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Opus 2

Senior Developer

Edinburgh , United Kingdom
full-time

AI overview

Lead the development of medium-to-large features while mentoring engineers and enhancing the engineering strategy with innovative solutions and AI technologies.

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

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health Insurance.
  • Yearly Development Retreat: Yearly Development Retreat.
Opus 2

Opus 2 provides game-changing, cloud-based legal technology and services to connect people, case information, analysis and data throughout the lifecycle of a dispute. Our secure platform, tailor-made for lawyers, provides a connected and flexible way of working for case teams and their clients. Combined with our best-in-class services, we also deliver electronic trials and hearings worldwide. Opus 2 is headquartered in London and also has offices in San Francisco, Edinburgh and Singapore.Equal OpportunitiesOpus 2 International is an Equal Opportunities employer and applicants are selected solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities. No applicant shall receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, marital status, civil partnership status, trans-gender status, pregnancy, maternity, colour race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, belief, sexual orientation, disability, age. This is not an exclusive listRecruitment Privacy PolicyOpus 2 is a privacy conscious organisation, committed to protecting the privacy of our people and those who seek employment with us. It is important to us that you understand what information we collect, how we use it and how we protect it. This information, alongside the rights available to you in respect of the personal data you share with us, is set out in our Privacy Policy and we would encourage you to read and ensure you understand it. Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to all applications. If you have not been contacted within one week of your application, then it is likely you have been unsuccessful.

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