Senior Lead Developer (m|f|d)

As a pioneer in the legal tech industry, we at SCAILEX create innovative, digital and scalable services for law firms and legal service providers, among others. By intelligently combining state-of-the-art technologies with valuable services, we set standards in terms of digitalization and automation of legal processes, thus revolutionizing an entire industry.

As part of the engineering and IT team, you will take on responsibility from day one and play a key role in shaping the future of SCAILEX. Together, we continuously develop our intelligent cloud platform, automate legal workflows and implement new intelligent interfaces. As an innovator in the field of Machine Learning, we continuously advance our modules for text recognition and interpretation, enabling law firms and legal service providers to scale. In the process, you'll have an entire team of sparring partners at your side. Because team play is one of our key success factors - and by far not the only one.

Interested? Apply now!

• Join our international Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of Consumer Rights across Europe
• You will be a bar raiser in a mission-based team. In this role, you will act as a multiplier for your team.
• You know how to address each challenge - coding hands-on to prototype a solution, holding technical presentations or conducting brainstorming sessions with engineers from other teams to tackle a certain problem - You know it best!!
• This is a high impact role and you will be in the lead to create the long-term technical strategy for one of ECR’s main components and represent the team in ECR’s Engineering department.

• We are digitizing the legal industry with the help of innovative processes
• Further development of our Laravel monolith to the next level, especially the service architecture
• We are promoting microservices with our PHP standards
• Opening of the technology stack within the framework of common web technologies
• Our teams work cross-functional, which means you will also exchange a lot with other product managers and engineers outside of your team.
• Our motto is: "You built it, you run it" in order to be able to act at any time - we use AWS, Docker and GitLab for implementation

• 5+ years of software development experience, from design to deployment and monitoring in production, using PHP, NodeJS, Python or other programming languages
• Knowledge with automated testing and of when and what to test
• Experience in CI/CD, pull/merge request and code reviews
• Knowledge of a web framework (preferred Laravel or similar)
• Experience with event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, resilience patterns, and microservices
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes preferred) in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• Proactive problem solver. You leave code and processes in better shape than when you first encountered them
• Team player: You are passionate about working with talented teammates. Your heart beats for receiving and giving feedback, to grow both personally and as an engineer
• Interest and passion to learn and experiment with new technologies and follow the best practices in software development for agile environments
• Experience working remotely with distributed teams
• Strong written and spoken English skills, German is a plus

• PHP/Laravel/NodeJS/Typescript/ES6/Python/Ruby on Rails statt Java/Scala/.net/C#
• RabbitMQ/Amazon SQS/Redis
• VueJS/React
• Docker/Kubernetes
• MySQL/Postgres/Elasticsearch

• An exceptional career opportunity: you will help shape Europe's leading legal tech company. 
• Personal and professional growth: You will be part of a strong tech team with an innovative tech roadmap and contribute significantly to the successful scaling of the business. 
• Hands-on mentality: You have a lot of creative freedom and a lot of personal responsibility thanks to our entrepreneurial leadership philosophy.
• Agility: You benefit from flat hierarchies and short decision-making and communication paths. 
• Work-life balance: You have flexible working hours and can also be productive in the home office.
• Team spirit: You can expect enthusiastic, highly motivated colleagues with valuable know-how, a good mood and a lot of humor. 
• Company and team events: We attach great importance to the feeling of togetherness, regularly celebrate our successes and grow together through joint activities and adventures.
• Ecological and social commitment: We plant trees, operate climate-neutrally, are a paperless office and support your mental and physical health. 
• Diversity: We foster an appreciative, respectful and equal opportunity work environment and communicate positively.
• Modern office: You work in centrally located, light-filled and open offices with modern technology.
• For free: You get to enjoy coffee, fresh fruit, snacks and tasty business lunch every day.