Senior Full Stack Engineer, ThoughtRiver
£75-110k
1+ day a week in office (Central London, Cambridge)
Reviews contracts via a contract intelligence engine
Open for applications
Reviews contracts via a contract intelligence engine
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£75-110k
1+ day a week in office (Central London, Cambridge)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make contracts easy to understand for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- A focus on delivering value to our customers, the ability to work in an ambiguous environment where requirements can change, the ability to get things to done and a realisation that perfect is not possible all within a fast-paced business:
- 5+ years’ experience as a Senior or Staff Engineer
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and Trunk Based Development
- Excellent Python knowledge
- Self-motivated with excellent intuition for what needs to be done and great attention to detail
Desirable
- Prompt Engineering experience, delivering product value with the use of an LLM
- An understanding of the key principles of software design patterns
- Proficient in SQL
- Familiar with Azure or AWS
- Familiar with coding standards and guidelines and a desire to craft beautiful code
What the job involves
- You will draw on your experience of developing Python microservices, delivering a distributed SaaS platform and play a key role in driving the ThoughtRiver platform forwards. Your experience will allow you to influence decisions and mentor other members of your team
- You will be designing, developing and maintaining our containerised event driven microservices
- Our frontend applications are written using React and integrate with our backend web services via RESTful APIs, you will work closely with our Front-End Engineers and assist in architectural decisions which affect both front and backend code bases
- You be able to draw on your experience as a React developer or at least have an appreciation of and keenness to learn front-end development
- Designing, developing and maintaining our REST APIs which underpin our product
- Alongside, you will be assessing new requirements in the form of stories; generating tasks, estimates, impact assessments
Application process
- 1. Apply for the position
- 2. Initial interview with COO to ascertain fit with the company and team (Virtual - 30 mins)
- 3. Meet the CTO to discuss role and review technical knowledge (Virtual - 45 mins)
- 4. Undertake Python technical assessments (Onsite - 45-60 mins)
- 5. Undertake Architecture and Design assessments (Onsite - 45-60 mins)
- 6. Meet the team (optional)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ThoughtRiver is a legal tech company that addresses a fundamental problem for in-house counsels and lawyers: you don’t know whether you need to read a contract without reading it. ThoughtRiver’s contract pre-screening technology uses machine learning and legal intelligence to automate the initial scan and analysis of contracts to produce an actionable recommendation on what to do next with the contract – and why.
Developed by ThoughtRiver’s lawyers and its partners who are domain experts, Lexible is a universal contract description framework that uses 1000s of data points to build a detailed picture of legal obligations and rights within any legal agreement. Lexible comes pre-programmed with thousands of questions posed by real lawyers. It works by first deploying a sophisticated language processing (NLP) engine developed in collaboration with Cambridge University. This allows it to understand the meaning of the words within an agreement. ThoughtRiver can then ask and answer thousands of questions according to their Lexible framework to build a detailed picture of the obligations and rights within the agreement. All of this data is then summarised into clear, actionable advice.
It also aims to promote partnerships with ThoughtRiver to legal service providers who can create new sources of income using its services. For example, by configuring the platform to answer specific questions and identify certain risks, legal service providers can allow their clients to review contracts on the ThoughtRiver platform through a sub-account. This review takes minutes, not hours, which creates an opportunity for a profitable and repeatable new revenue stream. The company aspires to make its technology available and accessible to companies around the world. ThoughtRiver works with in-house legal teams, general counsels and law firms.
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Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Oct 2018
$3.7m
SEED
Total funding: $13.7m
Company benefits
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Private medical insurance with Aviva
- Employer pension with Scottish Widows
- Additional holiday for long term employees
- Birthday holiday and lunch
Company values
- Shift Left - Innovation means taking leaps and trying new things to learn as quickly as possible. We believe in moving tasks, decisions, and responsibilities closer to the beginning of the process and testing often across every aspect of the business to deliver more effectively and efficiently.
- See around corners - Think ahead, possess foresight and a proactive mindset to take initiative that anticipates challenges, opportunities and trends before they emerge. Our goal is to be ahead of the game for our client’s benefit.
- Own Your Impact - Each individual plays a vital role in the success of the team and the company as a whole. By holding ourselves to high standards and taking responsibility for our words and actions, we foster trust, integrity, and reliability. We empower ourselves and our colleagues to make a positive impact, drive results, and uphold the values of our organisation.
- Shows Passion + Purpose - Passion + purpose = positive impact. We aim to positively impact our colleagues, our clients, our partners and the community through our efforts.
- Seek Forgiveness not Permission - Bold ideas require action. We’re a small team with deep embedded trust that we can deliver for our clients. We empower our teams to take ownership, anticipate needs and focus on proactive measures.
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
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Leadership
Jennifer Hill
(CEO)Seasoned COO and business leader with experience growing tech start-ups to profitability.
Tim Pullan
(Advisor & Founder)Associate Partner at Cambridge Management Consulting and Advisor at Circuit Medical Ltd. Previously a Partner at Taylor Vinters and was a Member of the ICT Committee at the British Chambers of Commerce.
People progressing
James has been with ThoughtRiver since early 2022. He started as a BDR and now is an Enterprise Account Director looking after key accounts and bring in new business to ThoughtRiver.
John has been with ThoughtRiver since 2018. During that time, he has had many roles from Lead Application Engineer, Team Lead and now looking after DevOps.
Katie has been with ThoughtRiver for just under 3 years, she started as a Customer Success Manager and is now Senior CSM and Account Manager.
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