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DeepJudge is Switzerland's leading AI and ICT scale-up transforming how law firms and legal departments access and leverage their institutional knowledge. Founded by former Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich and backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, the company builds the intelligence layer powering the legal industry. The platform makes decades of institutional expertise—work product, precedent, and experience—instantly accessible through enterprise search and AI infrastructure, enabling firms to automate workflows and build knowledge-powered applications. DeepJudge is trusted by leading law firms including Freshfields, Gunderson Dettmer, Holland & Knight, Arent Fox, and Cozen O'Connor.
You will join as a Platform Engineer / Developer Experience Engineer, owning and maintaining the systems that help the engineering team move quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role spanning build systems, CI pipelines, testing infrastructure, dependency and vulnerability management, and internal developer tooling. You will combine operational ownership with deeper system improvement: keeping critical processes reliable while identifying and removing recurring sources of friction.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and maintaining build systems, CI pipelines, testing infrastructure, and internal tooling to keep engineering workflows reliable and efficient
- Helping and enabling other engineers by identifying recurring friction points and designing solutions to remove them
- Managing vulnerability and dependency management
- Reviewing code and contributing to high standards of code quality and maintainability
The ideal candidate understands that an internal platform is a product: solutions must be reliable, ergonomic, well documented, and easy to adopt. You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent debugging instincts and a genuine interest in building tools and workflows for other engineers.
The office is located 5 minutes walking distance from Zurich central station, with primarily on-site work.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Developer Experience Engineer
- Proficiency in at least two of: build systems, continuous integration, testing, observability, dependency and vulnerability management, release workflows, or internal tooling
- Comfortable working with Python tooling and packaging, including dependency management and the broader Python developer ecosystem
- Genuine interest in building tools and processes that help other engineers move faster
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent debugging instincts
- Broad engineering judgment and curiosity
- Nice to have: Experience with tooling, packaging, and dependency management in JavaScript, Rust, Go, or other language ecosystems
- Nice to have: Experience working with Kubernetes, including deploying services and debugging running workloads
