Staff Software Engineer

Location: Illinois

Posting Type

Hybrid/Remote

Job Overview

Who We Are

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building technology that helps users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it with confidence. Our AI‑powered, cloud platform, Relativity aiR, transforms massive volumes of complex information into actionable insights for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other high‑stakes legal work where accuracy and trust are crucial.

The world’s largest law firms, corporations and government agencies rely on Relativity’s legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters. Beyond our commercial impact, we’re deeply committed to expanding access to technology for academic institutions through Relativity Academic and supporting pro bono legal work through Justice for Change.

What We Do

At Relativity, engineers don’t just write code, they harness AI tools to architect, optimize, and deliver scalable software faster and shape the future of legal technology. They shape how industries uncover critical insights, ensure compliance, advance access to justice and continuously evolve our platform using the latest technologies, including cloud-native architectures, AI capabilities, and modern developer tooling. Our AI powers privacy programs, identifies confidential information, and detects language indicating misconduct. We’re reimagining how legal professionals uncover truth at scale, and engineering is at the heart of that transformation.

If you’re passionate about solving hard problems, designing for scale, and building tools that matter, while working in a culture that values transparency, innovation, and shared success, Relativity offers the opportunity to make a measurable difference in the marketplace.

About the Role

Relativity's design system is moving to UX, and we are building its next generation. You will own its technical architecture: how the library is built, packaged, published, and consumed by every product team at Relativity, and how it stays correct as the product migrates to it. The framework is chosen, the first components exist, and it ships through our micro frontend. Everything past that will be owned by you: packaging, release and versioning strategy, and testing. You will also own the migration strategy for the libraries it replaces.

Job Description and Requirements

Own the technical architecture of the design system: module format and packaging, peer dependencies, the publish path to Artifactory and CDN, and how two versions of the library coexist on a single page under micro frontends.

Set the versioning, deprecation, and breaking-change policy for a library 60+ repositories depend on, and define the migration architecture that moves them across.

Define the build, release, and testing strategy, including automated visual regression and the token pipeline that keeps design and code from drifting.

Architect the library to be correctly consumable by AI coding agents, so generated frontend code is compliant and accessible by default rather than by manual review.

Define the accessibility standard the platform builds against, with conformance validated in the pipeline rather than caught downstream, and support the compliance obligations our customers require.

Own reliability and incident response across the new library and the legacy libraries, and build the severity and escalation model the team does not have today.

Resolve complex, cross-organizational technical problems through deep technical expertise, collaboration, and hands-on implementation.

Drive frontend engineering standards across teams through design and code reviews, patterns, documented standards, and coaching, and align technical execution with product strategy and delivery commitments.