Virtual Pricing Director is hiring a Back End Engineer - working in Node.js and other languages - to redesign and implement its new Legal Tech back end and data platform.
Our software empowers a wide audience within law firms to swiftly produce consistently high quality data-driven pricing proposals that profitably deliver on clients' expectations of pricing transparency and pricing certainty. We achieve this with a best in class data management and workflow platform, and a compelling focus on UI/UX.
We have a proven MVP, the best-recognised brand and strong demand. Now embarking on our third product release, you will design and build out an entirely new data structure and back end. You will be establishing data pipelines, representing data for BI and reporting, and building comprehensive back end capabilities. Your work will go on to manifest new workflow management capabilities, and to bring structure to unstructured data.
The domain entails data-intensive services where security, data integrity and uptime are key. This presents lots of interesting challenges as we build and integrate our technology. We offer considerable freedom in technology choice and approach. There are big plans and lots to accomplish.
Upcoming projects
- Exploring, innovating and creating IP
- Designing and implementing new data structures and logic
- New back end for modular BI and reporting products
- New API and data integration pipelines
- Designing operational AWS infrastructure
- Automating quality, CI/CD, and shaping a DevOps culture
- Supporting dialogue with customers
- Exploring GraphQL
- Upholding ISO27001
- Preparing for explorations in machine learning
We're looking for
- Someone ready to shape on the back end and data solution
- Strong grounding in Computer Science, Data Science or Mathematics, through formal study - or equivalent knowledge
- Deep, technical, software design and coding skills - accrued in a modern web back end context
- Technology agnostic and adept with Node.js and strong SQL
- Ability to build modern microservice-based systems that scale
- Ability to unpack complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices
- A collaborative, adaptable, user-centered approach
- You may also bring - or like to gain - interests around knowledge management, data science, NLP or machine learning
- Someone considering remote, Senior or Lead level, back end jobs such as: Back End Engineer | Back End Developer | Microservices Developer | Lead Software Engineer | Node.js Developer | Node.js Engineer etc.
Anticipated ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence
Node.js | optionally some Python, Go, Rust or similar | PostgreSQL | GraphQL | AWS | ML | TDD | Agile
Salary and benefits
- £60,000 - £90,000+ we're keeping an open mind
- Share scheme for founding team members (once proven value to the business)
- 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday
- Family-friendly and flexible culture - tell us what you need
- Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications
About us
Virtual Pricing Director has developed groundbreaking software to assist law firms to understand and price their fees, be that £10k or £10m. We are the authority for legal pricing and our software has attracted the attention of the largest firms in numerous countries. We're now bringing our development team together, offering a culture where you will work under your own initiative towards common goals. It's an opportunity to be a formative team member, to help shape our collaborative culture and methods, and to grow and improve together. Virtual Pricing Director is a privately-owned venture, founded by Burcher Jennings LLP and Validatum.
Location: fully remote, within the UK
Even if your CV isn't ready, please talk with Vittoria at techfolk to find out more:
0117 318 2447 | hello@techfolk.co.uk | @we_are_techfolk
RECRUITERS: Virtual Pricing Director has selected techfolk as its recruitment partner for this position and cold calling or speculative applications are not welcomed.