Software Engineer

The Opportunity

Brightflag is expanding our Engineering team in Ireland to build the next generation of our AI-powered legal management platform. As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a key contributor to a high-impact, fast-growing team delivering intuitive, innovative software used by major corporate legal departments worldwide.

You’ll own features end-to-end—from design to deployment—across our backend stack and see your work go live quickly thanks to our agile release process. In a culture that prizes creativity, accountability, and collaboration, you’ll help shape how our customers experience Brightflag and the value they derive from it.

Our engineers thrive on solving interesting problems and building something exceptional. The decisions you make will directly influence how hundreds of global customers’ legal departments work with their external law firms.

• Take ownership of key features from design through to deployment, contributing to both back-end and, when needed, front-end aspects of the Brightflag platform.
• Collaborate closely with Frontend, Backend, QA, Product, and Data Science teams to deliver high-quality features and enhancements.
• Translate product requirements into clear technical designs and efficient implementations, considering scalability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with appropriate unit and integration test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and adopting best practices from peers.
• Implement product features and build REST APIs using our Java tech stack focused on the Spring Framework, common open-source libraries, and MySQL database.
• Contribute to data modelling and reporting using the Elastic Stack, including creating Elasticsearch queries for dashboards and reports.
• Work within and help to refine and improve our Agile development processes, using best practices and clear communication to ensure requirements move from ideation to timely delivery.
• Support in our ongoing transition toward a fully automated CI/CD environment.

To be successful in the role, you need to have/be:

• 3-5 years of professional Java development experience
• Solid experience with the Spring Framework
• Good understanding of web applications, including exposing REST APIs & RESTful web services
• Experience with SQL databases (preferably MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Experience in AWS (or similar) and Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies (e.g., Scrum)
• Strong problem-solving abilities 
• A collaborative and growth mindset
• Good communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Experience writing unit and integration tests

The following are a bonus!

• Experience building SaaS products 
• Experience working in high-growth environments
• Exposure to Elastic Stack for data modelling and reporting
• Experience working in a Scrum/agile environment

We’re growing fast and so is the experience we can offer you:

• A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going.
• The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a high growth environment.
• Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them.
• A sound, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment.
• Competitive salary. 
• Employer pension scheme (effective from Jan 1st 2026).
• 25 days of holidays.
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection.
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns so you can balance life at home with life at work - come to the office, work at home… or enjoy a blend of both at your discretion. 
• The Tax-Saver or Cycle-to-Work Scheme. 

We are a diverse and inclusive bunch of people. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who make every day count and strive for constant improvement. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. 

This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland. Whether that be in the office remote from anywhere in Ireland, or a mix of office/remote work in Ireland, you choose what works best for your lifestyle. 

There will be travel to Dublin once a quarter for team and company meet-ups.

Your time is valuable. To help with your application, we advise that regrettably we cannot offer work permit sponsorship/ self sponsorship for this role. 

Hi, we’re Brightflag, the AI-powered, enterprise legal management platform that helps corporate legal departments operate with greater clarity, efficiency, and control.

Powered by our patented AI, which was developed with over 100,000 hours of legal and engineering expertise, and supported by our best-in-class Customer Success teams, Brightflag enables in-house legal teams to streamline operations, manage matters and spend, and collaborate more effectively with outside counsel.

Today, Brightflag is trusted by leading global organizations and forms part of the Legal & Regulatory division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services. You can learn more about Brightflag here.