Skills

Leadership CI/CD Test Test Automation Coaching SDLC

Job Specifications

As a Staff Engineer at Opus 2, you'll lead the delivery of large-scale features and projects within your squad while beginning to influence cross-squad engineering practices. You'll serve as a trusted technical expert, partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and user focused. You'll raise technical standards, coach engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability and reliability.

What You'll Be Doing

Own and deliver large features or projects from design through completion with minimal oversight
Partner with Product and Design to align project delivery with business and user needs
Lead technical design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
Contribute to the wider engineering strategy by influencing best practices across squads
Mentor senior developers, providing technical guidance and feedback
Drive adoption of modern practices (CI/CD, observability, test automation)
Leverage AI to improve quality, delivery speed, and developer productivity across the SDLC

What success looks like

You consistently deliver large, technically sound projects that meet user and business needs
You anticipate and address technical risks before they become blockers
You elevate engineering standards across your squad and influence other squads
You mentor engineers, strengthening technical depth and delivery capability

Requirements

What we're looking for in you

Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and API-first platforms
Proven ability to lead project delivery end-to-end
Strong mentoring and coaching skills
Familiarity with scaling systems and operational reliability
:8+ years professional software engineering experience

Benefits

Working for Opus 2

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world's leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you'll receive:

Contributory pension plan
33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement
Health Insurance
Loyalty Share Scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity
Employee Assistance Programme
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice
Cycle to Work Scheme
Calm and Mindfulness sessions
A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity
Regular Company Social Events
Yearly Development Retreat

About the Company

For more than 15 years, Opus 2 has developed award-winning solutions trusted by the most successful law firms. Used in thousands of proceedings around the world, Opus 2 transforms how lawyers and other legal professionals work by eliminating inefficiencies and connecting them with the AI-enhanced, collaborative software they need to work smarter and more effectively together. The company also delivers the essential technology and expertise needed to conduct dispute resolution proceedings in the most modern, seamless, and sec... Know more