Most of our development work is undertaken in Edinburgh, with several engineers working remotely from other countries. You will be based in our friendly new office in central Edinburgh. Working hours are flexible and hybrid working will be available. We follow a scrum process with small, highly collaborative squads focused on delivery.
We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to lead the continued development of our AI integration. You will be joining a department that covers the end-to-end of development from design through to testing, deployment, and support.
What you'll be doing
- Keeping abreast of developments in AI technology and looking for ways they can be used to improve our products.
- Gathering requirements from in-house subject matter experts and Product Owners to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software and applications.
- Working with the senior engineering team to design and implement new capabilities within the product.
- Conducting design reviews on existing code with a view to identifying ways to improve performance, security, robustness and maintainability.
- Ensuring new software meets requirements of quality, security and performance.
About the product
- Service orientated microservice architecture.
- Services written primarily in Java17 and Spring with some services written in NodeJS, Go and Python.
- AI service uses external LLMs via AWS Bedrock.
- Frontend built with Typescript and React.
- Backed by several datastores including ElasticSearch, MongoDB and and PostgreSQL.
- Build and deployment using Github Actions and Drone with SonarCloud.
- Deployed to Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure.
- 7+ years’ experience.
- A passion for AI technologies and how they can improve client experiences.
- Experience with prompt engineering.
- Strong knowledge of software design principles and micro-services architectures.
- Strong record of delivering software solutions.
- Strong communication skills.
- Desire to mentor other developers.
- Familiarity with Dev Ops processes and Kubernetes are desirable.
- Experience with Git, Slack, and Jira are all beneficial.
- Familiarity with Linux environments.
Opus 2 is a global leader in the LegalTech space, creating solutions to drive digital transformation in the legal industry. We are the trusted partner of the world’s leading legal teams, with the world’s largest law firms are using Opus 2.
Our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture and our people are our biggest asset. Working at Opus 2, you’ll receive:
- Contributory pension plan.
- 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
- Loyalty Share Scheme.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
- Private Healthcare Scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
- A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
- Regular Company Social Events.
- Yearly Development Retreat
Top Skills
What We Do
Opus 2 provides game-changing, cloud based legal technology and services that enable law firms to build the connected digital practices of tomorrow, today. Our solutions allow firms to transform at a pace that fits their business needs, to streamline and connect the different stakeholders end-to-end and deliver greater efficiency, collaboration and insight. Powered by Opus 2, law firms worldwide are delivering innovative, solution-based services that bring their teams, clients and third parties together in a single connected space, so lawyers can focus on what matters most – creating value, differentiation and deeper client engagement.
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