Staff Engineer

Join Jus Mundi, a leading legal tech company, as a Staff Engineer. In this critical role, you will shape and sustain a resilient, secure, and scalable platform that drives business value. You will balance strategic technical leadership with hands-on engineering work, collaborating across multiple product and platform teams. Your mission will include driving architectural decisions, tackling essential technical work, and leading the implementation of a new engineering framework.

• Conduire des décisions architecturales et une stratégie technique à travers plusieurs équipes et domaines, en mettant l'accent sur les résultats du produit et l'impact sur l'utilisateur.
• Participer activement à des travaux essentiels tels que les mises à niveau de la pile (PHP, Symfony) et les migrations techniques, et écrire du code de production dans différents domaines.
• Diriger la mise en œuvre de notre nouveau cadre d'ingénierie, définir et faire respecter les normes d'ingénierie liées à la fiabilité, à la sécurité, aux tests et au déploiement.

**Experience & Seniority**

• **10+ years of professional experience** in software engineering and cloud infrastructure management
• **At least 3 years in senior or staff-level technical leadership roles**
• Strong track record of leading complex technical projects without direct managerial authority

**Technical Stack & DevOps**

• **Senior software engineering experience with PHP and Symfony** (our core backend stack)
• **Solid experience with Node.js** (Nuxt experience is a plus but not critical)
• **Strong DevOps expertise**: Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CICD, Observability
• Experience designing, scaling, and operating fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Ability to work across multiple programming languages and contexts

**System Design & Architecture**

• Deep expertise in system design and distributed systems architecture
• Proven ability to make and communicate clear technical trade-offs
• Experience orchestrating complex technical transitions across multiple teams

**Leadership & Communication**

• **Crisis management** experience and composure under pressure
• Strong opinions with ability to advocate for positions while driving consensus
• Excellent capacity to convince, guide, and drive technical decisions
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in **English (fluent required)**
• Strong product mindset with ability to understand business context and user needs
• Ability to evolve in a fast changing environment, reevaluating priorities and choosing the right impact at the right time under multi lever requirements

**Bonus:** Experience in SaaS or AI-powered platforms, security engineering, large-scale platform engineering, or legal tech environments is a plus.