The Senior Software Engineer will design and build features for a legal workflow AI platform, focusing on full-stack development and system architecture, while collaborating with product teams and customers.
Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.
Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.
Role Summary:
As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the contract review and drafting team, you’ll design and build core systems that power our AI-native workflow engine. You’ll work across the stack: Word add-in surfaces, Next.js web app, Go services, LLM orchestration, document processing, and agentic systems. You’ll collaborate directly with product, design, and customers to ship features that materially improve how in-house legal teams review and negotiate contracts.
Responsibilities
- Build and own full-stack features across the Word add-in and the web application
- Architect and scale backend services (Go, Postgres, Cloud Run) that support multi-tenant AI workflows
- Work closely with AI engineers to productionize agentic systems, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, prompt libraries, and evals
- Collaborate directly with customers to understand workflows, gather requirements, and shape product direction
- Ship high-quality, reliable software quickly in a small, senior team
- Improve performance, latency, and reliability across our LLM orchestration layer
- Drive system design for new product lines built on top of the same backend platform
- Mentor engineers and help define engineering standards and best practices
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
- Strong experience with Go or a similar typed backend language
- Experience designing scalable systems (HTTP APIs, Postgres, Redis, Cloud Run or similar)
- Ability to architect multi-tenant, enterprise-grade systems
- Strong product instincts and experience shipping user-facing features end to end
- Experience integrating external APIs or LLM provider services
- Ability to work directly with customers to distill ambiguous workflows into clear requirements
- High bar for code quality, architecture, and correctness
- Comfort operating in a fast, iterative environment with high ownership
- Bonus: experience with Office add-ins, agentic workflows, or legal-tech systems
Cool Company Benefits:
- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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