New Job Title: Full-Stack Developer

Sector: LawTech / SaaS

Salary: £60-70,000

Reports to: Project Manager / Head of IT

Location: Hybrid (home + co-working)

Employer: Legal Utopia Limited

Status: FTE

Start Date: October 2024

You must have the pre-existing right to work in the UK and not dependent on visa sponsorship.

Overview:

Legal Utopia is a LawTech business based in London that was founded in 2017. Its mission is to make law accessible and affordable to everyone, and in the 6 years since it was founded, it has successfully developed innovations into commercial market solutions that help identify the area within which legal problems fall, connect people with regulated legal service providers, as well as signpost them to other relevant services.

As part of Legal Utopia’s corporate strategy to deliver on its mission, it is continuing to heavily invest in the development of new technologies and solutions that progress positive engagement between the consumer market and the regulated legal professions.

An experienced full stack developer is sought to join the IT team with frontend responsibility for 3 service applications and its micro-services. The IT team is small and lean, the candidate will take up core responsibility for the frontend development of service applications and be expected to have the knowledge, experience, and motivation to hit the ground running. The successful candidate will be responsible for complying and reporting on IT Governance, including documentation and testing, to the Head of IT. They will also work collaboratively on code peer reviews and streamlining the software development lifecycle. The candidate will report on their tasks, identifying resources, software and API development, deployment, maintenance, bug fixing, and service monitoring to the Project Manager ensuring all work activities and tasks are appropriately and accurately logged with Jira.

It is essential the candidate has, and meets, all the essential criteria for this position and that the candidate is in a position of knowledge and experience to take up the responsibilities outlined below.

Application Process:

Successful candidates must clearly evidence all the essential criteria in their application. This should be provided in a cover letter, CV, and completion of the pre-screening questions. Applications can be made by email or LinkedIn by 17:00 BST 14th October 2024. Sifted and selected candidates will be notified by 20th October 2024 for interview.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead on the development, maintenance, and implementation of our service applications across web and mobile (IOS, Android, ReAct web+subdomains);
• Lead on the management and maintenance of our cloud supporting infrastructure, AWS, and collaborate with the Machine Learning Engineer on its development;
• Lead on all front-end and back-end software development and management;
• Implementation of cross-business systems analytics and APIs to support business information management;
• Support the research and development function with technical implementation
• Manage, update, and maintain multiple staging and production environments across various service applications;
• Take responsibility for all bug reporting, investigation, and patching;
• Lead on technical data management, as well as management of data storage;
• Lead on integration implementation, API development and maintenance;
• Review, plan, and collaborate with colleagues on the implementation of proposed UI/X designs;
• Manage and report on all technical project tickets, as well as the creation of acceptance criteria, PO review testing, staging and production status management;
• Awareness of company policy and working to process, procedure, and best practice in respect of data and cyber security;
• Ability to undertake and take responsibility for the comprehensive documentation (existing and new) of the technology stack;
• Take responsibility for the logging and reporting (including to an independent auditor) of all project activity;
• A position, “can do”, and supportive team member willing to help other team members; and
• Other relevant matters as reasonably provided or direct by the Project Manager.

Requirements:

Successful candidates must clearly evidence all the essential criteria in their application. This should be provided in a cover letter, CV, and completion of the pre-screening questions.

Essential:

• Undergraduate degree in software development/computer science/similar relevant degree;
• 5+ years’ employment and experience in the same role
• Strong knowledge using Vercel, Amplify, Google Cloud, Microsoft App Centre, Azure, Apple Connect, Google Console, Github, BugSnag, Slack, Jira for Software (Atlassian);
• Familiarity with AWS, including Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS
• Strong experience with Django framework, XCode, Terraform, docker, Wagtail and Sanity, as well as the design/development of REST APIs
• Familiarity with Stripe payments gateway
• Excellent knowledge and 5+ years' (employment) experience in using HTML5/CSS/React/React Native/Java/Node/NextJS/TypeScript/Python
• Github contributor track-record
• Capability to build CSS and front-end implementation for multi-device support based on UI/UX designs
• Knowledge of web accessibility and associated tooling
• Experience in software testing best practices (TDD, BDD)
• Experience deploying mobile apps (react native) via XCode and Connect, as well as Google Console;
• Excellent communication, with strong emphasis on transparency and honesty, and tenacity for problem-solving with an attention to detail;
• Experience with authentication (OAuth, OIDC, etc)
• Strong prior experience with IT Governance leadership and/or management, including setting and following best practice testing frameworks and documentation standards.

Desirable:

• Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Master’s degree in computer science/analytics/business systems
• Demonstrable experience with SaaS/Marketplace products on cloud platforms
• Experience with code automation/using GenAI to drive coding efficiency
• Experience with establishing and managing Tableau environment
• Experience working with MySQL or other relational databases
• Experience working on fortnightly sprints and quarterly reporting with an agile approach
• Knowledge of and/or involvement in LawTech or legal technology
• Experience of working in the consumer facing LegalTech companies
• Experience working in start-up/scale-up environments
• Knowledge of user-interface design and/or user-experience principles

Benefits:

• 3% employer pension contribution
• Employee share option scheme
• High-Performance MacBook Pro laptop (transferred to you upon 12-months continuous employment)
• Co-working office space (if desired)
• 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday + bank holidays (England & Wales)