Data Visualization Engineer

About Us

We launched Lex Machina in 2011 for patent litigators and are now expanding Legal Analytics to all areas of the law with the help of LexisNexis, our parent company. Since being acquired in 2015, we have become one of the fastest growing businesses in LexisNexis. We have retained our start-up like culture and pace, but are now backed with the stability of a big company. 

The Lex Machina product provides Legal Analytics to companies and law firms, enabling them to craft successful litigation strategies, win cases, and close business. We are the pioneers of Legal Analytics and our award-winning product is used by global corporations such as Google, eBay, Yahoo!, IBM, and Nike, as well as most of the AmLaw 100 law firms like Wilson Sonsini, Fish & Richardson, Greenberg Traurig, and Fenwick & West.  

In joining us you will help us answer: What really happens when companies and people end up in court? 

About the Role

Use your knowledge of JavaScript and React, Python, and key information analytics design and usability concepts to improve Lex Machina's industry-leading platform as we bring Legal Analytics to all legal practice areas and state courts. Apply design patterns and principles to ensure that users get the most complete, accurate picture of a complicated legal data set at a glance. 

As a member of our tight-knit remote product and engineering team, you will work with in-house legal experts, customers, and our front-end and back-end teams to integrate new legal content and improve our analytics.  

Applicants are requested to provide a link to their portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Write code using JavaScript, React, D3, and SVG to display complex legal data in information-rich visualizations for easy customer use. 
• Write code using Python and Pyramid to retrieve and arrange data for best use in visualizations. 
• Design with an eye to accessibility, usability, and positive user experience. 
• Work with our legal experts to integrate new legal subjects and cases into a multi-use front end ecosystem. 
• Spend time learning about new technologies to improve our visualization techniques. 
• Collaborate with Natural Language Processing Engineers to decide how best to incorporate newly extracted information. 
• Your code will be reviewed by other members of the engineering team, and you’ll review their code too. 

Requirements:

• Design and develop information-rich analytics software professionally for 3+ years. 
• Write code in one of: JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc., as well as HTML and CSS/SASS. 
• Arrange complex bodies of legal data into useful and easily understandable visualizations could be a fun project. 
• Work well in a team-oriented organization due to your excellent communication skills and empathy. 
• Bachelor's degree in visual communications, graphic design, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, code academy, or work experience. 
• React or D3 expertise is preferred 
• Python or Elasticsearch experience is a plus 
• PostgreSQL experience is great; SQLAlchemy understanding is fantastic 
• Reviewable code samples or community participation 

Work in a Way that Works for You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● In addition to annual Paid Time Off,