Description
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.
Role Summary: Join Filevine as a Lead Architect to bridge the gap between complex system design and high-impact leadership, serving as a key technical visionary for mission-critical production systems.
What You'll Do:
- Design and oversee the development of high-scale, mission-critical production systems, ensuring they are modular, composable, and extensible.
- Drive the evolution of "legacy" systems by implementing strategic techniques to migrate them toward a modern, target-state architecture.
- Act as a bridge between Engineering and non-technical stakeholders to ensure business needs are reflected in technical designs.
- Create clear technical documentation and complex system diagrams to communicate architectural visions.
- Facilitate design sessions and distributed conversations, ensuring engineering teams retain ownership of their work while benefiting from expert feedback.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure, balancing high performance with cost efficiencies and regional deployment needs.
- Serve as a high-level mentor to engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Monitor the broader computing landscape to identify dependable current technologies and emerging trends worthy of adoption.
What You Need:
- Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Advanced proficiency in high-level service design and the ability to model interfaces for long-term scalability.
- Deep working knowledge of various data persistence layers and a nuanced understanding of which use cases suit specific technologies.
- Significant experience with a major cloud provider, including a strong grasp of its capabilities and inherent caveats.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor complex messages for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A hospitality-focused approach to leadership, prioritizing being "of service" to the teams you support.
- The ability to propose solutions and integrate critical feedback without defensiveness, maintaining a focus on the best outcome for the product.
- A proven track record as a domain expert in a specific focus area.
Tech Stack Context
- .NET monorepo (C#), actively migrating from monolith to microservices.
- AWS infrastructure (ECS, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, Elasticsearch).
- Terraform for IaC; CI/CD pipelines; multi-region aspirations.
- Python AI/ML services; Temporal.io for workflow orchestration.
- CQRS and event-driven architecture patterns.
Additional Information
Compensation Information: $200,000 - 300,000.
Cool Company Benefits:
- 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.