The Principal Software Engineer shapes and evolves our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices, ultimately ensuring the robustness and scalability of our systems. They influence architectural directions, and through project-embedded consultation. They guide teams to leverage best practices and design patterns. What You'll Do Architecture Leadership: Drives the definition and evolution of our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices. Acts as the strategy leader for key Architecture Quality Attributes (e.g., Availability, Performance, Scalability, Securibility) to inform architecture assessments. Provides project-embedded architecture consultation to promote best Practices, design patterns, and informed buy vs. build decisions. Platform Capability Enhancement: Contributes to the prioritization of platform capability improvements across feature and data platforms. Enhances the capture and communication of architecture descriptions through automation and innovative tools. Shepherds platform-wide strategies, including naming, protocol standards, and design patterns, to ensure ongoing value creation. Effective Communication: Communicates complex technical concepts effectively in both written and spoken forms, catering to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborates with stakeholders to build consensus when necessary, ensuring alignment on architectural decisions. Who You Are 15+ years of relevant experience Experience with high volume distributed technical architectures with a high cost of failure, i.e. focus on reliability and availability Experience with some amount of ‘Big Data’ technologies such as: ElasticSearch, NoSQL Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores Experience with leveraging common infrastructure services like Enterprise Message Bus platforms, configuration services, Toggle management systems, and observability systems like Logging and Distributing Tracing Systems Experience with Domain Driven Design concepts and practices such as bounded contexts, event storming, specification by example, etc. Experience with design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems Ability to design and communicate external and internal architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based Services, micro-services) using patterns and tools such as Architecture/Design Patterns and Sequence Diagrams Skilled using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on automation tools like Terraform, Jenkins, CodePipeline. Knowledge of API / Data Model Design and Implementation, including how to scale out, make highly available, or map to storage systems Knowledge of multiple software stacks Skilled with designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP Knowledge about algorithm development for intensive pipeline processing systems Possesses an understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective Possesses an understanding of how to identify, select, and extend 3rd party components (Commercial or Open Source) that provide operational leverage but do not constrain product and engineering creativity Even Better If You Have... Experience designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas. Perks of DISCO Open, inclusive, and fun environment Benefits, including medical and dental insurance Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry Growth opportunities throughout the company 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. At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role. Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
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DISCO is shaping the future of litigation with a unique combination of cutting-edge technology and expert professional services, designed to handle the most complex legal matters. Our award winning, cloud native platform empowers legal teams to instantly process, collect, and search through millions of documents for relevant case data. The documents are heterogeneous, comprising of email archives, chat exports, audio, video, and native office files. Our customers, often handling sensitive and privileged material, rely on us to deliver a platform with robust security controls, strict data privacy, and data residency guarantees that reflect the jurisdictions they operate in. Over 170 engineers make up our global engineering organisation, located in three technical hubs - India, UK and the US. Our engineers work collaboratively to solve complex technical challenges and enhance our platform, all with the purpose of improving our customers’ experience. 💻 The Role We’re now expanding our UK hub and this is an exciting moment to join us as we grow our UK presence. You will join one of our UK-based teams working to enhance our platform. Day to day, you will own complex technical work end to end: breaking down ambiguous problems, making deliberate trade-off decisions, and shipping well-considered code that improves the outcomes of our customers. You will contribute to architectural design, keep an eye on the broader health of the systems you work on, and raise issues, in requirements, design, or code, before they become problems. You will also invest time in the people around you, whether that is through code review, pairing, or helping less experienced engineers grow. As well as working closely with other engineers in our UK hub, you will collaborate with your colleagues based in India and the US. We embrace AI-first development, using AI tooling throughout the engineering lifecycle to move faster and build better software. At the same time, our engineers own what they ship: every service running in production is the direct responsibility of the team behind it. 🛠️ Our Stack AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kafka, Temporal, Datadog, Terraform, gRPC, GraphQL, Kotlin 📋 You Should Apply If You have strong demonstrable experience and passion for backend development like working together in multidisciplinary teams to deliver solutions for customers are proficient in designing and architecting microservices systems, including distributed data management and event-driven architectures are skilled in designing and operating containerised software hosted in a Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) have experience with cloud-based data storage, such as: Relational Databases, NoSQL Stores, data caches, etc have experience writing strongly-typed languages in the Java family (Java, Scala, Kotlin) Tip for candidates: If you’re unsure whether to apply… do. We know great people don't always tick every box. ✨ Would Be Amazing If You Have Any Experience with petabyte-scale, high-availability software systems writing software for regulated industries 🌟 What We Can Offer You £90 to £114 + performance related bonus + Equity Two days per week, from our modern London office (we ❤ ️ the breakfast) Opportunity to share in the success of the company with equity RSU grants Your own personalised growth development plan Benefits : Comprehensive Health Cover: Private Medical Insurance with AXA Health (fully company-paid for employees, zero excess) and Private Dental Insurance via Bupa. Both are active on day one! Robust Financial Security: Peace of mind with Group Life Assurance (4x your basic salary) and Group Income Protection (75% of basic salary after 26 weeks of illness/injury). Smart Retirement Savings: Access to a company pension scheme with an optional Salary Sacrifice program via Workday to maximize your savings. Wellness & Lifestyle Support: Annual allowances for health assessments (up to £275/year) , vaccinations (up to £125/year) , and optician/eye test reimbursements. 24/7 Care Ecosystem: Total well-being support with unlimited 24/7 digital GP access via Doctor at Hand , a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) , and specialized legal/bereavement counseling helplines. Authorization to Work in the UK: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas. 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. 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. At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role. 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.
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