Senior Software Developer

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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Legal Tech
The Role
As a Senior Software Developer, you will gather requirements, design and implement new capabilities, conduct design reviews for performance and security improvements, and ensure software quality. You'll work on a web application for digital workspaces, collaborating within product squads and participating in the full development lifecycle.
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Description

Most of our development work is undertaken in Edinburgh, with several engineers working remotely from other countries. You will be based in our friendly new office in central Edinburgh. Working hours are flexible and hybrid working will be available. We follow a scrum process with small, highly collaborative squads focused on delivery.

We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to join one of our Product Squads working on a web application that provides digital workspaces to high-profile clients. You will be joining a department that covers the end-to-end of development from design through to testing, deployment, and support.

What you'll be doing

  • Gathering requirements from in-house subject matter experts and Product Owners to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software and applications.
  • Working with the senior engineering team to design and implement new capabilities within the product.
  • Conducting design reviews on existing code with a view to identifying ways to improve performance, security, robustness and maintainability.
  • Ensuring new software meets requirements of quality, security and performance.

About the product

  • Service orientated microservice architecture.
  • Services written primarily in Java17 and Spring with some services written in NodeJS, Go and Python.
  • Frontend built with Typescript and React.
  • Backed by several datastores including ElasticSearch, MongoDB and and PostgreSQL.
  • Build and deployment using Github Actions and Drone with SonarCloud.
  • Deployed to Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure.
Requirements

What we're looking for in you

  • 7+ years’ experience.
  • Strong knowledge of software design principles and micro-services architectures.
  • Strong record of delivering software solutions.
  • Strong communication skills
  • Desire to mentor other developers.
  • Familiarity with Dev Ops processes and Kubernetes are desirable.
  • Experience with Git, Slack, Jira, and Drone are all beneficial.
  • Familiarity with Linux environments.
Benefits

Working at Opus 2

Opus 2 is a global leader in the LegalTech space, creating solutions to drive digital transformation in the legal industry. We are the trusted partner of the world’s leading legal teams, with the world’s largest law firms are using Opus 2.

Our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture and our people are our biggest asset. Working at Opus 2, you’ll receive:

  • Contributory pension plan.
  • 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
  • Private Healthcare Scheme.
  • Loyalty Share Scheme.
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
  • A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
  • Regular Company Social Events.
  • Yearly Development Retreat.

Top Skills

Go
Java
Node.js
Python
Typescript
The Company
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA
250 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Opus 2 provides game-changing, cloud based legal technology and services that enable law firms to build the connected digital practices of tomorrow, today. Our solutions allow firms to transform at a pace that fits their business needs, to streamline and connect the different stakeholders end-to-end and deliver greater efficiency, collaboration and insight. Powered by Opus 2, law firms worldwide are delivering innovative, solution-based services that bring their teams, clients and third parties together in a single connected space, so lawyers can focus on what matters most – creating value, differentiation and deeper client engagement.

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