Staff Engineer

Job OverviewStaff Engineer – The role shapes a resilient, secure, and scalable platform that powers the entire engineering organization at Jus Mundi. The position sits at the intersection of long‑term technical vision, day‑to‑day operational excellence, and product impact.About Jus MundiFounded in 2019, Jus Mundi is a mission‑led legal‑technology company headquartered in Paris with offices in New York, London, and Singapore. We serve over 150,000 users worldwide, including top law firms, multinational corporations, and government bodies. By combining legal expertise with AI, we provide global legal intelligence, data‑driven arbitration, and business‑development services.What Makes Jus MundiFriendly, committed, explorative, and exceller‑or values foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth.Legal is the next frontier for GenAI; we build transformative AI that makes the most impact.Product‑market fit secured worldwide; partnerships with leading law firms and corporates.Series B funding of $20 million supports growth and innovation.Engineers and lawyers work together on LLM‑based legal tech.Exceptional team with talent from Google, Amazon, and other industry leaders.Job DescriptionAs a Staff Engineer, you will lead the shift from reactive operations to proactive engineering, setting the bar for stability, security, and developer experience across the company. The role is an individual‑contributor senior position focused on architecture, standards, mentorship, and product‑oriented leadership.ResponsibilitiesDrive architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple teams.Design scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems using proven patterns (API versioning, asynchronous messaging, caching, sharding).Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to balance technical trade‑offs with business value.Define and enforce reliability, security, testing, and deployment standards.Lead the transition toward fully automated, self‑healing, immutable infrastructure.Advocate for platform‑wide initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and developer productivity.Mentor engineers and act as a trusted technical advisor.Qualifications10+ years of professional software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 3 years in senior or staff roles.Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating fault‑tolerant distributed systems.Strong product mindset and ability to align technology with business outcomes.Clear communication of technical trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical audiences.Expert proficiency in backend architectures, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Ansible.Experience leading complex projects without managerial authority.Fluent in English.Technical Focus AreasDeveloper experience and platform enablement: CI/CD pipelines, standardized APIs, observability, documentation.Security by design: mitigating DDoS, scraping, and other threats architecturally.Operational excellence: automated remediation, elimination of manual interventions, technical debt reduction.Code quality, testing strategies, deployment best practices, and system observability.Bonus SkillsExperience with SaaS or AI‑powered platforms.Background in security engineering or large‑scale platform engineering.Legal‑tech or highly regulated environment experience.Recruitment ProcessIntroductory call (30 min).Management interview with CTO and Head of Infrastructure (1 h).Use‑case & technical Q&A with leads (1 h 30).Team‑fit meeting (45 min).Final call with CEO or VP of People (30 min).BenefitsHybrid working: 2 days remote, rest on site.5 weeks annual vacation, flexible.100 % coverage of private health insurance for you and children.60 % company‑funded restaurant vouchers (Swile).Company summits (JM Fest), ClassPass membership, global relocation assistance.Up to 8 weeks remote per year, full training support.Inclusive, diverse culture.Additional InformationContract: Full‑TimeLocation: Paris, FranceExperience: >10 yearsPossible partial remote. #J-18808-Ljbffr