About this role
Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year
Requirements: Strong, demonstrable experience and passion for backend developmentAbility to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to deliver customer solutionsProficiency designing and architecting microservices, including distributed data management and event-driven architecturesExperience designing and operating containerised software hosted by a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCPExperience with cloud-based data storage, such as relational databases, NoSQL stores and data cachesExperience writing strongly typed languages in the Java family, such as Java, Scala or KotlinCandidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship, now or in the future; we are not currently sponsoring visasExperience with petabyte-scale, high-availability software systems would be beneficialExperience writing software for regulated industries would be beneficial Responsibilities: Own complex technical work from start to finish, breaking down ambiguous problems, making trade-off decisions and shipping considered code that improves customer outcomesContribute to architectural design and monitor the health of the systems you work onIdentify and raise issues in requirements, design or code before they become problemsSupport colleagues through code reviews, pairing and helping less experienced engineers developCollaborate with engineers in our UK hub and colleagues in India and the USUse AI tools throughout the engineering lifecycle while taking responsibility for the services your team runs in production Technologies: AIAWSAzureBackendCloudDatadogDockerGCPGraphQLSupportJavaKafkaKotlinLESSNoSQLPostgreSQLRedisScalaSecurityTerraformgRPCmicroservicesDevOps More:
We are DISCO, shaping the future of litigation with technology and professional services for complex legal matters. Our cloud-native, AI-powered platform helps legal teams process, collect and search large volumes of diverse documents, with security, privacy and data-residency controls for sensitive material. Our global engineering organisation has more than 170 engineers across technical hubs in India, the UK and the US. We are expanding our UK hub, where you will join a team working to enhance our platform. Our stack includes AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kafka, Temporal, Datadog, Terraform, gRPC, GraphQL and Kotlin. We offer compensation of £90 to £114, a performance-related bonus and equity, remote working for those who live far from central London, equity RSU grants, a personalised growth plan, and health, financial, retirement and wellbeing benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
last updated 40 week of 2026