Senior DevOps / Backend Engineer

Meet Avanita

Avantia Law is leading the way in legal services innovation. Our team of talented lawyers, backed by AI, work with clients to deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently. We have experienced exceptional growth and success since our inception in 2019.

Our clients are sophisticated, high-calibre investment funds and asset managers. They expect a premium service – and we deliver. We have a proven track record in this, often winning new clients through referrals. We are powered by AI but committed to our people.

We offer a culture of trust and flexibility to employees. We have an office in London for those wishing to spend some portion of their working time with colleagues, but employees are equally welcome to work predominantly remotely. We have a truly diverse workforce, with members of staff coming from all corners of the world.

Who we are looking for

We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer / Backend Engineer with DevOps experience. We are building out a suite of AI powered tools which we want to deliver to our people where they live, in internal web apps, MS Word, and MS Outlook. We are looking for people with an interest in the development cycle and infrastructure aspects.

Our ideal candidate would be someone with either experience developing in python and familiar with using/deploying common AWS solutions (Lambda/OpenSearch/S3) or an experienced DevOps engineer. We intend to build for ourselves first and potentially look to spin out technologies for external users on a 18-24-month timeline.

You’ll be sitting with our engineers and CTO, building backends and wrangling our AWS resources. You’ll start/eventually define our cloud/platform strategy, embed in our two product teams and ensure our engineers are making the most of AWS resources from ensuring we have backups, to optimising ES queries, to defining our cloud strategy.

If you are a motivated and experienced DevOps or Backend Engineer with a passion for building and maintaining innovative solutions, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge applications that drive our internal operations and future external projects.

What you will be doing

• Design/build and maintain internal-facing web applications.
• Create applications/API's for the firm’s legal tools (KYC & Contracts), implement features using AI for workflow
  tracking and document searching.
• Building and managing deployment pipelines and setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Configuring monitoring/alerting on production systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years progressive experience as a DevOps or Backend engineer
• Start-up experience would be highly advantageous but not essential
• Experienced with building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in writing production software or experience working with and configuring infrastructure.
• Experience with tools such as AWS Lambda / OpenSearch (ElasticSearch) / ElastiCache (redis) as well as Docker/git
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code solutions (eg: CloudFormation/Terraform) is a plus.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

At Avantia, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, and we firmly believe in equal opportunities for all. We value and celebrate the unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that each individual brings to our team. We embrace diversity in all its forms. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute their best work. Our hiring process is merit-based, and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals. We encourage you to communicate any reasonable accommodations you may need during the recruitment process and future employment. Please let your Talent team contact know ahead of any interview, we will be happy to suggest or confidentially discuss reasonable adjustments.

Please note this role is a full time, employed position in the United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates based outside of the UK.

While this role is remote-first, we ask that you're available to come into the office about once a week for in-person team collaboration.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays + 1 Day off for your birthday
• Private healthcare or the option to use the budget to be reimbursed for other wellness activities of your choice
• Annual subscription to your choice of Calm or Headspace
• Early finish Fridays in the summer
• Pension scheme (enhanced after 1 year service)
• Enhanced family friendly policies after 1 year