Principal Software Engineer

DISCO; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Start-up culture

Open PTO

Growth opportunities

Medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

DISCO is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape and evolve our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design. You will drive the strategy for key architecture quality attributes such as availability, performance, and security, guiding teams to adopt best practices.

You will contribute to platform capability improvements and promote automation through tools and standards, ensuring scalable, reliable data-intensive systems in a multi-tenant environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with high-volume distributed architectures and reliability.
• Ability to design and communicate architecture across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in Domain Driven Design concepts and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture using distributed domain-driven design.
• Lead architecture strategy and guide project teams with best practices.
• Coordinate platform capability enhancements and tooling across data and feature platforms.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

CI/CD automation

Cloud platforms

Architectural patterns

Stakeholder alignment

Security-minded design

Large-scale data

Multi-tenant design

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

CodePipeline

Kafka

Elasticsearch

NoSQL stores

Docker

Job description

• The Principal Software Engineer shapes and evolves our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices, ultimately ensuring the robustness and scalability of our systems
• They influence architectural directions, and through project-embedded consultation
• They guide teams to leverage best practices and design patterns
• Architecture Leadership: Drives the definition and evolution of our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices. Acts as the strategy leader for key Architecture Quality Attributes (e.g., Availability, Performance, Scalability, Securibility) to inform architecture assessments. Provides project-embedded architecture consultation to promote best Practices, design patterns, and informed buy vs. build decisions
• Platform Capability Enhancement: Contributes to the prioritization of platform capability improvements across feature and data platforms. Enhances the capture and communication of architecture descriptions through automation and innovative tools. Shepherds platform-wide strategies, including naming, protocol standards, and design patterns, to ensure ongoing value creation
• Effective Communication: Communicates complex technical concepts effectively in both written and spoken forms, catering to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborates with stakeholders to build consensus when necessary, ensuring alignment on architectural decisions
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry

Benefits

• Start-up culture
• Open PTO
• Growth opportunities
• Medical, dental, and vision, 401(k)

• Experience with high volume distributed technical architectures with a high cost of failure, i.e. focus on reliability and availability
• Experience with design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems
• Ability to design and communicate external and internal architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based Services, micro-services) using patterns and tools such as Architecture/Design Patterns and Sequence Diagrams
• Possesses an understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective
• Knowledge of API / Data Model Design and Implementation, including how to scale out, make highly available, or map to storage systems
• 15+ years of relevant experience
• Skilled using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on automation tools like Terraform, Jenkins, CodePipeline
• Experience with leveraging common infrastructure services like Enterprise Message Bus platforms, configuration services, Toggle management systems, and observability systems like Logging and Distributing Tracing Systems
• Experience with some amount of ‘Big Data’ technologies such as: ElasticSearch, NoSQL Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores
• Knowledge about algorithm development for intensive pipeline processing systems
• Experience with Domain Driven Design concepts and practices such as bounded contexts, event storming, specification by example, etc
• Skilled with designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Knowledge of multiple software stacks
• Possesses an understanding of how to identify, select, and extend 3rd party components (Commercial or Open Source) that provide operational leverage but do not constrain product and engineering creativity
• This role is based out of our London office
• Experience designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems
• Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy