[Hiring] Data Visualization Engineer @Remitly

Role Description

Use your knowledge of JavaScript and React, Python, and key information analytics design and usability concepts to improve Lex Machina's industry-leading platform as we bring Legal Analytics to all legal practice areas and state courts.

• Apply design patterns and principles to ensure that users get the most complete, accurate picture of a complicated legal data set at a glance.
• As a member of our tight-knit remote product and engineering team, you will work with in-house legal experts, customers, and our front-end and back-end teams to integrate new legal content and improve our analytics.
• Applicants are requested to provide a link to their portfolio.

• Write code using JavaScript, React, D3, and SVG to display complex legal data in information-rich visualizations for easy customer use.
• Write code using Python and Pyramid to retrieve and arrange data for best use in visualizations.
• Design with an eye to accessibility, usability, and positive user experience.
• Work with our legal experts to integrate new legal subjects and cases into a multi-use front end ecosystem.
• Spend time learning about new technologies to improve our visualization techniques.
• Collaborate with Natural Language Processing Engineers to decide how best to incorporate newly extracted information.
• Your code will be reviewed by other members of the engineering team, and you’ll review their code too.

Qualifications

• Design and develop information-rich analytics software professionally for 3+ years.
• Write code in one of: JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc., as well as HTML and CSS/SASS.
• Arrange complex bodies of legal data into useful and easily understandable visualizations.
• Work well in a team-oriented organization due to your excellent communication skills and empathy.
• Bachelor's degree in visual communications, graphic design, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, code academy, or work experience.
• React or D3 expertise is preferred.
• Python or Elasticsearch experience is a plus.
• PostgreSQL experience is great; SQLAlchemy understanding is fantastic.
• Reviewable code samples or community participation.

Requirements

• Design and develop information-rich analytics software professionally for 3+ years.
• Write code in one of: JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc., as well as HTML and CSS/SASS.
• Arrange complex bodies of legal data into useful and easily understandable visualizations.
• Work well in a team-oriented organization due to your excellent communication skills and empathy.
• Bachelor's degree in visual communications, graphic design, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, code academy, or work experience.
• React or D3 expertise is preferred.
• Python or Elasticsearch experience is a plus.
• PostgreSQL experience is great; SQLAlchemy understanding is fantastic.
• Reviewable code samples or community participation.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs.
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits.
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts.
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice.