Staff Engineer, Opus 2
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3 days a week in office
Modernising legal dispute practices
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Modernising legal dispute practices
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Share Scheme
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help build future legal practices by making them more agile, connected and learning organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and API-first platforms
- Languages: full stack experience with a focus on Typescript with familiarity with one of Java and Go a benefit
- Infrastructure: familiarity with AWS serverless architecture and K8s
- Frameworks: familiarity with React and Spring
- Proven ability to lead project delivery end-to-end
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills
- Familiarity with scaling systems and operational reliability
- ~8+ years professional software engineering experience
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer at Opus 2, you’ll lead the delivery of large-scale features and projects within your squad while beginning to influence cross-squad engineering practices
- You’ll serve as a trusted technical expert, partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and user focused
- You’ll raise technical standards, coach engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability and reliability
- Own and deliver large features or projects from design through completion with minimal oversight
- Partner with Product and Design to align project delivery with business and user needs
- Lead technical design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Contribute to the wider engineering strategy by influencing best practices across squads
- Mentor senior developers, providing technical guidance and feedback
- Drive adoption of modern practices (CI/CD, observability, test automation)
- Leverage AI to improve quality, delivery speed, and developer productivity across the SDLC
- What success looks like:
- You consistently deliver large, technically sound projects that meet user and business needs
- You anticipate and address technical risks before they become blockers
- You elevate engineering standards across your squad and influence other squads
- You mentor engineers, strengthening technical depth and delivery capability
Our take
Documentation, clients and teams are all multifarious in legal proceedings, and therefore provide unique logistical problems. Opus 2 aims to meet the needs of the modern courtroom by providing digital solutions in an age of remote hearings.
The company provides e-bundles that seek to solve these problems. Whilst courtrooms may use existing video software to conduct hearings, Opus 2 integrates this software with other elements (such as data storage and documentation) in order to streamline the process and ultimately save time for everyone. The company offers virtual workspaces on a secure cloud platform, streamlining legal work for both lawyers and clients.
Opus 2 continually invests in developing its software in the UK and internationally and facilitates this by hiring new talent. A recent partnership with SeeUnity is set to help achieve this.
Kirsty
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Accessible and modern office spaces fully kitted out with Table Tennis and regular company social events
- Contributory pension plan
- 26 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Calm and Mindfulness sessions
- Perkbox scheme
- A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Graham Smith-Bernal
(CEO)Founded LiveNote, the world's most widely used litigation support tool, before starting Opus 2 in 2008.
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