Mitratech

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving the complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.

As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!

Job Overview 

Principal Data Engineer

About Engineering at Mitratech Legal Solutions 

Mitratech's engineering organization is a collaborative and dynamic environment where engineers are empowered to drive technical direction and innovation. Our engineers are passionate about delivering high-quality products and solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers, and we're committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. 

About the Role 

Mitratech is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and this role requires someone who is adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape. If you’re a seasoned engineer with a passion for technical leadership, innovation, and collaboration — including building the data foundations that power trusted reporting and agentic AI-driven products — we’d love to hear from you. 

What You Will Do

•  Drive technical direction for a significant product domain or platform capability, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs 

•  Design and maintain data pipelines and reporting models that power trusted business metrics and increasingly feed agentic AI systems (e.g., RAG ingestion, embeddings, vector stores, AI agent workflows) 

•  Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, AI agents) as part of your own workflow, and help other engineers adopt agentic development practices effectively 

•  Reduce systemic complexity by identifying and leading architectural debt remediation, and developing strategies for ongoing technical debt management 

•  Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to inform multi-quarter roadmap feasibility, and provide technical guidance and oversight to ensure successful implementation 

•  Elevate engineering craft across multiple teams through RFCs, mentorship, and knowledge sharing, and develop training programs to improve engineering skills and knowledge 

•  Represent Mitratech’s technical capabilities externally, including speaking at conferences, contributing to open-source projects, and engaging with industry peers and thought leaders 

What We Are Looking For 

To be successful in this role, you will need: 

•  10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on technical leadership and architecture 

•  Deep understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, data warehousing, reporting, and data governance 

•  Strong technical expertise in SQL, PostgreSQL, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI tools, and analytics platforms 

•  Practical experience with AI/LLM-adjacent and agentic AI data work — e.g., RAG ingestion pipelines, embedding generation, vector store management, or building/operating AI agent workflows over data — using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as a regular part of the engineering workflow 

•  Working knowledge of modern cloud platforms such as AWS 

•  Experience with BI, reporting, dashboards, and customer-facing analytics 

•  Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with product, engineering, analytics, and business teams 

Nice to Have 

•  Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails and React 

•  Experience with a semantic or metrics layer (e.g., dbt Semantic Layer, headless BI) 

•  Understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and infrastructure-as-code 

The Stack Context 

•  Modern data stack: Fivetran, Airbyte, dbt, Snowflake, GitHub, Terraform, or similar tools 

•  Application context (nice to have): Ruby on Rails, React, or similar backend/frontend frameworks 

•  Data modeling: SQL, analytics models, documentation, testing, naming standards, and version control 

•  Infrastructure: cloud-based data infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud storage 

•  Data workflows: ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reporting, deployment, and change management 

•  Reporting focus: trusted metrics, scalable reporting models, dashboards, exports, and data quality 

•  AI surface: data pipelines and quality practices supporting AI/LLM and agentic AI use cases (RAG, embeddings, vector stores, AI agents) alongside traditional BI 

Why This Role 

This role offers a unique opportunity to drive technical direction and innovation at a rapidly growing company, while also mentoring and coaching engineers to improve their craft. As a Principal Data Engineer at Mitratech, you will have the chance to work on complex and challenging problems spanning trusted reporting and agentic AI systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and represent the company's technical capabilities externally. If you're looking for a role that offers a mix of technical leadership, data and reporting depth, agentic AI innovation, and collaboration, this could be the perfect fit for you. 

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.

As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!

Join Our Team and Shape the Future of Enterprise User Experience

Are you a visionary Senior Product Designer passionate about solving complex problems and elevating enterprise user experiences? Do you thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments where your decisions influence product strategy and your designs impact thousands of global users?

At Mitratech, we’re transforming how people interact with enterprise applications. We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just design interfaces—you design systems, shape workflows, and champion the voice of the user. In this role, you'll serve as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering, leveraging your expertise to craft intuitive, scalable, and technically feasible experiences.

