Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 160000 - 200000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 platformwhere 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 Filevines 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 Senior Software Engineer youll own major parts of our AI stack. Youll prototype zero-to-one workflows design multi-step and RAG-based pipelines and push features into production that real attorneys use within days not quarters. Youll work across backend orchestration retrieval and product-integrated AI systems.
Everything you ship will directly shape how legal teams review revise and negotiate contracts inside Word and the browser.
Responsibilities
- Own major product surfaces that rely on retrieval structured reasoning and multi-step AI pipelines
- Prototype evaluate and productionize new AI workflows for contract review clause-level analysis playbook enforcement and multi-document tasks
- Improve our internal LLM orchestration layer prompt-library evaluation tooling and RAG strategies
- Partner with founders and our in-house legal team to design and validate new features
- Build backend services that support multi-tenant enterprise customers and high-volume workloads
- Ship quickly: small PRs fast iteration cycles functional releases every week
Qualifications
- 7 years of engineering experience
- Strong backend engineering skills and ability to build production systems end to end
- Experience shipping ML or LLM-powered products at scale
- Experience with retrieval embeddings experimentation and evals
- Ability to design multi-step pipelines and agentic workflows
- Strong instincts around latency reliability and fallback strategies
- Ability to prototype in days and productionize in weeks
- High standards for correctness reliability and UX quality
- Bonus: Go Postgres/pgvector Cloud Run multi-provider LLM orchestration
What Youll Work On:
- Designing a multi-step agent that analyzes an entire contract applies playbooks generates redlines and formats them into Word-ready output
- Improving a retrieval layer that handles 300 page agreements or mixed corpuses of PDFs templates and prior negotiations
- Building a system that scores clause-level correctness using structured evaluation datasets
- Creating a streaming long-running workflow for contract review with checkpoints retries and deterministic outputs
- Designing a prompt-library and golden-file test suite that guarantees consistent outputs across multiple LLM providers
Compensation Information:$160000 - $200000 base
The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individuals location qualifications education work experience skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevines total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
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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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Empower your law firm and improve efficiency with Filevine's AI-powered legal case management software. From intake, legal drafting, calendaring, & more.
