Staff Software Engineer, Backend

DISCO; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 183,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance their backend systems and contribute to a transformative legal technology platform. This role involves hands-on technical work and strategic system design to ensure high performance and availability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend engineering and a passion for delivering robust solutions. Join a team dedicated to redefining legal processes through technology, where your expertise will drive significant impact and foster a culture of learning and collaboration. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Open and inclusive environment

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Competitive salary plus RSUs

Flexible PTO

Growth opportunities throughout the company

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in backend engineering with a focus on responsive services.
• Expertise in designing highly available distributed systems.
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational data stores.

Responsibilities

• Engage in coding, code reviews, and technical discussions to ensure quality.
• Lead the design and maintenance of scalable, high-performance systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence.

Skills

Backend Engineering

System Design

Cloud Solutions

Performance Optimization

Technical Mentorship

Multi-Tenancy Architectures

Security Best Practices

Programming Languages (Python, Kotlin/Java)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Relevant Certifications

Tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Terraform

gRPC

GraphQL

PostgresQL

Redis

Kafka

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CS DISCO is aimed at redefining the landscape of legal technology. Ultimately, we seek to enable lawyers to achieve more efficient, data-oriented, and fact-based legal outcomes. We started our journey as a company by focusing on the crucial 'discovery' phase of the legal process. Our initial offering, Ediscovery, focuses on enabling legal teams to achieve these outcomes with incredible efficiency.

The massive data proliferation over the last decades has revealed the limitations of many legal technology products, impacting the efficiency of legal practices. At CS DISCO, we strive to provide solutions to the legal domain that are magical. To do so requires the processing of large volumes of data at petabyte scale, with high availability, while maximizing performance, minimizing operations cost, and also ensuring data security, privacy, and sovereignty.

Our overarching mission is to create a unified technology platform for the practice of law. We envision a suite of products focused on delivering distinctly better legal outcomes with a minimum of human toil and cost. Our technology addresses the challenges of scale in data and enables legal teams to focus on the critical tasks that necessitate human legal judgment.

With a trajectory that has already seen substantial disruption in this market, our approach is underscored by a lawyer-inspired interface and a cloud-enabled technology platform, aiming for exemplary performance and cost efficiency. Thoughtful product planning and design are ingrained in our “product first” business ethos and culture, aligning with the broader objective of enhancing the practice of law through technology.

Your Impact

You will be a key contributor and responsible for both hands-on technical work to improve existing systems as well as guiding long-term evolutions in this space. You’ll be successful by ensuring that the product and its backend systems meet current and future functional and scaling demands. Through your contributions towards both implementation and system design, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our software systems to meet the growing demands of our business, ensuring high availability and high performance.

What You'll Do

• Deliver Software: Engage actively in coding, code reviews, and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality output.
• Architect Systems: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, high-performance, easily modifiable distributed systems.
• Optimize Performance: Continuously enhance system performance, focusing on meeting customer needs using the best practices for designing scalable distributed systems.
• Provide Technical Mentorship: Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
  
  

Who You Are

• Experienced: 10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a focus on building highly responsive, fault tolerant services
• Technically Proficient: Strong experience with building highly reliable, highly responsive services backed by relational and non-relational data stores.
• Systems Designer: Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) highly available, high-performance, distributed systems.
• Delivery-oriented: Proven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Tech-agnostic: Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, but are not tightly coupled to a specific stack.
• Cloud-oriented: You’ve delivered cloud native. software solutions (including designing, implementing, and operating)
• Even Better If You Have…
• Multi-Tenancy Architectures: Experience with designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems.
• Security Best Practices: Familiarity with security best practices in system design and development.
• Polyglot Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python and Kotlin/Java
  
  

Some Of Our Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• Persistence: Sql Datastore, Elasticsearch, and others
• Container Orchestration: ECS, Kubernetes
• Transport: gRPC, GraphQL
• Persistence: Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, PostgresQL, Redis
• Event Bus: Kafka
• Languages / Frameworks: Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask
• IaC: Terraform
  
  

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k)
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunity to be a part of a company 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.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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