Delivery Engineer

Cambridge, United Kingdom
14 months ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Posted
6 Jun 2025 (14 months ago)

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Luminance, the pioneer of Legal-Grade™ AI for enterprise. Backed by internationally renowned VCs and named in both the Forbes AI 50 list of ‘Most Promising Private AI Companies in the World’ and Inc. 5000’s ‘Fastest Growing Companies in America’, Luminance is disrupting the legal profession around the globe.

As a Delivery Engineer, you are responsible for the software development lifecycle (SLDC) that results in packaged releases of Luminance software that can be distributed to our client base. During your day-to-day you will ensure that the lifecycle runs efficiently and to a high standard, driving processes forward to help meet commercial goals and adding assistance and guidance to the tech team when you come across inefficiencies or bottlenecks. Your long-term responsibilities are to analyse the SDLC for weak points and propose or build human and/or automation solutions that provide long term benefit to the efficiency, reliability and visibility of the SDLC. If you are excited about this role but your skill or experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

At Luminance we are dedicated to building and promoting an inclusive workplace where everyone can flourish. You might just be who we’re looking for, for this role or another – enthusiasm is by far the most important requirement for any applicant to Luminance!

Desired Skills

    • Technically highly proficient
    • Can build if required, but more importantly you know what good looks like and are able to direct other teams as a result
    • Teamwork:
    • Breadth of operation
    • Highly empathetic to different teams' needs
    • Understanding of Luminance people and product
    • Communication:
    • Can organise and simplify information and summarise/translate to different stakeholders
    • Calm under pressure
    • Customer focused
    • Confident/Self-Belief/Assertive when right
    • Project Management
    • Pragmatism - the ability to balance delivery vs quality pressures
    • Strong work ethic
    • A sense of urgency in their work
    • Happy to get stuck into something and find out all the details
    • Reliable - will follow something through to completion and not be satisfied until it is
    • Adaptable - can learn quickly on the fly to facilitate good decision making

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