Senior Developer, Opus 2
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Legal software & services
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Legal software & services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Plus Loyalty Share Scheme
201-500 employees
Company mission
To design, develop, and deliver industry-leading solutions that transform the dispute lifecycle —empowering legal professionals to maximise the value they deliver to clients.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and API-first platforms
- Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance best practices for multi-tenant SaaS and AI workloads
- Experience 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 with MLOps pipelines, including model deployment, versioning, and monitoring in production
- Proficiency in observability tooling for distributed AI systems
- Experience with data ingestion and transformation pipelines supporting vector and knowledge graph stores
- Familiarity with CI/CD automation for both software and ML workflows
- Experience optimizing cost and performance of large-scale inference and retrieval systems
- Proven ability to lead complex projects and influence technical direction
- Strong mentorship skills and ability to scale engineering standards across squads
- 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
- ~5–9+ years of professional software development experience
What the job involves
- As a Senior Developer at Opus 2, you’ll lead delivery of medium-to-large features and projects within your squad while influencing the broader engineering strategy
- You’ll serve as a trusted technical partner to Product and Design, balancing user needs, delivery speed, and technical quality
- You’ll set high standards of engineering craft, mentor across squads, and help rapidly expand AI workflows across our platform
- 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
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of medium-to-large features and projects
- Partner with Product and Design to align roadmaps with technical feasibility and user needs
- Contribute to squad strategy, influencing decisions on architecture, scalability, and reliability
- Provide deep technical mentorship to engineers across squads, raising standards of engineering quality
- Support operational excellence through strong observability, monitoring, and testing practices
- Actively contribute to wider engineering strategy with Tech Leads and senior leadership
- What Success Looks Like:
- You consistently deliver technically sound, user-focused projects that align with business goals
- You manage technical trade-offs transparently, providing clarity to Product and Design partners
- You raise the technical bar across squads, mentoring engineers and setting best practices
- You proactively improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform
- You are AI literate with the ability to translate business opportunities into safe, scalable, and value-driven AI solutions
- Mentor others in responsible AI use and help set squad-level standards for AI adoption
- Partner with Product/Design to explore and prototype AI-powered features that enhance user experience
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.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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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