DISCO
Staff Software Engineer
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Job Description
The Staff Software Engineer (Backend) is an experienced engineer who leads large-scale projects and are key contributors to their group's success. They are involved in long-term strategic planning, mentor senior engineers, and are influential in technical decision-making across multiple teams or a department. They focus on implementation and system design, as well as maintaining and evolving solutions.
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.
At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a substantial focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications.
- Demonstrated experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Experience with and involvement in developing, monitoring and maintaining large-scale, high-availability software systems.
- Experience designing and developing from a Security Perspective.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture principles, including decentralized data management, service discovery, and bounded contexts. Mastery in microservices technology stack, ability to optimize performance, and ensure security and scalability across the system.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containers is essential.
- Strategic level interaction with UI Developers. Works to ensure backend systems can support future UI/UX initiatives and performance requirements.
- Knowledge of system architecture, design patterns, and best practices in software development.
- Skilled with designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Expertise with both relational and non-relational data stores, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
- Skilled in analytical abilities and problem-solving, capable of addressing complex technical challenges.
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies, and a mindset geared towards innovation and continuous improvement.
- Skilled in programming languages and frameworks commonly used in SaaS development. In particular, Java/Kotlin, Python, C#, as well as a deep understanding of software engineering principles. Proven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Familiarity with server management, network configurations, and an understanding of cloud services (like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
- Knowledge of various stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas, including, but not limited to, H-1B, TN, or EAD, and we are not accepting visa transfers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that provide operational leverage.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy.
- Experience leveraging observability systems (logging, metrics, traces) to monitor and debug production subsystems and generate business level metrics.
- Experience in implementing RESTful APIs for outward-facing services and using gRPC for efficient internal service-to-service communication.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) for automated testing and deployment of microservices.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Executive
Location
Austin, TX
Posted
Today
Country
US