Most of our development work is undertaken in Edinburgh, with several engineers working remotely from other countries. You will be based in our friendly office in central Edinburgh. Working hours are flexible and hybrid working will be available. We follow an agile process with small, highly collaborative squad focused on delivery.
Job Overview
WWe are seeking an experienced Software Developer to join one of our Product Squads working on several web applications that provide Audio and Video capture of the court process. Using a novel multi-channel audio recording system as part of Transcript production that is converted for editing and Quality Assurance. 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
- Delivery of work assigned to you on time and to an acceptable quality standard.
- Taking responsibility for and ownership of work, including proactively seeking to unblock yourself, and ensuring that your work progresses through the process.
- Maintain high standards of technical quality in your own work and through reviewing the work of peers.
- Taking an active part in technical discussions, contributing knowledge and experience to ensure good technical decision making
About the product
- Modular architecture for each stage of the Audio Visual (AV) Process.
- Distributed real time applications with front end in HTML5/Web Audio/TypeScript; backend in Go and Python.
- Speech-to-text (STT) done via API to several different providers.
- Real time streaming of data between services.
- Online editor for logging, correcting and enriching the Transcript.
- Integrating advanced signal processing for channel detection + STT.
- Utilising GitHub Actions and SonarQube.
- Deployed to services running on the AWS infrastructure.
- 2+ years’ experience in research or professional software engineering.
- Degree in computer engineering / computer science; ideally MEng/MSc or PhD.
- Proactive attitude and a bias towards action with a client focus and excellent communication skills.
- Enthusiasm for and interest in technology seeking to learn new and better ways of doing things.
- Audio processing awareness (DSP, FFT) an advantage.
- Systems approach to engineering (hardware + software).
- Use of cloud systems and APIs (AWS and transcribe).
- Experience with Git, GitHub Projects, and Slack are 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.
