Position: Platform Software Engineer
Company: Sunvery
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Overview;**
DISCO is a legal tech software company. Our objective is to own the legal tech market and become the leader in legal as Salesforce has done in the sales technology space. Given the massive growth of data over the last 20 years, poorly built legal technology products have severely decreased lawyers' ability to practice the law.  

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 law, 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:**
As a Platform Software Engineer, you will work on a tight knit team within a federated engineering organization to maintain, extend, and improve highly scalable, data-intensive backend systems serving a growing number of Feature Teams.  You will participate in driving your team’s subsystems towards our aspirational goal of everything ‘well-crafted’.  A great candidate can deliver real customer value while pursuing architecture quality in availability, scalability, interoperability, modifiability, performance, security, and testability.

**What You'll Do:**
- Transform technical requirements into well crafted services & components
- Fully own services & components from planning to coding to testing to monitoring and running them in production
- Work collaboratively inside and outside of your team to deliver business value
- Participate in, contribute to and own architectural designs
- Be part of a continuous improvement culture, identify and address engineering opportunities
 

**Who You Are:**
- 3-5 years of software engineering industry experience
- Coded, designed and communicated internally and externally architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, containerized services, micro-services).
- Experienced designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experienced API and Data Model design and implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems
- Experienced with typicals tools of the software trade:  source control, IDEs, scripting, performance analyzers, logging, metric, and tracing systems
- Adaptable, not wedded to a specific software stack or language; sees these as tools to an end and not the end itself
- Takes special to care and pride to write code which is well documented, maintainable and easily testable, and sees the responsibility of validation and test authoring as co-equal to that of implementation itself
- Understands how to design and develop from a Security Perspective


**Even Better If You Have…:**
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.
- Built and operated distributed systems while embracing the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering.
- Used Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy
Experience with functional programming
- Leveraged cloud-based data storage technologies such as: Relational Databases, NoSql Stores, data caches, etc.
- Selected or extended 3rd party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage while not constraining product and engineering creativity
- Experience designing, modifying, or operating multi-tenant systems

**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, CodePipeline, 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

**Why Join DISCO’s Product Delivery Team:**
We intend to build a multi-billion dollar business and think you should come along for the ride because: 

We were the first movers to a cloud-based platform that has caused mass disruption within our market.
Our CEO is a true market visionary. He graduated with a computer science degree at the age of 15 and followed with a JD from Harvard Law School at the age of 19. His unparalleled insights into the fundamental issues in legal and the potential of technology and artificial intelligence to change our market at its core provide the guiding light for DISCO’s long-term strategy.
We believe that product delivery professionals including product managers, product designers and engineers differ from one another by at least a factor of 10. At DISCO, we only hire the top 1%, pay them well, and with equity, everyone has effectively been getting a raise each and every day. Given our product first mindset, product professionals are very much stars of the show. Our logo, the circle and square, represents the best lawyers and the best product professionals in the world.
We measure product delivery velocity by dollars of revenue per line of code, vs simply lines of code. This drives a very thoughtful and deliberate product design and development process that ensures we’re going to make money when we ship products. We hire many more product managers and designers per engineer than most companies to ensure that our engineers have a disambiguated product intent when they are building.
As a rule, we don’t commit to external product delivery dates as we believe that unnecessarily constrains our creativity from both a product and technology point of view.
At DISCO respect isn’t earned it is assumed. Good humans inherently treat everyone respectfully. This is a very important concept at DISCO.
Given the high caliber of talent, the cutting-edge cloud-based technology stack, and thoughtful and novel product and design approach, you’ll find yourself learning at a rate you’ve not likely experienced in your career. Given that we only hire professionals that are passionate about their craft, you’ll truly enjoy building a great software product and get in the best “career shape” of your life.
Over the next 4 years, we’ll be growing our product delivery organization. There will be incredible growth opportunities along the way.
We use the “2 Pizza Team” organization design where small autonomous teams own a piece of a product or platform and ship software at rates comparable to a very lean and scrappy startup. We achieve consistency across these teams in the areas of design, product-wide use cases and technical concerns through a strategically focused set of overlay functions.
Finally, while we’re an incredibly fast-growing organization, as a rule, we do not work crazy long hours. We believe in continuous product delivery, continuous product planning and design, continuous regular sleep schedules, continuous regular vacation, and continuous fun if you’re passionate about your craft.
If you want to win while getting better than you’ve ever been, come to DISCO.

**About DISCO:**
DISCO is a recognized leader in legal technology. Founded in 2013, DISCO’s mission is to create great technology to modernize the practice of law. Our solutions apply artificial intelligence and cloud computing to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for their clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO for ediscovery, case management, compliance, disputes, and investigations. 

DISCO recently raised $100 million, for a total of $235 million in venture capital. The company’s valuation is $785 million -- a demonstration of investor confidence in legaltech as a category of enterprise cloud computing, and a validation that DISCO is disrupting the broader cloud computing industry. We are using our investment to enhance our cloud technology platform and AI-powered products and services, and to continue to expand our presence outside of North America.

Are you ready to revolutionize the practice of law? Join us!