Backend Software Engineer.

Backend Software Engineer

This business is an exciting, venture-backed technology startup whose mission is to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of legal advice. Backed by top London based VCs, Forward Partners and Episode 1, this business uses a combination of human and artificial intelligence to review and edit contracts and is building software to fundamentally change the legal industry forever.

This business is creating groundbreaking products that are transforming legal teams. Their work is multi-disciplinary and brings together the best talent in engineering, AI and the law. Their current product uses neural networks to read and comprehend written contracts, assesses whether they adhere to our customers' preferred positions, and then automatically amends them. But their ambitions go way beyond reviewing contracts - they want to build technology that changes the way companies all over the world do deals.

You will help them build software that will allow our customers to create contracts from a library of templates, and quickly review and edit contracts sent to them by counter-parties. You'll help them develop machine learning services which can automatically edit contracts and explain the changes to the user in plain English. And you'll help them build an intelligent contract repository that will help companies save thousands of hours searching for information trapped inside their contracts.

Tech Stack

The frontend is built using React and Apollo, and they use Python web frameworks, such as Django and Flask, to implement back-end services, alongside various other services and libraries such as Celery and Elasticsearch. Everything runs on AWS services, including but not limited to ECS, Lambda and SQS. We use CircleCI to build and deploy, and all of our infrastructure is managed using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end services and API's using Django and similar Python frameworks;
• Build and maintain the Infrastructure our products and components are deployed to;
• Write high quality, well tested code that solves challenging problems;
• Identify and prioritise tasks, taking into account company objectives and goals

Required Skills

• Experience with Python frameworks such as Django and Flask, and Cloud Infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
• Have a background working in a start-up or similar size organisation and are passionate about building high quality products
• Have an in-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)
• Enjoy working in a stimulating, diverse and intellectually challenging environment where collaboration is essential to achieving results.
• Two years experience working in an engineering team and be confident managing your own schedule while achieving measurable results.
• Experience working with Machine Learning/Data science models isn't a pre-requisite, but it is a bonus.

Benefits

• Generous equity package;
• Competitive salary (between £45,000 - £80,000, dependent on experience);
• Flexible working working from home;
• Access to online learning materials; and
• Laptop, office equipment and a personal desk plant!