The role involves leading software development efforts, mentoring team members, ensuring application quality, optimizing performance, and innovating new software solutions.
Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.
Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.
Role Summary:
As a technical leader at Filevine, you will drive the evolution of our front-end ecosystem using TypeScript and SvelteKit. You’ll balance hands-on development of rich, accessible UIs with the high-level mentorship of engineering teams, shaping our design systems and UI architecture to scale alongside our growing product suite.
What You'll Do:
- Provide technical leadership and direction to front-end teams, offering constructive feedback to leaders and engineers.
- Mentor developers in modern front-end engineering practices and architecture.
- Build rich, performant user interfaces using TypeScript, Svelte/SvelteKit, and modern front-end tooling.
- Shape and evolve Filevine’s design systems, component libraries, and UI architecture.
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver intuitive, accessible, and responsive interfaces.
- Ensure software quality through automated testing, performance optimization, and robust UI architecture.
- Champion best practices in accessibility, maintainability, and front-end reliability.
- Contribute to or maintain component documentation using tools such as Storybook (nice to have) and visual regression workflows like Chromatic (nice to have).
- Lead initiatives in front-end modernization, tooling, and process improvement.
- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and strategies to elevate Filevine’s client experience.
- Drive architectural decisions that scale with Filevine’s rapidly growing product ecosystem.
- Analyze and resolve complex UI issues across browsers, devices, and user contexts.
- Support deployed applications and partner closely with backend teams to ensure smooth integration.
- Conduct thoughtful and detailed code reviews with an emphasis on clarity, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Leadership & Mentoring
Front-end Development
Quality Assurance & Performance
Innovation & Technical Ownership
Problem Solving & Support
Code Quality
What You Need:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial emphasis on front-end development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large initiatives independently or collaboratively.
- Expertise in TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks, ideally Svelte/SvelteKit (or strong experience in similar ecosystems such as React, Vue, or Solid).
- Experience with component-driven development and UI architecture.
- Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, or Storybook/Chromatic workflows (preferred).
- Knowledge of modern front-end build pipelines and package management, including experience with tools like Vite and PNPM.
- Experience working with cloud-based environments and source control systems like GitLab.
- Strong understanding of front-end performance, accessibility, testing, and the full SDLC.
- Experience with authentication standards such as OIDC or OAuth is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Compensation Information: $175,000 - $200,000
The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance.
Cool Company Benefits:
- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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