Filevine is a top-rated cloud-based case management solution for small and midsize legal firms and legal professionals.
The Role
As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you'll integrate data from diverse client sources, build ingestion pipelines, ensure data quality, and provide technical guidance to clients while traveling extensively for onsite engagements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.
Our Mission
Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.
Role Summary:
As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will be a customer-facing expert focused on integrating and ingesting data from diverse client sources into our platform. This role demands creativity, resilience, and technical prowess to connect to even the most challenging or unconventional data systems, ensuring seamless data flows that power critical legal workflows. You'll work directly with law firms to build robust ingestion pipelines, enabling them to leverage their existing data within Filevine for better insights and efficiency. This position requires extensive travel (up to 75% or more), including frequent onsite visits to client locations across the country.
Responsibilities
- Design and build custom data ingestion pipelines to connect client data sources—no matter how disparate, legacy, or unconventional—to Filevine.
- Collaborate with clients to assess their data landscapes, identify ingestion opportunities, and implement secure, reliable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.
- Handle a wide variety of data formats and sources (e.g., databases, APIs, flat files, spreadsheets, legacy systems) with a focus on data quality, validation, and transformation.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards critical to the legal industry (e.g., handling sensitive client information).
- Troubleshoot and optimize data flows in production environments, resolving issues related to connectivity, volume, or schema mismatches.
- Provide technical guidance and training to clients on data integration best practices during and after implementation.
- Document pipelines, mappings, and custom solutions while feeding client insights back to the product and engineering teams for platform improvements.
- Perform onsite engagements as needed to accelerate integrations and drive adoption.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer, ETL Developer, or in customer-facing integration roles (e.g., solutions engineering or professional services).
- Strong proficiency in building data pipelines using tools like Python, SQL, Apache Spark, Airflow, or similar.
- Expertise in connecting to diverse data sources: relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), NoSQL, APIs (REST/SOAP), file-based systems, and cloud storage.
- Experience with data transformation, cleansing, and handling unstructured or "messy" data.
- Knowledge of data security best practices, especially in regulated industries (e.g., encryption, access controls, compliance with HIPAA or similar).
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to improvise solutions for non-standard data challenges.
- Strong communication skills to translate technical details for non-technical stakeholders (e.g., firm administrators and attorneys).
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively to client sites nationwide.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
Nice-to-have
- Experience in legal tech, SaaS integrations, or enterprise data migrations.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for data ingestion and storage.
- Background in handling high-volume or real-time data streams.
- Passion for tackling "impossible" data problems in a high-impact, client-driven environment.
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
- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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Top Skills
Airflow
Spark
AWS
Azure
GCP
Python
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Filevine is case management software built for and inspired by real attorneys. As a fully-featured suite of tools, it comes ready to manage every part of a moving case. Assign tasks, upload files or images, monitor staff productivity, and communicate with your client directly from within their case file.
Our software is built on the truth that every law firm functions differently. That’s why Filevine is so customizable. Build new case-type templates, design automatic workflows, and receive customized reports on a schedule that fits your needs.
Accessing your information is never a problem, because Filevine is hosted on The Cloud. To ensure security, your law firm’s data is protected through state-of-the-art encryption on redundant servers. All you need to get started is an internet connection and your favorite web browser.
Learn more at filevine.com.
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