Product Software Engineer, Wolters Kluwer

• 2-5 years of professional Java development experience
• Solid experience with the Spring Framework
• Good understanding of web applications, including exposing REST APIs & RESTful web services
• Experience with SQL databases (preferably MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Familiarity with Agile software development frameworks (e.g., Scrum)
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with experience independently designing solutions for medium-sized features and diagnosing issues in unfamiliar codebases
• A collaborative and growth mindset, with a track record of taking ownership of scope without needing work broken down for you
• Good communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally, including giving thorough, timely code review feedback
• Experience writing unit and integration tests, and building observability (logging, metrics, alerting) into what you ship
• A quality mindset - demonstrated experience producing high-quality code that improves reliability of features
• Demonstrated ability to independently design solutions and produce design documentation
• Comfortable owning production services end-to-end, including incident response and post-incident follow-through
• Experience with, or enthusiasm for, AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code

Desirable

• Brightflag is growing. As a market leader, with a product that customers truly love, we’re scaling quickly. To continue to build and evolve our AI-first product we’re growing our Product & Engineering team. We have an exceptional team and a high bar
• We challenge ourselves with ambitious goals, best practice standards and a drive for continuous improvement. If you want to grow, get better and accelerate your career within a driven Engineering team, Brightflag is the place for you
• As a Product Software Engineer, you’ll be a key contributor to a high-impact, fast-growing team delivering intuitive, innovative software used by major corporate legal departments worldwide
• You’ll own features end-to-end—from design to deployment—across our backend stack and see your work go live quickly thanks to our agile release process
• You will work on new features in an AI-native platform, and you’ll build them with AI-native tools too — our engineering team uses Claude Code as part of our daily workflow, reflecting how deeply AI is embedded in how we build, not just what we build
• In a culture that prizes creativity, accountability, and collaboration, you’ll help shape how our customers experience Brightflag and the value they derive from it
• Own features end-to-end, from design through implementation, testing, release and operation, shipping with minimal rework and meeting acceptance criteria; take ownership of scope without needing a senior to partition the work for you
• Use Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow, to move faster, prototype solutions, and spend more of your time on the engineering problems that need real judgement
• Collaborate closely with Frontend, Backend, QA, Product, and Data Science teams to deliver high-quality features and enhancements
• Contribute meaningfully to the squad’s effectiveness - reviews, sprint planning, improving team tooling
• Translate product and customer requirements into clear technical designs for assigned features, producing lightweight design docs or ADRs and articulating trade-offs clearly
• Contribute clean, maintainable, well-tested code that keeps production defects low, that other engineers can easily build on, and that actively improves the reliability of features and services.
• Build observability, logs, metrics and alerts, into what you ship, and take responsibility for the services you own once they are in production
• Respond effectively to incidents affecting your services, contribute useful post-incident analysis, and close out follow-up actions so issues don't recur (during normal working hours)
• Participate in code reviews, providing thorough and timely feedback and adopting best practices from peers
• Implement product features and build REST APIs using our Java tech stack focused on the Spring Framework, common open-source libraries, and MySQL database
• Contribute to data modelling and reporting using the Elastic Stack, including creating Elasticsearch queries for dashboards and reports
• Work within and help refine our Agile development processes, raising risks and blockers early, and support our ongoing transition toward a fully automated CI/CD environment