LegalZoom Careers

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Overview   

LegalZoom is looking for talented, passionate, and driven engineers to join the Product Experiences team and help support our mission of 'Democratizing Law'.    

LegalZoom has helped millions of customers become business owners by enabling them to #makeitofficial with business formation solutions such as an LLC or Corporation. These SMBs look to LegalZoom when taking the next steps on their journey of running a business, such as getting the right business licenses, opening a business checking account or creating a new company website – this is where our secure, trusted partner ecosystem intersects with the LZ customer experience, enabling LZ to deliver those customer needs via Strategic Partners.   

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is a self-starter and can learn quickly. Your job will be to help roll out new software systems by inserting directly into execution teams in order to spread and evangelize the latest and greatest technologies. 

The ideal candidate has a strong background in software design, developing and managing the delivery of highly-scalable, micro-services driven, cloud-based systems, and leveraging a combination of frontend and backend technologies running in containers.

Please note: We have multiple openings for a variety of teams within Product Experiences and across our engineering team.

You will

• Help introduce new technologies to engineering teams, taking part in the training, adoption, and execution of new platforms
• Work closely with other engineering teams to gain bottom-up consensus in delivering technology solutions
• Full-stack hands on development
• Design and communicate solutions that help software engineers deliver to growing business needs
• Develop a deep understanding of the system, write technical specifications, mentor development team, enforce coding standards
• Drive the DevOps culture, taking quality into your hands, enabled by automated testing and continuous integration
• Present technological solutions to IT leadership that communicate the value, intent, and tradeoffs of your approach
• Build and foster stakeholder relationships both within your team and among others
• Contribute to the department’s identity, standards, guidelines, and best practices

You have 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field required
• 10+ years of intense technical experience in the areas of web development and application integration, with a preference for 3+ years working in the role of principal or staff engineer in a high-transaction, fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Previous experience as a technical leader and/or leading an agile/scrum team
• Proven success implementing client side MVVM frameworks such as Angular or React as well as expert proficiency with JavaScript
• Experience building out design systems, pattern libraries, and/or style guides

LegalZoom is a remote-first company and the national range for this role is ($126,000 - $270,000). Actual compensation offered will depend on several factors including but not limited to: geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, and/or other business and organizational needs. In addition, an annual bonus, incentive bonus and/or restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package. You will also receive a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits as seen below.

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k, With Matching Contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Plus other wellness benefits to include:
• Fertility
• Mental Health
• One Medical
• Wellness reimbursement of up to $250

For onsite roles or roles that require periodic onsite visits, LegalZoom requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before starting work, unless precluded from doing so by applicable law. The CDC currently defines “fully vaccinated” as two weeks after the second dose for Pfizer and Moderna, and two weeks after the single dose of Johnson & Johnson. LegalZoom will require proof of vaccination before a successful applicant’s first day of work, and will consider requests for exemption from this requirement during the offer phase (1) as a reasonable accommodation for medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs where the accommodation would not LegalZoom undue hardship or pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others, or (2) for other reasons under applicable law.

Join us in making a difference as we build our future and help ensure access to professional legal advice to all! LegalZoom is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.  LegalZoom prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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