Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Remote or Hybrid options

Job summary

Filevine, a Legal AI company, is seeking a senior software engineer to pay down the tax of slow builds and flaky tests. You will own the path from commit to production across .NET, Python, and Svelte, shaping internal tooling and platform decisions that speed shipping for legal teams.

You’ll expand delivery metrics, improve local development, and bring AI-assisted development into our workflow, influencing engineering through code and tools that teams actually adopt.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CI/CD ownership and pipeline design across multiple ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Own and re-architect the path from commit to production end-to-end.

Skills

CI/CD ownership

Software engineering

Infrastructure as code

Containerization

Internal tooling design

Tools

GitLab CI

Octopus Deploy

MSBuild

Python packaging

JavaScript build tooling

Job description

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform-where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine's rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.

Role Summary:

Every engineer pays a tax on slow builds, flaky tests, manual release steps, and tooling they have to work around. That tax compounds, and it's paid by every team, every day, and it never shows up on a roadmap. This role exists to pay it down, so that everyone building software for legal teams can ship faster.

Today the largest known cost is the path from commit to production: GitLab CI for build, Octopus Deploy for release, across .NET, Python, and Svelte. That's where you'll start, and it isn't where the job ends. The same mandate covers developer platform work, internal tooling, and purpose-built solutions for one team's specific problem. What stays fixed is the measure: how much faster we ship, and how much friction you took out. You'll have a strong hand in choosing the means. This is a senior individual contributor role, and your leverage comes from what you build and who you persuade.

What You'll Do:

• Own and re-architect the path from commit to production, end to end, across three language ecosystems. It’s the largest single cost today and the first thing you’ll take on.
• Build internal tooling that engineers adopt because it’s better, not because it’s mandated.
• Build the platform layer where it pays for itself: self-service environments, paved paths, and shared infrastructure that teams should stop solving separately. Build one-off solutions where a single team’s problem deserves a purpose-built answer.
• Expand our delivery metrics and use them to drive decisions and report progress.
• Improve local development setup and onboarding, and bring AI-assisted development into our workflow deliberately.

What You'll Need:

• Deep hands-on CI/CD ownership: you've designed and rebuilt pipelines, not just consumed them.
• Real software engineering ability. This isn’t a configuration role; you'll write code your peers respect.
• Product sense for internal tools, and the ability to change how engineers work without the authority to make them. You treat engineers as users, you know the difference between what they ask for and what they need, and you earn adoption through better tools, clear writing, and credibility from having shipped.
• Range across more than one language ecosystem at once: several dependency caches, several test runners, one coherent release process. We care that you’ve handled the variety, not that you’ve handled ours.
• Fluency in how software delivery is measured: You know the metrics well enough to instrument them, read them honestly, and use them to choose what to work on. We make decisions on data, not whim.
• Infrastructure-as-code and containerization in practice.

Nice To Have

• GitLab CI at scale (runner fleets, caching strategies, reusable templates) or Octopus Deploy.
• Build systems for .NET/MSBuild, Python packaging, or modern JavaScript build tooling.
• Experience with monorepo tooling, pipeline observability, or security/compliance automation.
• Prior background working as a product/feature software engineer

Compensation Information:

Compensation Information: $190k - $230k

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual's location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine's total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Work Location Expectation:

Work Location Expectation: Remote or option to be hybrid/in-office in one the following locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Salt Lake City

Cool Company Benefits:

• A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
• Short & long-term disability
• Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
• Top-of-the-line company swag

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