Python Engineer

SimpleLegal is a legal tech startup, located in Mountain View, that is innovating the way corporate legal teams do business. With customers like Reddit, Github, Silicon Valley Bank, MGM, and over a 100 more, we are quickly becoming the SaaS platform of choice for Enterprise legal teams. As a Y-Combinator backed, Series A startup with a diversified customer base and meaningful revenue, we are bringing corporate legal teams into the modern age. Sales has Salesforce, Marketing has HubSpot, Legal has SimpleLegal.

We are looking for startup-minded software engineers to be the foundational members of our rapidly growing Engineering organization. Our engineers play a key role in product development, from concept to launch, so your ideas have impact.

Our culture is focused on ownership, transparency, and community. Lunch is catered daily to keep us connected, and everyone is welcome to join us as we break out the board games over catered dinners on Wednesdays.

THE ROLE:
As a Python Engineer you will get the opportunity to:

• Ship quality product
• Produce great, performant code while minimizing debt
• Drive technical roadmap and definition
• Participate in support of the product
• Impact the engineers around you
• Identify gaps in knowledge, tools, and processes and address them
• Incorporate best practices and build tooling to help enforce them
• Have ownership within our platform
• Ensure software quality through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Build a great team
• Recruit Sr. Engineers to help build out the team
• Mentor and coach junior engineers

DUTIES:

• Participate in SimpleLegal’s API-first strategy, building out the fundamentals for our platform
• Identify and incorporate libraries and technologies that will ease and accelerate development
• Explore and build out new products such as:
• a generic rules engine that allows customers to programmatically create customized workflows
• utilize ML to parse customer data and categorize against groups to determine spend allocation
• a flexible reporting system that safely allows users to execute arbitrary queries on authorized data
• a permissioning system to give users flexible roles and data access
• Build a SimpleLegal brand in the Bay Area market
• Contribute to culture, team and recruiting.
• Attend/host meet-ups, visit universities, contribute to blog, open source community

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3 to 5 years of designing and implementing customer-facing web products using Python, with production experience
• Agile process experience, ability to work in small teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excited about working in a small, fast-paced, early-stage startup

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience building and supporting Enterprise SaaS systems
• Experience using Django
• Extra credit for experience with any of the following Python libraries: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Bokeh, Plotly, SciKit-Learn, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, NLTK, Gensim, Scrapy, Scapy, nose, iPython, wxPython, Pillow, Stasmodels, Pipenv, PyTorch, Caffe2, Pendulum, Dash, PyFlux, Fire, Imbalanced-learn, Flashtext

OUR TECH STACK:
Our apps are built primarily using Django + Postgres on Heroku. Our users typically interact with SimpleLegal directly through the UI but we do have an API implemented using Django REST Framework for integrations with other legal-tech and fin-tech applications. The front-end is primarily Bootstrap with JavaScript + jQuery which is currently being replaced with React and Redux.

ABOUT SIMPLELEGAL:
We’re here to build a world-class Enterprise SaaS product that our customers love, that has the best support of any software product they use, in an environment that celebrates company and personal success. We offer competitive compensation and benefits in a fun working environment. Dental, medical, catered lunches, game nights to get to know your coworkers, and more.