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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Oakland, California, United States

Join a growing, venture-funded startup! We manage petabytes of data and dozens of AWS environments across multiple countries. Our clients use Everlaw to operate on mission-critical and highly confidential data and trust us to maintain a secure, performant, and resilient platform. We take this trust very seriously and are looking to hire software engineers with expertise in these areas to take our software development practices to the next level.

The Developer Experience team is on a mission to drive peak engineering efficiency through streamlined processes and efficient tools, using data-driven insights to inform developer efficiency projects. We have laid out the groundwork to improve developer efficiency, but there is more that we can do. Our company is growing quickly and we are looking to not just keep pace as a developer experience team, but to grow in delivering high-productivity developer tools.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback. 

At Everlaw, our mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and democratic and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.  

This is a full-time exempt on-site position located in Oakland, California. Office-based employees are eligible for a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Getting started

  • We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. A dedicated onboarding mentor will guide you through your first few projects.

  • We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

What You’ll Do

As a member of the Developer Experience team you will build and optimize the tools that enable Everlaw engineers to ship important features and increase their productivity. You will work on improving the efficiency of Java, Typescript, and Python development including builds, tests, and deployments. You will be part of a team of engineers passionate about developer productivity and optimizing engineering workflows.

In your role, you'll...

  • Familiarize yourself with our technologies, workflows, and codebase through extensive training.
  • Collaborate with one or more of the Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Design teams.
  • Build and optimize high-quality developer tools
  • Design large-scale changes and improvements across the frontend and backend codebase.
  • Use developer efficiency metrics to plan ambitious improvements to workflows.

About you

  • You have at least 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, platform or infrastructure engineer or in a similar role or at least 2 years of experience and a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent coursework.
  • You have experience building apps and services in Java, Python, or Typescript.
  • You have experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Github.
  • You have designed, built, maintained, tested, and launched cloud-based software.
  • You have a passion for automation and tooling paired with effective scripting experience and experience building reusable tools.
  • You have excellent communication and collaboration skills that can motivate and move the team towards a common direction. 
  • You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and have a strong attention to detail.
  • You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas for this role.

Pluses

  • You have built and managed Java apps using Gradle & Kotlin
  • You have built and managed React/Typescript apps with NPM and Webpack
  • You have built and supported developer tools including scripts, dashboards, CLI’s, and developer portals.
  • You have experience designing and optimizing build tools such as Gradle, Bazel, Maven and PyBuilder
  • You are an advocate for using metrics to measure developer efficiency and project success and have built them using apps like Databricks, Snowflake, and Grafana.

Benefits

  • The expected salary range for this role is between $124,000 - $181,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
  • Substantial equity
  • 401k with company matching
  • Health, dental, and vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
  • Paid parental leave and sick leave
  • Seventeen paid vacation days plus ten bankable federal holidays
  • Four “Everlawlidays” that are designated days off for the whole company
  • Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
  • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Perks

Pursue Truth While Finding Yours
At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! 
 
We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today. 
 
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