuously bring forward news ideas to help us collaborate, learn and share.

• The ability to learn and become proficient in other programming languages in a short span of time.

Bonus Points…

• Experience with Elixir, Phoenix, and PostgreSQL.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails.

• Experience with React.

• Experience building software for regulated environments.

• Experience in building, monitoring, and deploying modern distributed microservices hosted on AWS.

• Demonstrated containerisation experience (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Specialisation in Disaster Recovery within AWS and/or databases.

• Knowledge in UNIX systems.

• Previous experience in a startup environment.

• Experience working with a remote team.

• Experience working in the legal services industry.