Senior DevOps / Backend Engineer

at  Avantia Law

MEET AVANITA

Avantia Law is leading the way in legal services innovation. Our team of talented lawyers, backed by AI, work with clients to deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently. We have experienced exceptional growth and success since our inception in 2019.
Our clients are sophisticated, high-calibre investment funds and asset managers. They expect a premium service – and we deliver. We have a proven track record in this, often winning new clients through referrals. We are powered by AI but committed to our people.
We offer a culture of trust and flexibility to employees. We have an office in London for those wishing to spend some portion of their working time with colleagues, but employees are equally welcome to work predominantly remotely. We have a truly diverse workforce, with members of staff coming from all corners of the world.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer / Backend Engineer with DevOps experience. We are building out a suite of AI powered tools which we want to deliver to our people where they live, in internal web apps, MS Word, and MS Outlook. We are looking for people with an interest in the development cycle and infrastructure aspects.
Our ideal candidate would be someone with either experience developing in python and familiar with using/deploying common AWS solutions (Lambda/OpenSearch/S3) or an experienced DevOps engineer. We intend to build for ourselves first and potentially look to spin out technologies for external users on a 18-24-month timeline.
You’ll be sitting with our engineers and CTO, building backends and wrangling our AWS resources. You’ll start/eventually define our cloud/platform strategy, embed in our two product teams and ensure our engineers are making the most of AWS resources from ensuring we have backups, to optimising ES queries, to defining our cloud strategy.
If you are a motivated and experienced DevOps or Backend Engineer with a passion for building and maintaining innovative solutions, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge applications that drive our internal operations and future external projects.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years progressive experience as a DevOps or Backend engineer
• Start-up experience would be highly advantageous but not essential
• Experienced with building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in writing production software or experience working with and configuring infrastructure.
• Experience with tools such as AWS Lambda / OpenSearch (ElasticSearch) / ElastiCache (redis) as well as Docker/git
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code solutions (eg: CloudFormation/Terraform) is a plus.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Design/build and maintain internal-facing web applications.
• Create applications/API’s for the firm’s legal tools (KYC & Contracts), implement features using AI for workflowtracking and document searching.
• Building and managing deployment pipelines and setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Configuring monitoring/alerting on production systems.

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS A FULL TIME, EMPLOYED POSITION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. WE ARE UNABLE TO CONSIDER CANDIDATES BASED OUTSIDE OF THE UK.

While this role is remote-first, we ask that you’re available to come into the office about once a week for in-person team collaboration.