About the company

Proof is a disruptive startup in the legal tech space. Over the last 3 years we’ve been experiencing explosive growth and have over 3,000 customers, and we’re currently closing on our Series A fundraising round. We’re 100% remote and looking for talented engineers as we build out our world class engineering team.

Job description

We’re Proof, a startup in the legal tech industry. We’ve built a best-in-class legal services platform that is used by thousands of law firms, and growing over 10% month-over-month. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team as we continue to scale and grow as a company.

What you’ll do:

– Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers. You will not be a cog in a machine, and the work you do will directly impact the lives of tens of thousands of law firms, lawyers, paralegals, and individuals throughout the US, and eventually the world.
– Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices
– Help the team define and maintain development practices
– Work in an agile programming environment
– Interface directly with the CTO
– Write code primarily in Go & JavaScript
– Build out new features & service offerings
– Refactor existing systems as we move towards a service-oriented architecture

What we’ll expect you to know on day one:

– 5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
– Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Java). Specific experience with Go is a plus.
– Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies
– Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
– Extensive experience with at least one modern frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Angular)
– Are a self-starter, take initiative, self-manage and require little day-to-day direction to be successful
– Proven understanding of REST APIs
– Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
– Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects
– Experience writing software tests (e.g. integration tests, end-to-end tests, unit tests)
– You’re excited to learn new technologies, languages, tools and best practices
– You’re a proactive communicator; you communicate concerns and blockers early

Great to have, but not required:

– Knowledge and experience of event-driven architecture and message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka)
– Experience with DevOps / Kubernetes
– Experience with Laravel / Lumen
– Experience with React / React Native
– Practical experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, DataDog
– Experience with large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
– Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
– Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

Benefits:

– 100% remote, work from anywhere in the US
– Flexible working hours
– Clear path to grow your career into engineering leadership/management role
– Competitive paid time off
– Competitive salary & stock options
– Health care, vision, and dental