Senior Software Engineer

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer at Brightflag, you will play an integral part in the success of our engineering team and impact how our customers interact with our platform and the value they get from it. We are a scale-up with high-profile customers in the US, Europe and Australia. Our engineers are ambitious and thrive on being given responsibility, expressing their creativity and solving interesting problems to help us build something exceptional. You will take full features from design to deployment across the backend stack. We deploy each sprint output to production which means you will see your work go live very quickly.

Brightflag is growing fast and transforming how the legal industry works. The designs and decisions you make daily will have a huge influence on how our 200+ customers’ legal departments work and how they deal with their external law firms.

 What You Will Be Doing

• Have direct input into the design and refining of the product solutions from the very start.
• Work within a highly collaborative environment of Frontend, Backend and QA Engineers, along with our Product and Data Science teams to bring features to life.
• Work with our Agile development processes to ensure requirements are brought from ideation to delivery with clarity and best practice.
• Break down product requirements into technical designs.
• Step back to consider what's already in our product and how your design fits that. If there is a better fit,  recommend a new approach.
• Contribute collaboratively to the codebase with high quality code, test case coverage and design.. Review designs and pull requests of your teammates, and share improvements more widely through our developer forums.
• Use a Java tech stack focused on the Spring Framework with common open source libraries to implement features and build REST APIs and integrations with other systems. Data is stored in MySQL, Elastic Stack and AWS S3, and we utilise a number of AWS services such as SQS for our event architecture. Docker is used for local development environments and AWS is used for hosting the production and testing environments.
• Work with our Elastic Stack-based reporting module, modelling further data in ElasticSearch store and creating ElasticSearch queries to aid reports and dashboards.

 Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you need:

• 7+ years Java programming experience
• Have worked with the Spring Framework for several years
• Have strong experience in web applications - exposing REST APIs & RESTful web services
• Have worked in Enterprise Software developing solutions with high degrees of technical complexity, considering security, scalability and reliability etc.
• Strong technical design knowledge that has been exercised in previous roles
• Solid experience designing and coding tests (unit/integration tests etc.)
• Highly collaborative; putting team success first
• Have recommended technology improvements and brought technology best practices to life
• Be pragmatic
• Self-motivated and adaptable with a growth mindset

The following are a bonus!

• Experience building SaaS products
• Experience with Elastic Stack
• Experience with React (used in our UI)
• Experience working in a start-up or a scale-up

Life @ Brightflag

We’re growing fast and so is the experience we can offer you:

• A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going.
• The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a rapidly growing scale-up.
• Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them.
• A dedicated, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment.
• Competitive salary. 
• Share options.
• 25 days holidays + 4 company ‘Reset’ days throughout the year.
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection.
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns so you can balance life at home with life at work - come to the office, work at home… or enjoy a blend of both at your discretion.  
• Learning subsidy of €2,000 annually, to spend as you wish, plus study and examination leave where applicable. Our ‘bookworm’ program also enables you to order a book a month.. on us!
• Access to Pluralsight - the on-demand learning platform for tech teams.
• The Tax-Saver or Cycle-to-Work Scheme.  
• Wellbeing program & stipend.
• Home office set-up supports.

We are a diverse and inclusive bunch of people. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who make every day count and strive for constant improvement. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. 

 Location & Eligibility

This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland. Whether that be in the office (as public health guidelines allow), remote from anywhere in Ireland, or a mix of office/remote work in Ireland, you choose what works best for your lifestyle. 

 About Brightflag

Hello, We’re Brightflag, one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the legal world. We’re on a mission to transform legal operations. Our patented AI-powered software combined with a best-in-class Customer Success team empowers corporate legal teams to do better, no matter the starting point. Our SaaS platform was the first to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to legal operations management and has invested more than 100,000+ hours in its development. Using Brightflag, corporate legal teams achieve visibility into their operations, streamline internal workflows, and engage with outside counsel more efficiently. You can learn more about Brightflag Here.