Software Architect

Job Description

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work.

Overview: We seek a highly skilled and experienced Software Architect who will demonstrate technical leadership and strong communication and presentation skills to join our dynamic and innovative technology team. The position requires rock-solid programming skills and the capacity to lead all aspects of technical design reviews and quality culture. You will be responsible for defining the requirements, and designing, and shaping technology innovation at Litera.  This is a unique opportunity to play a key technical strategy role within a growing and ever-changing ecosystem. The role works closely with both the Engineering and Product teams and spans both products and the underlying technology platform.  Our customers rely on us to deliver innovative, strategic, and forward-looking solutions. This is your chance to be a key member of a global software company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative architectural solutions in a wide variety of problem sets and domains.

• Create and share architectural designs, best practices, and technology roadmaps with cross-functional teams.

• Translate business and product requirements into technical requirements, models, and software architectures.

• Focus on non-functional requirements, including deployment needs, scalability, performance, and reliability when developing architectures and best practices.

• Develop “proof of concept” solutions to help demonstrate and communicate technical designs and desired architectures.

• Develop architecture and guidelines to move on-perm systems to SAAS-based multi-tenant solutions on Azure Cloud.

• Drive adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis, and ROI.

• Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

• Mentor the team to work towards a common platform architecture across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software development experience with excellent .NET/C#, React, and TypeScript coding skills.

• 4+ years of experience working as a Software Architect in a product organization.

• 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS cloud computing (Azure preferred).

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Engineering (or related experience).

• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and microservices.

• Experience with building highly scalable and resilient cloud services.

• Experience developing reference architectures and proof of concept prototypes.

• Experience implementing modern security solutions including token-based authentication, OAuth 2.0 workflows, SAML authentication, and authorization techniques.

• Preferable experience: Azure OpenAI/GPT/LLMs, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, Lucene/Elasticsearch, Azure DevOps, CI/CD.

• Preferable certifications: Microsoft or other industry certifications in architecture are a plus.

Why Join Litera?

• The company culture: We emphasize helping each other grow, doing the right thing always, and being part of a journey to amplify impact, creating an exciting and fulfilling work environment

• Commitment to Employees: Our people commitment is based on what employees love most about being part of the team, focusing on tools that matter to the difference-makers in the legal world and amplifying their impact

• Global, Dynamic, and Diverse Team: Our is a global company with ambitious goals and unlimited opportunities, offering a dynamic and diverse work environment where employees can grow, listen, empathize, and problem-solve together

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Experience peace of mind with our health insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off, and a supportive work-life balance. We invest in your well-being and future, ensuring a rewarding career journey.

• Career Growth and Development: We provide career paths and opportunities for professional development, allowing employees to progress through various technical and leadership roles