Doctrine builds a legal research and analytics software for legal professionals, law firms, companies, and individuals to search through the law, manage their cases, and grow their business. We’re building the future of law, using the latest technologies in artificial intelligence to analyze court decisions and provide deep insights and data analytics solutions to our customers. Our challenge is to offer these cutting edge technologies through the most simple, efficient and well designed product to new customers.

We are looking for a passionate Backend Developer to join our talented Backend Team, excited about creating the very best products and growing with us. Backend Engineers are an essential part of Doctrine’s Product Team. Working closely with Data Scientists, we implement all the real-time server-side code in NodeJS where the key goals are reliability (with a goal of less than 1 minute of downtime per month), security (to ensure confidentiality for lawyers), and low latency.

In this role, you will:

• Write NodeJS controllers for AJAX API / dynamic HTML pages, using the ExpressJS mini-framework
• Work with Data Scientists to help them prepare data in PostgreSQL tables adapted to fast real-time querying in the application
• Work with Frontend Developers to create the APIs they need
• Write optimized SQL queries in the NodeJS app to get the data
• Write ElasticSearch queries in the NodeJS app to search the indexed data
• Participate in code review
• Discover the fascinating world of lawyers

For these responsibilities, we are looking for teammates with:

• 2 years or more of industry experience working as a Backend Developer
• Some knowledge of NodeJS
• A passion for code quality and overall development best practices (testing, CI/CD…)
• The ambition of delivering highly-available and highly-reliable applications
• A commitment to build the best user experience
• A knack for sharing and make people around you better teammates
• Excitement about taking cutting-edge technologies and techniques to one of the most important and most conservative industries; your work will have a deep impact on Doctrine’s growth and how legaltechs will shape the future of law jobs!
• English fluency

Bonus points if you have:

• A NodeJS expertise
• Some knowledge of ElasticSearch
• Experience in working with cloud-based services such as AWS

Why you should apply:

• It’s the ideal time to join Doctrine in terms of growth and international opportunities
• We have a strong team spirit and company culture, we live our values on a daily basis
• We’re an amazing team of hackers and disrupters
• Top-notch learning environment: ongoing mentorship, weekly best practices sharing, library
• We work in a cool and classy office in the heart of Paris (Métro Sentier)
• Regular feedback and compensation reviews - we nurture the feedback culture and reward great work

We also provide:

• Lunch coupons (Lunch’R)
• Free coffee, tea, and fresh fruits
• A full IT gear including a Mac Book Pro
• Unlimited vacations
• Referral bonuses
• Thursday beers & a lot of breakfasts
• Once per month during our “Tech Day”, the freedom to work on any project you like
• A great health insurance policy
• A competitive package, including stock options