At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our e-discovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects.

Here you can own your career in a community of values-driven people who help our customers around the world solve complex data challenges. If this sounds like the place for you, check out the details of this position below.

Join our Analytics Engineering group where we specialize in Discovering the Truth faster and more efficiently. Our suite of Analytics features allow our users to conceptually cluster documents based on meaning, not just word matching. We also provide structure and visualization to unstructured data, allowing our users to find the most relevant data the fastest. We leverage machine learning to train the system to find pertinent documents without the need for excessive manual intervention. Join our team as we dive into social communication analysis, active learning/predictive coding, data visualizations, and AI solutions that will power the next generation of eDiscovery Analytics! Our tech stack includes a Relativity Analytics Engine (RAE) written in Java and Scala, while our Relativity Analytics UI is written in JavaScript and C#.NET, powered by a MSSQL database. Our Analytics PaaS shared service is mounted in Azure and Cloud technologies such as Docker, Rancher, and Kubernetes.

The Senior Software Engineer architects, designs, implements and tests cloud native software while consistently applying best practice software engineering.

Responsibilities:

• High-impact contributions and technical guidance to an agile software development team that solves complex problems to regularly ship high quality, performant, secure software that operates on data at massive scale in the cloud utilizing Java, Scala, and other technologies as needed
• Utilize sound engineering practices to deliver functional, reliable, secure, tested and maintainable software that satisfies stakeholders requirements
• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization. (Development, Release Management, Engineer Operations, etc.)
• Obsessive focus on quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing and static analysis as well as rigorous test strategy development
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment, and operations
• Positively contribute to the culture, well-being, and growth of each team member and the company at large by being a helpful and considerate team member and by adhering to the company’s core values

The Senior Software Engineer performs the following functions, in addition to others:

• Facilitates pair/mob programming to improve software quality and completeness and disseminate design and implementation knowledge
• Advocate and model coding and collaboration practices, reviews team code, and provides team members with feedback and suggestions for process improvement
• Collaborate with other dev teams regularly to establish an outbound and inbound pipeline of new (to Relativity) practices to continually tune the team’s process
• Remain open to new ideas and encourage innovative practices amongst peers
• Work with test engineers to encourage defect prevention over detection

In addition to the above responsibilities, the Senior Software Engineer is expected to display professionalism in the following ways: 

• Maintain an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness
• Practice positive interactions – lean on encouragement in place of judgment
• Impress responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks
• Act in the interest of the overall team

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of and experience with functional programming. (Scala, Python, Haskell, Kotlin, PHP)
• 2+ years of experience creating large-scale services and applications in distributed environments such as Azure and Amazon AWS
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed, elastic micro-service applications that self-heal in the event of failures
• Proficiency on Linux, Git, REST, Akka, and CI tools (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Computer Science / Electrical Engineering; Master’s Degree preferred
• Ability to decompose complex problems, troubleshoot issues and communicate solutions to the team and other stakeholders
• Demonstrated self-motivation to work independently as well as part of a high performing, diverse team
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience maintaining and improving Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery workflows
• Extraordinary sense of ownership and passion for writing world-class software
• Possess excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Possess excellent teamwork and partnering skills for cross-group collaboration
• Possess excellent leadership skills, ability to perform under the pressure and deliver technical solution
• Experience with Azure
• Experience with Kafka, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, or Mesos
• Experience with a 24/7 production environment
• Knowledge of analytics or Machine Learning workflows 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software development of commercial-grade systems 
• 4+ years of experience creating backend / server / algorithmic software utilizing Java and other languages that run on the JVM, but not including J2EE / JEE applications
• 2+ years frontend .NET and SQL experience

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Relativity has over 160,000 users in 40+ countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 70 Fortune 100 companies, and all of the Am Law 200. Relativity's cloud solution, RelativityOne, offers all the functionality of Relativity in a secure and comprehensive SaaS product. Our company has also been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for seven consecutive years.

If you’re ready to grow with us, we’d love to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.