Lead Software Engineer

Position Requirement:

Are you a technology leader with a passion for leveraging AI in software design and development on projects in a collaborative agile team environment? If so, join the FindLaw technology group as a Lead Software Engineer, where you will contribute to the design and delivery of critical public-facing and internal applications.

As a Lead Software Engineer at FindLaw, your responsibilities are to:

• Collaborate with others efficiently and effectively to accomplish tasks on the desired timeline.
• Learn and apply new business and technical concepts quickly.
• Provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring design and architecture are aligned with the FindLaw strategy, standards, and best practices.
• Experience with cloud services from AWS or Azure.
• Champion AI development standards, investing in building context, skills, and related tooling the team can leverage to expand its capabilities.
• Participate in all aspects of the agile process from story creation through release.
• Design, develop, test, and deliver application features that delight customers.
• Contribute non-functional requirements to projects to achieve long term

application health and stability.

• Understand and apply current secure development practices.
• Maintain an understanding of industry trends and use this knowledge to bring new

innovative ideas to the group.

• Support Production applications as needed to prevent service interruptions and

maintain a high level of quality for our customers.

• Communicate effectively in written and verbal form with colleagues and vendor representatives.
• Mentor junior engineers to sustain a high level of development standards.
• Effectively manage your priorities and time.
• Present technical concepts and proposals with business and technical audiences

in a way that resonates with them.

• Tackle the largest technical challenges facing the team.

About You

Your qualifications for a Lead Software Engineer are:

• A bachelors degree in architecture, engineering, computer science, or a related

field.

• Minimum 7 years in a technical development role.
• Experience and interest using agentic AI tools to expand your engineering capabilities.
• 5+ years experience developing enterprise Java applications using Spring, with unit

tests.

• Experience designing, delivering, and maintaining ReSTful services.
• Experience with messaging services like SQS, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Experience managing efficient database connections and transactions in Java.
• Experience writing and executing complex SQL.
• Experience with cloud services from AWS or Azure.
• Previously delivered major application features used in Production.
• Strong passion for technology and a willingness to continuously learn and apply new skills.
• Proven design skills with significant knowledge of core libraries and common architecture and design patterns.
• Ability to follow and champion standards that produce clean code that is easy to understand.
• Understanding of security testing and remediation best practices.
• Customer-first approach to software development.
• Able to work independently with minimal direction to meet commitments.
• Strong focus on system performance, scalability with the ability to troubleshoot in

large and complex software systems.

• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Inclination towards automation, unit tests, integration tests, and adopting agile

practices.

• Hands-on experience with security vulnerability scanning tools like Snyk or Trivy,