Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at LinkSquares, you’ll be immersed in various responsibilities that are both technically challenging and strategically important. You will design, build, and ship components of our generative AI solutions, focusing significantly on AWS, Python, Rails, and React. Moreover, you’ll engage in enhancing our high-scale distributed systems, addressing customer feedback, and ensuring our infrastructure is robust and scalable. You'll also support AI orchestration and assist in product roadmap discussions, reviewing APIs and contributing your insights to the technical design and architecture.

To qualify for the Senior Software Engineer position at LinkSquares, candidates should come equipped with extensive experience in designing and building SaaS applications. A solid background in AWS, Rails, and Python is essential. Familiarity with React is also important, as well as an ability to adapt and contribute across various domains within the team. Aside from technical skills, the ideal candidate should possess a collaborative spirit, a desire to understand user needs, and the emotional intelligence to thrive in a friendly and transparent engineering culture.

In the role of Senior Software Engineer at LinkSquares, you’ll be engaged in projects focused on generative AI solutions that are crucial for our legal clients. You will work on enhancing our contract lifecycle management system, enabling legal, finance, and HR teams to save time and cut costs. You can expect to deal with complex AI orchestration, build efficient AI agents, and contribute to the technical design of our backend and frontend systems that power our high-scale applications.

At LinkSquares, we pride ourselves on fostering a friendly, transparent, and collaborative engineering culture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a team that values emotional intelligence alongside technical prowess. We encourage open discussions about architecture and design, and everyone’s input is valuable in shaping our projects. We believe that teamwork drives our best results, and we work diligently to maintain an enthusiastic and blameless environment that promotes innovation and professional growth.

Absolutely! At LinkSquares, we place a strong focus on professional growth and career advancement. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be in a position to influence project direction and have your insights valued at a strategic level. Opportunities to move into leadership roles or specialize further in your chosen technology stack are available as we encourage continuous learning and career development within our engineering team.

When discussing your experience with AWS, be specific about the projects you’ve undertaken. Highlight your role in managing services like AWS EC2, RDS, or S3. Explain how you leveraged AWS tools to improve system performance or reduce costs, and share any challenges you faced along with how you successfully navigated them.

Discuss the importance of following best practices such as modular design, effective version control using Git, and thorough documentation. Mention how you keep both front-end and back-end code organized and maintainable, and share your approach to ensuring code quality through peer reviews and testing.

Emphasize your proactive approach to customer feedback. Describe how you gather input through surveys or user testing, and how you prioritize feedback for implementation. Share examples of how feedback has directly influenced enhancements in previous projects and improved user satisfaction.

Explain your familiarity with debugging tools and practices, such as using built-in debuggers, logging tools, or performance monitoring software. Provide specific examples where you identified and resolved issues, and discuss how you continuously monitor application performance post-deployment to ensure ongoing optimization.

Share a specific example of a challenging project, the obstacles you encountered, and the steps you took to overcome them. Highlight your problem-solving skills and any innovative approaches you implemented to reach a solution, emphasizing the positive outcomes.

Discuss the various strategies you implement for scalability including modular design, microservices architecture, load balancing, and use of cloud services. Mention how you've planned for future growth in past projects and what tools or frameworks you’ve leveraged to maintain performance as system demand increases.

Express your belief in the value of code reviews as a tool for collaboration and quality assurance. Talk about how you conduct reviews—with a focus on constructive feedback—and share experiences where code review helped enhance the overall codebase and team learning.

Emphasize the crucial role of documentation in software development. Discuss how thorough documentation helps facilitate team communication, onboarding, and ensures consistency. Provide examples of how you maintain and update documentation through the project lifecycle to ensure it remains a useful resource.

Describe your commitment to continuous learning, through resources such as online courses, webinars, or professional networking. Mention any specific technologies or industry changes you've recently explored and how you’ve applied this knowledge to your work. Show your enthusiasm for personal and professional development.

Share your understanding of LinkSquares’ mission and how it aligns with your own professional goals. Discuss your passion for working on AI solutions and solving real-world problems within the legal sector. Additionally, express how you appreciate the company culture and the emphasis they place on collaboration and innovation.