Legalist is the world's first AI litigation finance firm. We source,
underwrite, and invest in the best lawsuits using cutting-edge
artificial intelligence technology. We're a small, fast-growing fintech
startup disrupting a booming new asset class, backed by top VC's in
Silicon Valley.
Join a team of engineers, lawyers, and data scientists to make
real-time investment decisions in a fast-paced environment. As featured
in the international press, including WSJ, The New Yorker, Above the Law
and Wired amongst others.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Candidate will be responsible for writing robust programs for
real-time scraping of data from various websites. Many different
strategies will be employed to achieve scraping goals so flexibility and
a spider-sense of how things could break is a must. This is a
challenging role that is a core piece of the business so accuracy,
consistency and robustness are a must.
Autonomy over a core product and data pipeline
Collaborate with other engineers and designers to develop and ship features
Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
Design and build internal tooling to improve development efficiency
Find and solve performance issues
Participate in code reviews
QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Web
fundamentals including HTTP, HTML5, CSS, DOM, JS. They will be a
proponent of Web standards, and follow proposed and emerging standards
closely. They will be familiar with common site structures and
navigation systems including client-side routing and patterns involving
modern front-end frameworks including React and Angular.
Experience working with data stores such as MySQL/PostgreSQL, or similar
Experience working with Cloud Computing technologies (e.g. AWS)
Backend engineering experience in Python/Django
Experienced with software engineering best practices - design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing etc.
Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
