Principal Engineer - #310837

LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams.

Our aim is to make the lives of in-house legal teams and their business partners more productive and fulfilling. We are well on the way with some of the world’s leading global brands and best in-house legal teams already operating on LawVu.

Growing super fast, LawVu is headquartered in sunny Tauranga, New Zealand with teams in Australia, the USA and Ireland. Our culture is strongly values aligned where we look for people to bring their whole selves and join a team doing the best work of their lives.

LawVu’s Product & Engineering team is looking for a Principal Engineer, who takes pride in creating beautiful solutions that can move as fast as the startup that creates them. We are looking for a technical leader to take our team of highly skilled and experienced software engineers to the next level in their careers.

As a Principal Engineer at LawVu you’ll be expected to think ahead, design for change and build robust solutions. You’ll be able to bring the engineering team along on the journey, leading by example and paving the way to an efficient, scalable platform that we love to work on.

In this role you will work closely with the rest of the Product & Engineering team to take our API and developer platform to the next level and enable the rapid scale up and change tolerance that is required for this high growth phase.

What you’ll do

• Be awesome
• Lead the design and build of simple, scalable, beautiful solutions
• Instill a culture of engineering excellence in everything you do and in those around you
• Be the leader of our technical architecture and system design
• Maintain and improve strict security requirements for a multi-tenant environment
• Guide and mentor the engineering team
• Work closely with the wider product and engineering leadership team to develop product and engineering roadmaps and initiatives
• Work with product teams and customers on product discovery

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• Experience designing and building customer facing distributed web services and APIs (e.g. REST)
• Hands on coding ability and a desire to be elbows deep in the minutia
• Expert level knowledge of the Microsoft .NET stack
• Deep understanding of different solution and system architecture paradigms and pragmatism on their application
• Deep knowledge of security principles, encryption, key rotation algorithms, etc
• Deep understanding of APIs, developer products and platform patterns
• At least a working knowledge of front end technologies, both desktop and mobile
• Comfort working in an Agile development environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Location

Preferred location is Tauranga, but other New Zealand locations will be considered for the right person

People Leadership

• There are no direct reports

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

Dig Deeper

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it's impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique. We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.