Data Visualization Engineer

Remitly

1d • $115,400 - $192,300 • Remote

About The Position

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.

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 could be a fun project.
• 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.
• Reviewable code samples or community participation

Nice To Haves

• React or D3 expertise is preferred
• Python or Elasticsearch experience is a plus
• PostgreSQL experience is great; SQLAlchemy understanding is fantastic

Responsibilities

• 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level