The role involves leading software development efforts, mentoring team members, ensuring application quality, optimizing performance, and innovating new software solutions.
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.
Our Mission
Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.
About Filevine:
Filevine is changing the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients. As the leading legal operating system, Filevine is dedicated to empowering organizations with tools to simplify and elevate complex, high-stakes legal work. Powering everything from document and case management to timekeeping, billing, and business analytics, over 3,400 law firms and legal teams rely on Filevine daily to deliver excellence. 2023 was a groundbreaking year for Filevine, as we launched a suite of AI-powered features transforming the legal industry:
LeadsAI helps law firms evaluate cases faster, analyze client sentiment, identify potential issues, and predict case success.
DemandsAI accelerates and improves the accuracy of demand letter generation.
ImmigrationAI - streamlines immigration workflows by automating tasks and reducing errors.
AI Fields minimizes manual work, boosts accuracy, and supports complex legal analysis.
With these innovations, Filevine enables legal teams to achieve unprecedented speed, efficiency, and excellence.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction to front-end teams, offering constructive feedback to leaders and engineers.
- Mentor developers in modern front-end engineering practices and architecture.
- Build rich, performant user interfaces using TypeScript, Svelte/SvelteKit, and modern front-end tooling.
- Shape and evolve Filevine’s design systems, component libraries, and UI architecture.
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver intuitive, accessible, and responsive interfaces.
- Ensure software quality through automated testing, performance optimization, and robust UI architecture.
- Champion best practices in accessibility, maintainability, and front-end reliability.
- Contribute to or maintain component documentation using tools such as Storybook (nice to have) and visual regression workflows like Chromatic (nice to have).
- Lead initiatives in front-end modernization, tooling, and process improvement.
- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and strategies to elevate Filevine’s client experience.
- Drive architectural decisions that scale with Filevine’s rapidly growing product ecosystem.
- Analyze and resolve complex UI issues across browsers, devices, and user contexts.
- Support deployed applications and partner closely with backend teams to ensure smooth integration.
- Conduct thoughtful and detailed code reviews with an emphasis on clarity, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Leadership & Mentoring
Front-end Development
Quality Assurance & Performance
Innovation & Technical Ownership
Problem Solving & Support
Code Quality
Key Qualifications:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial emphasis on front-end development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large initiatives independently or collaboratively.
- Expertise in TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks, ideally Svelte/SvelteKit (or strong experience in similar ecosystems such as React, Vue, or Solid).
- Experience with component-driven development and UI architecture.
- Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, or Storybook/Chromatic workflows (preferred).
- Knowledge of modern front-end build pipelines and package management, including experience with tools like Vite and PNPM.
- Experience working with cloud-based environments and source control systems like GitLab.
- Strong understanding of front-end performance, accessibility, testing, and the full SDLC.
- Experience with authentication standards such as OIDC or OAuth is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Cool Company Benefits:
- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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