Software Developer, Opus 2
Modernising legal dispute practices
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Modernising legal dispute practices
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help build future legal practices by making them more agile, connected and learning organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge of software engineering practices, distributed systems, and API-first design
- Extensive experience with automated tests, CI/CD & iteratively delivering value
- Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance best practices for multi-tenant SaaS and AI workloads
- Familiarity with Vector databases, ideally Opensearch / Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with GraphRag or experience building knowledge graphs
- Familiarity with the latest Generative AI developments such as LLM architectures, fine-tuning strategies, Agentic workflows
- Experience in observability tooling for distributed AI systems
- Understanding of data ingestion and transformation pipelines supporting vector and knowledge graph stores
- Proven ability to own feature delivery end-to-end
- Strong front-end development expertise is essential, with proven ability to translate design and user needs into elegant, high-performing interfaces
- Languages: full stack experience with a focus on Python and Typescript with familiarity with one of Java and Go a benefit
- Infrastructure: familiarity with AWS serverless architecture and dev-ops experience
- 3–6+ years of professional software development experience
What the job involves
- As a Software Developer II at Opus 2, you’ll own features or small projects end-to-end, from planning through delivery and iteration. While you’re a full stack developer, your main focus should be on front-end excellence, as one of your first major projects will center on delivering a delightful and engaging front-end experience.
- You’ll partner closely with Product and Design, providing technical input to shape achievable, user-entered solutions. You’ll bring strong engineering craft, mentor less experienced engineers, and begin to influence broader squad practices around quality, reliability, and delivery speed.
- You will be part of our Amsterdam office working directly with a small local team but collaborating closely with a larger engineering team in Edinburgh, UK, AI team in London, UK and the wider business functions globally.
- A great opportunity to apply AI to a defined and in demand set of customer needs at a company where over 50% of customers are already using AI in our existing workflows
- Own the design, development, testing, and delivery of features or small projects
- Although this is a full stack role, a core responsibility will be driving front-end development to deliver a seamless, intuitive, and visually engaging user experience
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and advocate for engineering best practices
- Balance delivery speed with maintainability, scalability, and reliability
- Partner with Product and Design to shape solutions that are technically sound and user-focused
- Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on coding practices and problem-solving
- Leverage AI across the SDLC to improve delivery (e.g. code quality, test coverage, release speed, observability)
- Evaluate trade-offs of AI-driven solutions and collaborate with Product/Design/Tech Lead to ensure AI use supports user and business value
- Share learnings about effective AI use with the squad
- What Success Looks Like:
- You deliver features and small projects with minimal supervision and strong quality
- You take initiative in solving technical and delivery problems
- You provide valuable technical input in shaping roadmaps and user solutions
- You mentor others, strengthening your squad’s overall technical 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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