Summary

DISCO's Our fundamental mission includes building a unified technology platform for the practice of law, composed of 7+ products released over the next 10 years. Great technology can solve problems of scale in data, in laws, and in business operations that have distracted lawyers from doing what they went to law school to do. DISCO is fixing the law by automating the parts of the practice that can be automated so that great lawyers can focus on tasks that really do require human legal judgment.

To date, we have substantially disrupted the legal tech market with a lawyer inspired consumer-grade interface and a cloud-enabled technology platform that offers unprecedented performance and cost savings. Thoughtful product planning and product design are core tenets in our “product first” business strategy and culture.

Your Impact

Great products need great architecture. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll help design and build the architecture that scales the business and can be confidently relied on. We are hiring people that approach design from a systems perspective and have the 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 Do

Designing and operating platform-wide services such as:

• Event Bus and Event Sourcing capabilities that provide business and engineering leverage and efficiencies.
• Highly scalable and crazy performant search systems.
• Transactional or eventually consistent stores that provide well-encapsulated domain object semantics.
• Orchestrated scale out data pipelines that can leverage serverless and containerized compute that balances cost, latency, and duration.
• Algorithmically intensive data engines that operate on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets.

Who You Are

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• The ability to design and communicate external and internal architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based Services, micro-services) using patterns and tools such as Architecture/Design Patterns and Sequence Diagrams.
• Experience with some amount of ‘Big Data’ technologies such as: ElasticSearch, NoSql Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores.
• Experience with design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems. (The book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, is a good reference)
• Embrace the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering.
• Experience using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
• API and Data Model Design or Implementation experience, including how to scale out, make highly available, or map to storage systems.
• Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, and not be married to a specific stack.
• Experience designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Even Better If You Have…

• Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy.
• Experience designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems.
• Knowledge about algorithm development for intensive pipeline processing systems.
• An understanding of how to design and develop from a Security Perspective.
• An understanding of how to identify, select, and extend 3rd Party Components (Commercial or Open Source) that provide operational leverage but does not constrain our product and engineering creativity.

DISCO's Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora, 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)

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k)
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company