Lead Back End Engineer

DraftWise; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to have a significant impact on technology, product development, and company culture. You'll work with a talented engineering team to implement exciting features and enhance platform scalability. With a focus on Java and a variety of modern tools, this position is perfect for those who thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about building high-quality products. Enjoy the flexibility of an all-remote work style while contributing to the disruption of the legal industry.

Benefits

Equity plan

Competitive salary

Private medical care

New laptop

Work-from-home stipend

Generous PTO / sick leave

Opportunity to lead company initiatives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with a focus on Java.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and experience with data-intensive applications.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of features and make architectural decisions.
• Work on implementing new features and optimizing performance.

Skills

Java

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Tools

Postgres

ElasticSearch

Docker

AWS

Gradle

Dropwizard

Dagger

jOOQ

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to join our team. As an early team member you will have a broad ownership and impact on the technology, the product, and our culture. You will work alongside a first-rate engineering team on implementing exciting new features and making the platform more scalable and performant.

We have challenges at all levels of the stack, from building beautiful web technology and training NLP models to optimizing Postgres and ElasticSearch queries to deal with an ever-growing scale. We have a heavy JVM footprint and are fans of gradle, Dropwizard, Dagger, jOOQ, Docker, Prometheus and Grafana.

We’d love for you to take ownership of features, write performant, elegant code and make architectural decisions.

What we value

• Strong communication skills in an open environment.
• Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• Interest in working in a dynamic environment with dynamic objectives.
• Individual autonomy and ownership, building quality products.
• Being open to giving and receiving feedback.

About You

We're looking for engineers who have:

• A passion for shipping high-quality product that delights users
• Extensive experience in Java
• Interest in the data products space, and a love of building tools that empower lawyers to do more
• Interest and curiosity about the bigger picture of building a company, including go-to-market, customer development, people, and marketing
• Interest in helping us build an engineering organization
• Interest in ownership and autonomy
• 5+ years as a professional software engineer
• Time Zones: GMT-08:00 to GMT+04:00, but flexible

It's also great if you have:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Worked with elements in our tech stack:
  • Product: Java 21, JOOQ, DropWizard, Dagger
  • Data: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Tensoflow/Keras
  • DevOps: AWS, On-Premise
• Experience in building, deploying, maintaining deployment infrastructure
• Experience building data-intensive applications, such as NLP, search and indexing, and data processing
• Interest in being involved in engineering design decisions

What we offer

• All-remote work style, work anywhere. Ideally within UTC+4 to UTC-7
• Equity plan
• Competitive salary
• Private medical care
• New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Opportunity to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world