What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Platform position at DISCO?
Your Impact
The Senior Software Engineer (platform) is a senior engineer responsible for subsystems of a project. They lead epics / initiatives, mentor more junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions. They have a substantial impact on their team and sometimes across teams. They design and develop high-quality, scalable, and innovative software solutions in a SaaS environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, and ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business and its customers
What You'll Do
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship : Provides technical leadership in project teams, mentor and guide more junior engineers, and contribute to technical decision-making.
- Performance Optimization : Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Stakeholder Engagement : Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations.
- Proficient Software Development : Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence. Responsible for System Design & Grooming for features for a subsystem.
- Code Quality and Optimization : Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices.
- Technical Problem Solving : Tackles complex technical challenges, employing a problem-solving approach with innovative solutions.
- Collaboration and Communication : Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution.
- Continuous Learning and Adaptation : Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team
- Technical Documentation : Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information.
- Data Platform Development : Designs, builds, and maintains, scalable and robust data platforms to support analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence.
- Data Integration and ETL : Develops and optimizes ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data integration pipelines. Ensure efficient data flow across various sources and systems.
- Advanced File Processing : Develops extensible file processing pipelines that offer flexible, self-service artifact generation. Researches and evaluates file processing software based on fidelity, reliability, and performance criteria. Models file processing outcomes within an observability framework to provide insights for engineering teams and business leaders. Develops engineering systems that facilitate rapid and minimally manual evaluation of file processors.
- Data Management : Orchestrates scaleout data pipelines that optimize serverless and containerized compute to balance cost, latency, and duration. Contributes to algorithmically intensive data engines operating on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets. Troubleshoots systems, identify root causes, and rectify bugs.
Who You Are
Experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
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Perks of DISCO
About DISCO
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.
Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