If you’re driven by design excellence, cross-functional influence, and delivering work that has a measurable impact, this is the role for you.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

AI-Forward Design Culture

Join a team that isn't just using AI tools; we're building them. From AI-powered code handoff workflows to custom Claude skills and plugins, our designers are actively shaping what an AI-native design practice looks like. You won't be adopting AI in isolation; you'll be part of a team that's figuring it out together and setting the standard for the rest of the organization.

Customer-Centric Impact

Work on real, high-value problems that improve workflow efficiency, save time, and increase productivity for enterprise customers.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with product managers, engineers, and other designers to create world-class digital experiences grounded in strong UX principles and technical feasibility.

Meaningful Outcomes

Every project you deliver will have a clear business and user impact, and you’ll hear direct feedback from customers who rely on your improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Design for Complex Enterprise Features
• Own the end-to-end design process for medium-to-large product initiatives—driving discovery, workflow definition, interaction design, and high-fidelity visual design and prototyping. Use AI-enhanced tools to accelerate exploration and iteration where appropriate.
• Shape Product Direction Through Deep Collaboration
• Work closely with engineers, product managers, and other designers in an agile environment to design accessible, performant, and elegant interfaces that balance user needs with technical and delivery constraints. 
• Create and Refine Design Deliverables
• Produce user flows, interaction models, prototypes, interface comps, visual specs, and supporting documentation across multiple enterprise products—using AI tools to streamline research synthesis, generate prototypes, and explore ideas more rapidly.

• Own and Advocate for the User Experience
• Take full ownership of the UX for your product areas and proactively advocate for users, ensuring their needs lead design decisions while aligning with the realities of our technology stack and component libraries.

• Apply Modern UX & UI and AI-Assisted Expertise
• Use up-to-date knowledge of design systems, interaction patterns, accessibility standards, responsive layouts, and front-end capabilities to elevate implementation quality and usability—along with AI-powered design and research tools—to elevate implementation quality, speed, and usability.

• Bring Clarity to Ambiguity
• Independently investigate complex problems, surface assumptions, validate solutions with stakeholders, and turn abstract challenges into actionable design direction. Use AI tools to accelerate insight-gathering and pattern detection.

• Influence Product Strategy
• Frame user problems, communicate trade-offs, and present design recommendations that shape product priorities and near-term roadmaps.

• Experiment with AI-Native Workflows
• Actively explore and experiment with AI-native workflows — including using Claude Code to generate and hand off production-ready code directly from design artifacts.
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• Build and Scale AI Capabilities Across the Function 
• Build reusable AI skills and plugins that scale best practices across the design function, contributing to a shared toolkit that reduces manual effort and accelerates delivery.

• Partner Closely With Engineering
• Use tools like Claude, Figma Make, and Cursor to build interactive prototypes and provide clear, implementation-ready workflows. 

• Contribute to the Design System
• Improve and extend our design system to support consistency, scalability, and an efficient development pipeline across all product teams.

• Mentor and Elevate the Team
• Support other designers through critique, coaching, and knowledge-sharing, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and design excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–8 years of UX/Product Design experience, preferably in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Expert understanding of UX processes, interaction design fundamentals, and end-to-end design workflows, including how AI is reshaping each stage of that process, from discovery through delivery 
• Strong portfolio demonstrating ability to design for complex systems, including examples of how AI tools were used to accelerate, enhance, or scale the work. 
• Strong foundation in traditional user research methods, with hands-on experience using AI throughout the research process, from study design and data gathering to synthesis and insight generation, to produce faster, more defensible product decisions. 
• Mastery of core design tools such as Figma, including AI-native features and integrations, and working knowledge of adjacent tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma MCP that are increasingly part of the modern design-to-dev workflow.
• Deep experience with design systems, from consuming to contributing at scale, including exploring how AI can automate component generation and accelerate system maintenance.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to present design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to operate autonomously and manage multiple workstreams, including knowing when to apply AI to accelerate decisions and when human judgment and craft should lead. 
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern component libraries, with an ability to work alongside AI code generation tools to produce and review implementation-ready outputs.
• Ability to craft creative solutions while working within existing frameworks and constraints.
• Experience collaborating with and influencing US-based teams.

Education & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field preferred.
• All applicants must provide a portfolio showcasing visual and interaction design, as well as user-centered problem-solving work.

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.