Most of our development work is undertaken in Edinburgh, with several engineers working remotely from other countries. You will be based in our friendly office in central Edinburgh. Working hours are flexible and hybrid working will be available. We follow an agile process with small, highly collaborative squad focused on delivery.
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to join one of our Product Squads working on several web applications that provide Audio and Video capture of the court process. Using a novel multi-channel audio recording system as part of Transcript production that is converted for editing and Quality Assurance. You will be joining a department that covers the end-to-end of development from design through to testing, deployment, and support.
What you'll be doing
- Driving technical design and delivery of significant pieces of work, such as major new features, or fixing complex defects.
- Taking responsibility for and ownership of work, including proactively seeking to unblock yourself and others, and ensuring that work progresses through the process from design to delivery.
- Resolving technical challenges, such as researching and integrating a new technology into the system.
- Maintain high standards of technical quality through reviewing the work of peers and guiding and mentoring more junior colleagues.
- Taking an active part in technical discussions, contributing knowledge and experience to ensure good technical decision making.
- Proactively identifying issues in the system and the processes which impact the team, and presenting solutions.
About the product
- Audio Visual (AV) capturing and processing system designed in a modular fashion with multiple services
- Distributed real time applications with front end in HTML5/Web Audio/TypeScript; backend in Go and Python.
- Speech-to-text (STT) done via API to several different providers.
- Real time streaming of data between services.
- Online editor for logging, correcting and enriching the Transcript.
- Integrating advanced signal processing for channel detection + STT.
- Utilising GitHub Actions and SonarQube.
- Deployed to services running on the AWS infrastructure.
- 5+ years’ experience in research or professional software engineering.
- Degree in computer engineering / computer science; ideally MEng/MSc or PhD.
- Proactive attitude and a bias towards action with a client focus and excellent communication skills.
- Learning attitude and raising up others with an open mind.
- Audio processing experience (DSP, FFT) an advantage.
- Systems approach to engineering (hardware + software).
- Use of cloud systems and APIs (AWS and transcribe).
- Experience with Git, GitHub Projects, and Slack are beneficial.
- Familiarity with Linux environments.
Opus 2 is a global leader in the LegalTech space, creating solutions to drive digital transformation in the legal industry. We are the trusted partner of the world’s leading legal teams, with the world’s largest law firms are using Opus 2.
Our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture and our people are our biggest asset. Working at Opus 2, you’ll receive:
- Contributory pension plan.
- 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
- Loyalty Share Scheme.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
- Private Healthcare Scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
- A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
- Regular Company Social Events.
- Yearly Development Retreat.
