Senior Developer

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. While you’re a full stack developer. You’ll partner with Product, Design, and your Engineering squad to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and user focused. You’ll raise technical standards, coach engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability and reliability.

What you'll be doing

• Own and deliver medium features or projects from design through to delivery.
• Partner with Product and Design to align project delivery with business and user needs.
• Contribute to the squad strategy by influencing best practices.
• Mentor developers, providing technical guidance and feedback.
• Drive quality (CI/CD, observability, test automation).
• Leverage AI to improve quality, delivery speed, and developer productivity across the SDLC.

What Success Looks Like

• You consistently deliver stories that are technically sound, and meet user and business needs.
• You anticipate and address technical risks before they become blockers.
• You elevate engineering standards across your squad and influence other squads.
• You mentor engineers, strengthening technical depth and delivery capability.

Requirements

What we're looking for in you

• Expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and API-first platforms.
• Languages: full stack experience with a focus on Typescript with familiarity with one of Java and Go a benefit.
• Infrastructure: familiarity with AWS serverless architecture and K8s.
• Frameworks: familiarity with React and Spring.
• Proven ability to contribute project delivery end-to-end.
• Mentoring and coaching skills.
• Familiarity with scaling systems and operational reliability.
• ~5+ years professional software engineering experience.

Benefits

Working for Opus 2

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world’s leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you’ll receive:

• Contributory pension plan.
• 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
• Health Insurance.
• Loyalty Share Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
• A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
• Regular Company Social Events.
• Yearly Development Retreat.
• Equal opportunities