Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience
filevineMillbrae (CA)
Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience
Posted 5 days ago
filevineMillbrae (CA)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Filevine Engineering Role 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. You'll own the systems that carry our software from commit to production: GitLab CI for build, Octopus Deploy for release, across. NET, Python, and Svelte. That's today's starting point, not the destination. The mandate here is transformation — we need to accelerate delivery meaningfully, how far that goes is genuinely open, and you'll have a strong hand in deciding.
What You'll Do:
Own and re-architect our CI/CD pipeline end to end, across three language ecosystems.
Find where engineering time actually goes — through conversation and through data — and fix what costs the most.
Build internal tooling that engineers adopt because it's better, not because it's mandated.
Attack flaky tests, slow feedback loops, and the seams between systems where delivery quietly stalls.
Instrument 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.
Carry on-call for what you build. We support what we ship.
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.
Pipelines serving multiple language ecosystems at once, several dependency caches, several test runners, one coherent release process.
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. We make decisions on data, not whim.
Infrastructure-as-code and containerization in practice.
An ownership mindset. You've carried a pager for systems you built, and it shaped how you build them.
The ability to change how engineers work through mentorship — through better tools, clear writing, and earned credibility.
Hands-on, non-superficial use of AI-assisted development tooling.
Nice To Have:
- GitLab CI at scale (runner fleets, caching strategies, reusable templates) or Octopus Deploy.
- Build systems for .NET/MSBuild, Python packaging, or modern JavaScript build tooling.
- Experience with monorepo tooling, pipeline observability, or security/compliance automation.
- Prior background working as a product/feature software engineer
- Work Location Expectation: Remote or option to be hybrid/in-office in one the following locations: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Salt Lake CityCool Company Benefits:
- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair PayMaternity & 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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