Software Engineer

Job Description

 Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence 

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work. 

Overview: The Firm Intelligence team is transforming the way firms leverage their data for competitive advantage. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing a modern application, that delights users, on the Microsoft Azure platform using technologies such as Svelte/React.js, HTML, CSS, C#, JavaScript / TypeScript, and Generative AI. Our customers love us because of the craft and creativity of our engineers. This is your chance to be a key member of a growing team with a market leading company. 

Key Responsibilities:  

• Write clean, maintainable code that is extensible with minimum number of defects 

• Source for expert level knowledge of modern software development techniques and methodologies 

• Provide guidance on modern software engineering techniques and methodologies 

• Establish expertise on the team as the "go to" person for UX/UI related engineering best practices 

• Take ownership of product features from estimates to design and development 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PM, QA) to complete tasks 

• Manage individual task priorities, estimates, deadlines, and deliverables 

• Coach and mentor less experienced team members 

• Shape innovative designs and feature enhancement ideas into the product and design process 

• Own key areas of the product in terms of design and development 

• Deliver solutions that scale 

• Perform other duties as assigned 

Qualifications:  

• 5-8+ years of software development experience with excellent HTML5, CSS, UX framework (Svelte or React.js strongly preferred), and TypeScript/JavaScript coding skills 

5+ years of experience with the following technologies: 

• HTML5/CSS/TypeScript/JavaScript 

• .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web/REST APIs 

• C# 

• Unit testing frameworks (i.e., NUnit, MSTest) 

3+ years of working knowledge of the following technologies: 

• SQL Azure (preferred) or SQL Server, and Microsoft Entity Framework, postgreSQL (preferred) 

• Exposure to (knowledge of) automated test frameworks such as Playwright, JMeter and Cypress 

• Exposure to artificial intelligence technologies as plus 

3+ years of experience with the following tools: 

• GitHub, Jira

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code (preferred) or Microsoft Visual Studio

• Education in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or related experience)

• Experience with CI/CD and automated build and deployment processes

• Experience with GitHub Copilot a plus (but not required)

• Experience with Single Page Application (SPA) frameworks preferred 

• Exposure to any (or all)