Software Developer at Rocket Lawyer

About Rocket Lawyer

We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. 

Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, Europe and Brazil, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 25 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered. 

We are currently enhancing and expanding the Rocket Lawyer platform with the goal of capturing audiences worldwide. Please join us as we grow our team and help tackle this challenge together!

About the Position

Rocket Lawyer is seeking an experienced, passionate Engineer who wants to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a talented team. You’ll join one of our cross-functional Agile teams architecting, designing and building the next generation of our backend systems. This is primarily a back-end role but openness to work full-stack is a plus. 

• Passionate about software quality
• Is dedicated to continuous learning and self-improvement
• Open to and seeks out feedback, using it to reflect on ways to improve
• Clear and precise in face-to-face and written communication
• Practising extreme ownership
• Desire to make a real impact working in a small cross-functional team
• Proactive, self-sufficient, thorough and a team player

• Responsible for the entire Software Development Life Cycle of your code including development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements
• Collaborate with other teams to incorporate their requirements and manage dependencies. Have a big picture in mind and plan ahead
• Actively participate in design and code reviews
• Work with the Ops team on deployment and own team’s deployment pipelines

• Industry experience of delivery using Java (v8 or later) 
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring and SpringBoot
• Utilising automated testing frameworks and testing tools

• JPA, SQL preferably experience with Postgres
• Experience designing and developing RESTful services/APIs
• Experience with Scala.
• Knowledge of Javascript/typescript, html & css.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers Docker and Kubernetes 

• Private health insurance 
• Life insurance
• Meal/Food voucher
• Gympass discount
• Daycare assistance
• Financial support with those who have children with special needs and disabilities
• Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates