46 offices nationwide Hybrid Full-time USD 180,000 – 250,000 / year

Wilson Elser is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Act as a principal technical authority for full stack and cloud-native development initiatives.
  • Define and guide architectural direction and long-term technical planning for enterprise systems.
  • Develop and advocate for consistent engineering standards, design patterns, and coding practices.
  • Support teams in technical evaluations, design reviews, code quality, and solution planning.
  • Assess new technologies and tools to enhance development efficiency and system capabilities.
  • Build, test, and maintain full stack applications, APIs, and integrated enterprise solutions.
  • Create responsive and user-friendly front-end interfaces using current frameworks and tools.
  • Engineer scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-based integrations.
  • Lead efforts to modernize outdated systems and transition workloads to cloud environments.
  • Enhance system performance, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Advance cloud engineering practices using Microsoft Azure and cloud-native platforms.
  • Design and manage CI/CD workflows, automated deployments, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Bicep.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to strengthen deployment automation and monitoring.
  • Support platform engineering to improve system resilience and developer efficiency.
  • Drive containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Advocate for secure coding and contribute to a strong Secure Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Lead early-stage security practices such as code scanning, dependency checks, and vulnerability fixes.
  • Work with security teams to address risks in applications and infrastructure.
  • Promote automated testing, observability, and quality assurance across the development lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers in architecture, coding standards, DevOps, and cloud technologies.
  • Partner with product, business, and technical teams to turn requirements into technical designs.
  • Explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Align engineering projects with business strategy in collaboration with leadership.
  • Cultivate a culture centered on innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — 46 offices nationwide

About company
Wilson Elser
Wilson Elser is a leading defense litigation law firm with more than 1400 attorneys in 46 offices throughout the United States. Founded in 1978, the firm ranks among the top 100 law firms identified by The American Lawyer and 36 in the National Law Journal’s survey of the nation’s largest law firms.
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Category fullstack
Posted 5 days ago