Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Filevine
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with CI/CD expertise and a strong background in software engineering, working in a remote or hybrid setting within a legal tech domain.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in designing and rebuilding CI/CD pipelines across multiple language ecosystems
    — “Own and re-architect our CI/CD pipeline end to end, across three language ecosystems.”
  • Individuals who have carried on-call responsibilities for systems they built
    — “An ownership mindset. You’ve carried a pager for systems you built, and it shaped how you build them.”
  • Candidates who can mentor engineers and influence workflows through tools and clear communication
    — “The ability to change how engineers work through mentorship — through better tools, clear writing, and earned credibility.”

Things to consider

  • On-call responsibilities are expected for systems the candidate builds
    — “Carry on-call for what you build. We support what we ship.”
  • Candidates must be comfortable with AI-assisted development tools as part of the workflow
    — “Improve local development setup and onboarding, and bring AI-assisted development into our workflow deliberately.”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate fluency in DORA metrics and how they can be used to drive decisions
    — “Fluency in how software delivery is measured: You know the DORA metrics well enough to instrument them, read them honestly, and use them to choose what to work on.”
  • Showcase hands-on use of infrastructure-as-code and containerization in practical scenarios
    — “Infrastructure-as-code and containerization in practice.”
  • Emphasize experience in creating tools that engineers naturally adopt rather than enforce
    — “Build internal tooling that engineers adopt because it’s better, not because it’s mandated.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Own and re-architect CI/CD pipeline end to end
  • Build internal tooling that engineers adopt
Typical background
Deep hands-on CI/CD ownershipReal software engineering ability

Skills & requirements

Required

Ci/cd Pipeline OwnershipSoftware EngineeringMulti-language Ecosystem SupportDORA MetricsInfrastructure-as-codeContainerizationOwnership MindsetMentorship

Preferred

Gitlab CI At ScaleBuild Systems For .net/msbuild, Python Packaging, Or Modern Javascript Build ToolingMonorepo ToolingPipeline ObservabilitySecurity/compliance AutomationPrior Background Working As A Product/feature Software Engineer

Stack & domain

Ci/cd PipelineSoftware EngineeringInfrastructure-as-codeContainerizationDORA MetricsAi-assisted DevelopmentOwnership MindsetMentorshipCommunicationTeamworkSoftware DevelopmentEngineering

About the role

Original posting from Filevine via Lever

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.

Role Summary:

Every engineer pays a tax on slow builds, flaky tests, manual release steps, and tooling they have to work around. That tax compounds, and it’s paid by every team, every day, and it never shows up on a roadmap. This role exists to pay it down, so that everyone building software for legal teams can ship faster.

Today the largest known cost is the path from commit to production: GitLab CI for build, Octopus Deploy for release, across .NET, Python, and Svelte. That’s where you’ll start, and it isn’t where the job ends. The same mandate covers developer platform work, internal tooling, and purpose-built solutions for one team’s specific problem. What stays fixed is the measure: how much faster we ship, and how much friction you took out. You’ll have a strong hand in choosing the means. This is a senior individual contributor role, and your leverage comes from what you build and who you persuade.

What You'll Do::

  • Own and re-architect the path from commit to production, end to end, across three language ecosystems. It’s the largest single cost today and the first thing you’ll take on.
  • Build internal tooling that engineers adopt because it’s better, not because it’s mandated.
  • Build the platform layer where it pays for itself: self-service environments, paved paths, and shared infrastructure that teams should stop solving separately. Build one-off solutions where a single team’s problem deserves a purpose-built answer.
  • Expand our delivery metrics and use them to drive decisions and report progress.
  • Improve local development setup and onboarding, and bring AI-assisted development into our workflow deliberately.

What You'll Need::

  • Deep hands-on CI/CD ownership: you’ve designed and rebuilt pipelines, not just consumed them.
  • Real software engineering ability. This isn’t a configuration role; you’ll write code your peers respect.
  • Product sense for internal tools, and the ability to change how engineers work without the authority to make them. You treat engineers as users, you know the difference between what they ask for and what they need, and you earn adoption through better tools, clear writing, and credibility from having shipped.
  • Range across more than one language ecosystem at once: several dependency caches, several test runners, one coherent release process. We care that you’ve handled the variety, not that you’ve handled ours.
  • Fluency in how software delivery is measured: You know the metrics well enough to instrument them, read them honestly, and use them to choose what to work on. We make decisions on data, not whim.
  • Infrastructure-as-code and containerization in practice.

Nice To Have:

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GitLab CI at scale (runner fleets, caching strategies, reusable templates) or Octopus Deploy.

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Build systems for .NET/MSBuild, Python packaging, or modern JavaScript build tooling.

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Experience with monorepo tooling, pipeline observability, or security/compliance automation.

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Prior background working as a product/feature software engineer

Compensation Information: $190k - $230k

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Work Location Expectation: Remote or option to be hybrid/in-office in one the following locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Salt Lake City

Cool Company Benefits:

  • A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive 
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
  • Competitive & Fair Pay
  • Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
  • Short & long-term disability
  • Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
  • Top-of-the-line company swag

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