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Join Jus Mundi – To Power Global Justice 🚀⚖️

Founded in 2019 and recognized as a mission-led company, Jus Mundi is pioneering legal technology to power global justice through artificial intelligence. 🌍 Headquartered in Paris, with additional offices in New York, London, and Singapore, Jus Mundi serves over 150,000 users, including top law firms, multinational corporations, government bodies, and academic institutions in more than 80 countries. By combining legal expertise with cutting-edge AI technology, we provide global legal intelligence, data-driven arbitration professional selection, and business development services.

What Makes Jus Mundi the Place to Be 🌟

• 🌐 Proven Product Market Fit: Jus Mundi has secured product-market fit in global markets since launch, partnering with top-tier law firms, government bodies, and major corporations, including Freshfields, Quinn Emanuel, Wong Partnership, Total Energies, Canada, UK, and Japan.
• 💸 Strategic Investment: We recently raised over $20 million in Series B funding from prominent strategic international investors, including Acton Capital, True Global Ventures, C4 Ventures, and FJ Labs, fueling our growth and innovation.
• 🤖 Legal Meets Tech: Our engineers and former lawyers collaborate closely with large language models (LLMs) to pioneer the future of generative AI and reshape professional services.
• 🌟 Exceptional Team: Work with talented professionals from industry leaders, including engineers, legal experts, and AI specialists from companies like Google and Amazon who are pushing the boundaries of legal tech.
• 🧬 Our Values: With core values as Friendly, Committed, Explorative, and Excelsior, we cultivate a dynamic environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth.

📌 Job description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is your chance to shape the future of our data-driven platforms and have a direct impact on global justice through technology.

You'll play a key role in developing new product features while maintaining and modernizing our existing systems. You'll help us extract services written in Go from a shrinking monolith built in Symfony. You’ll also work closely with Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Neo4j to handle data across our platform. This is a hands-on role with plenty of room for impact as we scale and evolve our stack.

At Jus Mundi, you’ll help to innovate and solve complex technical challenges. You will be part of a cross-functional squad, to define and execute the technical and product roadmap.

📌 Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
• Develop new product features in close collaboration with product and frontend teams.
• Work on the extraction of Go microservices from our existing Symfony monolith, helping drive our migration to a modern service-oriented architecture.
• Maintain and improve existing Symfony code where needed to ensure stability during the transition.
• Work with Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Neo4j to model, query, and optimize datasets.
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions (RFC), and mentoring of junior developers.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues to ensure high system availability.
• Taking care of docker images and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensuring dependencies are up-to-date.

📌 Preferred Experience

• 7+ years of experience in your field.
• Proven experience working in startups or fast-paced environments.

📌 Required Skills and Qualifications

• Proven expertise in backend development in Symfony/PHP and Go with a strong understanding of clean code, and design patterns.
• Experience designing and building scalable services.
• Hands-on experience with databases such as Postgres, Elastic search, or Neo4J
• Familiarity with git and containerization technologies like Docker.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, with a pragmatical approach.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

📌 Recruitment process

• 30 minutes call with our HR Screening call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to understand your career plans and show you what we are doing at Jus Mundi
• 1-hour meeting with our CTO or your future manager to talk about the Job and the Squad
• One or two technical tests, either on site or remote, regarding your availabilities
• Come and meet the team in our office located in the 8ᵉ arrondissement: A moment of exchange and discovery during which you’ll meet various people (engineer, data, designer, product).

Need More Reasons to Join Us? ✨

• 💻 Enjoy a hybrid working organization that combines remote and on-site work.
• 🏖 Benefit from 5 weeks of vacation annually.
• 🍼 Take advantage of paid parental leave.
• 🩺 Receive 100% coverage of private health insurance for yourself and your children.
• 🚊 Get 50% reimbursement of your transportation costs.
• 🍴 Enjoy 60% company-funded restaurant vouchers for your weekday meals (Swile).
• 💰 Receive a competitive salary.
• 😍 Participate in company-wide summits called JM Fest to connect and inspire.
• 🌍 Enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere across the globe for up to 8 weeks per year.
• 📚 Profit from our support in ongoing training to continually expand your skills and knowledge.
• 💙 Last but not least: Experience a commitment to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ candidate. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day.