Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Join the Legal Tech Revolution at Litera

Are you ready to shape the future of how law is practiced? At Litera, we're leading the legal AI revolution. As pioneers at the forefront of legal technology, we're transforming how 2M+ legal professionals work every day at the world's top law firms and corporate legal departments through our cutting-edge, AI-driven portfolio of tools. From intelligent document drafting to predictive analytics, from automated workflows to advanced security governance, we deliver innovative solutions seamlessly within Microsoft 365 and across every device lawyers use. With 30+ years of relentless innovation and the majority of the world's largest law firms as our clients, we're just getting started. If you're passionate about building AI-forward solutions that scale globally and want your work to impact millions of legal professionals worldwide, this is your opportunity to be part of something extraordinary—help us continue revolutionizing legal technology and defining what's possible in the legal industry.

The Opportunity:  Part of a flagship Litera product, this role is expected to work across teams and projects as needed. Extensive knowledge of software eco-systems supporting the products we distribute across our customer base. Responsible for delivering innovative software solutions that transform the legal industry, the Principal Software Engineer will actively contribute to the development of a software application suite and help the teams define and improve their technical solutions, ensuring that they are both maintainable and extensible. They work with the management team to execute strategic goals for the department.

Responsibilities: 

• Active contributor to the codebase
• Lead in designing, coding, testing, configuring, documenting, and debugging software, utilizing technologies, development tools and languages as required for the project assigned
• Collaborate with Product Management, Software Quality Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and other functional teams (e.g. Customer experience, Sales, Marketing), to ensure that solutions are efficient, consistent and fulfill business needs
• Work in an Agile software development environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban), participating in commitment, retrospective and planning meetings
• Attendance during regular work hours and overtime as required
• Participate in requirements reviews
• Refactor existing software
• Apply generally accepted development and quality assurance standards and techniques to assure efficient program logic and data manipulation
• Lead design and design reviews
• Able to independently architect and lead implementation of new software solutions from scratch.  Including activities such as:  Develops project plans, coordinates projects, manages project team activities, communicates changes and progress, completes projects on time and budget
• Move easily to any Litera software team and make an immediate contribution
• Provide technical guidance and supervision to other team members, including the discovery of alternative system and software designs
• Work closely with the Director and Product Teams to ensure adherence to, and continued development of, architecture best practices
• Possesses advanced functional or technical knowledge to complex problem solving and process innovation
• Work with our customers to help solve their software design and operation issues
• Act as liaison with manufacturers and vendors of software and application products, especially with regard to problem diagnosis and resolution
• Able to contribute to design and decision making in all areas
• Software Language Agnostic.  Should be able to pick up a new programming language in a week and apply it with high Confidence.
• Develop rapid POCs to validate that an outcome can be achieved in certain technologies
• Scaffold applications to ensure scalability and re-usability
• Proactive in researching and recommending new technologies

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 12+ years of experience using a modern object-oriented language (example: C#, C++, or Java)
• 6+ years experience with SQL, EF, LINQ
• Some experience with Lucene, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or similar search services
• At least basic knowledge of generative AI technologies
• Stays current on new frameworks and technologies for desktop, mobile and cloud
• 6+ years of delivering scalable solutions
• 6+ years of leading multiple projects successfully through their entire life cycle
• Communication and presentation skills
• 6+ years of experience with performance tuning and scaling for large