Software Engineer III, Backend

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.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer III, you will build high-quality software delivering feature sets that delight customers while driving the architecture of one or more subsystems towards our aspirational goal of everything ‘well-crafted’.  A great candidate can deliver real customer value while pursuing ‘high marks’ on these Architecture Quality Attributes: 

Availability, Scalability, Interoperability, Modifiability, Performance, Security, Testability.

What You'll Be Doing

• Be part of an autonomous, cross-functional team designing, building and operating strategic, user-focused feature sets.
• Creating services that enable users to build complex search queries that remain responsive while spanning terabytes of data.
• Building containerized web application services in Python that empower users to work on large data sets in a responsive manner.

Who You Are...

• Possess 6+ years of back-end development experience for large scale web applications. 
• Be able to design and communicate external and internal architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based Services, micro-services).
• Prior experience with building and operating distributed web application systems while embracing the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong skills in API and Data Model Design and Implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems.
• Ability to design and implement a layered application architecture that can be easily changed to accommodate evolving business requirements.

Even Better If...

• You have an understanding of how to design and develop from a Security Perspective.
• You have experience designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• You have experience with some amount of cloud-based data storage technologies such as; Relational Databases, NoSql Stores, data caches, etc.
• You have used Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy.
• You have experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage.
• You have experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.

DISCO's Technology Stack

Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora MySQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, ECS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, SageMaker, KMS, CodePipeline, etc.

DSL-based Search: multiple large scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL).

Event Bus: Kafka and Schema Registry

3rd Party Vendors: Redis, Auth0 for Cloud Identity Federation (SSO, SAML, etc).

AI: MinHash, Word2Vec, Convolution Neural Nets, Algorithmia (Lambda with GPUs) for training, PyTorch, Recurrent Neural Networks, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic Modeling, etc.

CI/CD: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Jenkins, CodeDeploy, GitHub, Artifactory, Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets.

Visibility: ELK Stack for logging, Data Dog, New Relic, Sentry.io

Programming Languages: Python / Flask, JavaScript, C#/.NET, Java.

Transport Mechanisms: Protobuf, Avro, HTTP Rest/JSON

Perks of DISCO 

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical
• Competitive salary
• Flexible PTO 
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company