Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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 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

As a key contributor on our Enterprise Administration team, you'll drive the enhancement and evolution of key features targeted towards our Enterprise customers and their internal administrators. You’ll have an opportunity to drive system design for building new capabilities around usage metrics, reporting, and data access controls and will lead backend development work in these areas. Your dual focus on hands-on technical work and strategic system design will be vital in ensuring the scalability and robustness of our distributed systems. Through your expertise, you will shape the future of our application services, enabling the seamless extension of our product suite and its capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Deliver Software: Owning all aspects of delivery, including writing code, conducting rigorous code reviews and leading technical discussions, ensuring the delivery of high-caliber solutions.
• Architect Systems: Collaborate with staff/principal engineers and drive the design, development, and optimization of scalable, high-performance distributed systems, ensuring they meet evolving business demands.
• Mentor Engineers: Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, instilling a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Who You Are

• Experienced: 9+ years in backend engineering with a focus on Enterprise SaaS products built on big data platforms.
• Technically Proficient: Strong expertise in relational and non-relational data stores like PostgresSQL and Redis, JVM-based tech stacks, including Kotlin and gRPC.
• Systems Designer: Skilled in designing and maintaining a high-availability, high-performance, domain-oriented fleet of GraphQL services
• Delivery-Oriented: Consistently deliver tested, maintainable code for complex challenges.
• Tech-Agnostic: Versatile across multiple software stacks, with flexible preferences.
• Cloud-Oriented: Experienced in cloud-based data platform solutions.

Even Better If You Have…

• Advanced Data Processing: Experience in data engines for streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets.
• Multi-Tenancy Architectures: Experience with multi-tenant system design and operation
• Security Best Practices: Strong knowledge of with security best practices in system design and development.
• Polyglot Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Java/Kotlin and Python. 

Some of Our Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• Languages / Frameworks: Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask
• Transport: gRPC, GraphQL
• Persistence: PostgresQL, Redis
• Messaging: Kafka

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
• Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company