Product Software Engineer (Brightflag)

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.

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

Brightflag is growing. As a market leader, with a product that customers truly love, we’re scaling quickly. To continue to build and evolve our AI-first product we’re growing our Product & Engineering team. We have an exceptional team and a high bar. We challenge ourselves with ambitious goals, best practice standards and a drive for continuous improvement. If you want to grow, get better and accelerate your career within a driven Engineering team, Brightflag is the place for you.

As a Product 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. You will work on new features in an AI-native platform, and you’ll build them with AI-native tools too — our engineering team uses Claude Code as part of our daily workflow, reflecting how deeply AI is embedded in how we build, not just what we build. 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.

• Own features end-to-end, from design through implementation, testing, release and operation, shipping with minimal rework and meeting acceptance criteria; take ownership of scope without needing a senior to partition the work for you.

• Use Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow, to move faster, prototype solutions, and spend more of your time on the engineering problems that need real judgement.

• Collaborate closely with Frontend, Backend, QA, Product, and Data Science teams to deliver high-quality features and enhancements.

• Contribute meaningfully to the squad’s effectiveness - reviews, sprint planning, improving team tooling.

• Translate product and customer requirements into clear technical designs for assigned features, producing lightweight design docs or ADRs and articulating trade-offs clearly.

• Contribute clean, maintainable, well-tested code that keeps production defects low, that other engineers can easily build on, and that actively improves the reliability of features and services..

• Build observability, logs, metrics and alerts, into what you ship, and take responsibility for the services you own once they are in production.

• Respond effectively to incidents affecting your services, contribute useful post-incident analysis, and close out follow-up actions so issues don't recur (during normal working hours).

• Participate in code reviews, providing thorough and timely 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 refine our Agile development processes, raising risks and blockers early, and support our ongoing transition toward a fully automated CI/CD environment.

To be successful in the role, you need:

• 2-5 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)

• Familiarity with Agile software development frameworks (e.g., Scrum)

• Strong problem-solving abilities, with experience independently designing solutions for medium-sized features and diagnosing issues in unfamiliar codebases

• A collaborative and growth mindset, with a track record of taking ownership of scope without needing work broken down for you

• Good communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally, including giving thorough, timely code review feedback

• Experience writing unit and integration tests, and building observability (logging, metrics, alerting) into what you ship

• A quality mindset - demonstrated experience producing high-quality code that improves reliability of features

• Demonstrated ability to independently design solutions and produce design documentation

• Comfortable owning production services end-to-end, including incident response and post-incident follow-through

• Experience with, or enthusiasm for, AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code 

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 in AWS (or similar) and Elasticsearch

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. 

• 25 days of holidays

• Employer pension scheme.

• 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.  

• Wellbeing program & stipend.

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. 

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.

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.