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Sr. Software Engineer Backend

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading or both content and technology If yes were looking for you.

The team is seeking a creative backend engineer to join the team behind CoCounsel. You will help build applications that interact with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that deliver cutting-edge and time-saving solutions to attorneys all around the country. CoCounsel is already capable of writing legal research memos summarizing and reviewing documents and red-lining contracts just to name a few capabilities--all in minutes not days or weeks. And were just getting started. As a Software Engineer Backend you will develop the systems that orchestrate our users interactions with LLMs smaller ML models and other critical services. Working closely with prompt engineers and other subject matter experts in the company the systems you develop will unlock much of the value presented by LLMs. Our ideal candidate is a dependable backend engineer who is fluent in Python HTTP APIs and SQL.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Sr. Software Engineer Backend you will

• Write Python API server code that handles requests from a front-end client (or many front-end clients)
• Develop novel client code suitable for a high-volume production environment
• Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers
• Utilize the latest and greatest LLM models and services
• Empower prompt engineers and other SMEs by developing intuitive prompting frameworks.
• Write SQL queries and occasionally design schema
• Participate in and contribute to high level architecture discussions within the Backend/Prompting team and across other team

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Sr. Software Engineer Backendif your background includes

• At least four years of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team.
• Strong Python HTTP API and SQL skills are required.

• Preferred:

• Experience using large language models through code (such as model services from OpenAI Anthropic or Cohere; and/or open source models such as Llama and Mistral).
• Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment.

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Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.

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