The Role
Lead design and implementation of features and APIs for the OnitX AppBuilder Platform. Enhance product development through technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with various teams.
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About Onit
We're redefining the future of legal operations through the power of AI. Our cutting-edge platform streamlines enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management and contract lifecycle processes, transforming manual workflows into intelligent, automated solutions.
We’re a team of innovators using AI at the core to help legal departments become faster, smarter, and more strategic. As we continue to grow and expand the capabilities of our new AI-centric platform, we’re looking for bold thinkers and builders who are excited to shape the next chapter of legal tech.
If you're energized by meaningful work, love solving complex problems, and want to help modernize how legal teams operate, we’d love to meet you.
As an Architect at Onit, you will lead the design and implementation of new features and APIs as part of the OnitX AppBuilder Platform Development team. The primary focus of this position will be on enhancing the engine that enables our Products team to build applications that we sell in the Legal Tech market. The ideal candidate will be able to lead the technical direction of both Front End and Back End development as well as provide leadership and mentoring to more junior development and QA resources.
The current tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript and PostgreSQL. We deploy to AWS. We are an agile software development shop and believe in automated testing.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, build and launch features for our products.
- Lead design and use of technology to best solve business problems including performance improvement of existing software.
- Evaluate emerging technologies continually to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices to strengthen development practices and improve productivity.
- Work closely with our designers and project management team to craft well thought out user experiences.
- Work closely with Product Management and provide analysis on complexity and effort required for completion of new features and initiatives.
- Estimate development tasks and meet deadlines.
- Troubleshoot CI/CD issues and maintain an understanding of our deployment architecture.
- Work directly with the support team to troubleshoot and solve issues as part our escalation team and to help more junior resources solve issues they are not experienced enough to solve.
Skills:
- 15+ years of experience using current language(s) for web development.
- Demonstrated leadership in projects preferably including examples in:
- Experience with front-end development and technologies including JavaScript and React is required.
- Dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails.
- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of the SQL language and relational databases. Experience with PostgreSQL is a plus.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts. Experience with AWS, containerization and Kubernetes are highly desired.
- Demonstrated understanding of full cycle development leveraging Agile methodologies.
- Ability to work and develop in Mac/Linux environment.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of engineering in computer science/Software engineering or other similar equivalent disciplines is required.
Benefits & Perks That Support You:
Onit offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support the whole employee at work and beyond:
Health Coverage: Employee and immediate family members.
Time Away: Flexible paid time off and 10 company paid holidays annually.
Family Support: Exceptional paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents, and caregivers. Onit also offers surrogacy and adoption reimbursement.
Income Protection: 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance.
Additional Coverage Options: Voluntary benefits including hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident, and even pet insurance.
Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Flexi, NPS.
Community Engagement: One paid volunteer day each year to give back to the community.
Our Commitment to Applicants
We know that not everyone will check every box in a job description. At Onit, we value diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly who we’re looking for.
Onit Values
Customer First - Customer success is our success. We deliver value, listen, and act on customer needs.
Purposeful Innovation - Innovation fuels our growth. We harness creativity to solve problems and lead with the intentions and expertise.
Win as One - Teamwork is how we win. We are accountable, act with integrity, and communicate openly.
Intentional Growth - Our people are the difference. We create an environment with compelling work, impactful contributions, and career growth.
Top Skills
Agile
AWS
Ci/Cd
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Postgres
React
Ruby On Rails
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The Company
What We Do
Onit is a global leader of enterprise software and artificial intelligence platforms and products for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. Our software transforms best practices into smarter workflows, better processes and operational efficiencies. With a focus on enterprise legal management, matter management, legal spend management, contract lifecycle management and legal holds, we operate worldwide and help global companies and billion-dollar legal departments bridge the gap between systems of record and systems of engagement.
Onit is the only company in our space with two platforms: Our leading no-code business process automation platform, Apptitude, and our business intelligence platform, Precedent. Apptitude allows customers to create, modify and deploy new software products and custom workflows. Onit’s legal AI platform, Precedent, enables our software products to read, write, and reason like a lawyer. Combined, the two platforms enable customers to digitally transform legal operations by automating processes, reducing costs and maximizing productivity with industry-leading cloud-based software.
