Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Join a small legal technology team building data infrastructure and AI-powered tools for legal research. You will help make a large body of U.S. case law more reliable, accessible, and useful through software and data services.

What You'll Do

• Build data pipelines that enrich legal documents with metadata, including relationships between court decisions.

• Develop systems that monitor and improve the reliability and accuracy of web-scraping pipelines.

• Optimize and evaluate services for citation extraction and resolution, as well as court hierarchy and authority analysis.

• Expose data services through APIs and other integration interfaces.

• Benchmark and evaluate core system capabilities using human review and synthetic data.

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of experience as a hands-on software engineer and technical generalist, ideally in a small, high-growth startup or similarly high-engineering-bar environment.

• Strong backend or data engineering fundamentals, with ownership of substantial projects, including greenfield work.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL, and the ability to build and deploy projects end to end on a preferred infrastructure stack.

• Experience with data pipelines and basic to intermediate infrastructure or DevOps work.

• Recent experience with modern engineering tools and practices; familiarity with statistics, machine learning, or AI is useful.

• A completed computer science degree and authorization to work without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $170,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Remote within the United States. Primary location: New York, New York.