Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build the legal tech platform powering the next generation of AI-native law firms. You'll own the development of secure client portals and enterprise-grade systems - from architecture to production.

This opportunity is ideal for engineers who want broad scope, high ownership and move nimbly across lanes. You'll work across AI systems architecture and full-stack engineering - eval systems, retrieval, agent orchestration, and optimization, alongside the APIs, data models, and systems that power the core platform.

This is an in-person role - you'll be on-site at our NYC office 5 days a week.

What You’ll Do

Frontend Architecture

• Translate the design system into components and tokens that make the next screen fast to ship and beautiful by default, by a person or an agent
• Partner with design on what AI-native interfaces should be in a high-stakes domain: progressive disclosure, streaming states, and the patterns nobody's figured out yet
• Define the contracts between backend and UI - data fetching, caching, state boundaries, the choices that make the design hold up against real data
• Own the screens clients and attorneys live in, where a well-set page turns a dreaded process into one that actually feels good to use

Product Engineering

• Own end-to-end features across our legal tech platform - client portals, case management, and the workflows lawyers and clients depend on daily
• Design production-grade APIs, data models, and permission systems for a regulated, high-trust domain

Agent Platform

• Eval systems, retrieval, and agent orchestration - building the infrastructure that measures and improves how our AI agents perform
• Harness engineering - building the tooling and guardrails that let the rest of the company build securely, reliably, and self-serve

Core Platform & Infrastructure

• Database design and backend architecture
• Deploy and operate services on cloud infrastructure

Must-haves

• 10+ years building production software, with demonstrated depth in at least one area (backend systems, infra, ML/AI systems, frontend or similar)
• Proven track record delivering features that produce measurable business outcomes
• Comfort with relational database design and data modeling
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on a major cloud platform
• Fluent with AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow
• A track record of self-teaching your way into unfamiliar systems and shipping there
• First-principles and systems thinking: you can reason about a system you didn't build, from the database up through the API to the product surface
• Familiarity with our stack - TypeScript, React, GCP, PostgreSQL

Nice-to-haves

• Deeply engaged with the AI tooling ecosystem - you follow new model releases, experiment with new tools as they land, and stay current out of genuine curiosity
• Experience with eval systems, retrieval, agent orchestration OR ML in production
• Background building client portals, CRMs, or case management systems
• Familiarity with legal tech or other regulated industries

This Is for You If

• You treat AI tools as core to how you architect and ship software.
• You want to build infrastructure that makes legal services more accessible to people.
• You thrive with ownership and prefer outcomes over process

This Is Not for You If

• You need detailed processes and defined guardrails to do your best work.
• You prefer significant direction and oversight over autonomous decision-making.
• You're earlier in your career with AI-augmented development workflows.