Senior Member of Technical Staff

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Build and maintain reliable APIs, backend services, and document-processing workflows that support research, drafting, review, and completed legal work.
• Own core product features throughout the development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through release, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Integrate AI and large language model capabilities into practical production workflows, with a strong focus on quality, performance, reliability, and predictable behavior.
• Develop and improve user-facing interfaces for complex document-related tasks, working across the technology stack to create intuitive and effective experiences.
• Translate user and business needs into clear engineering plans while evaluating technical tradeoffs and communicating the reasoning behind key decisions.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and legal-domain experts in a distributed, cross-functional environment to deliver meaningful product improvements.
• Investigate production issues, optimize system performance, and strengthen testing, monitoring, reliability, and overall code quality.
• Contribute to engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, debugging, system improvements, and continuous iteration after product launches.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and maintaining production web applications or services, supported by strong software design and engineering fundamentals.
• Strong programming abilities in a modern language such as Python or TypeScript, with the ability to produce maintainable and production-ready code.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, distributed backend systems, or related technologies, including designing and operating reliable services.
• Experience developing document-processing workflows and integrating AI or LLM capabilities into production applications.
• Practical knowledge of software testing, code review, debugging, performance optimization, monitoring, and improving systems after launch.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a distributed team.
• Experience with frontend development, complex data or security requirements, legal technology, workflow automation, or related domains is considered valuable.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment where product and technical decisions require balancing reliability, usability, performance, and user needs.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of $180,000–$250,000 USD, depending on skills, experience, and role scope.
• Remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Significant ownership over engineering initiatives and direct input into product and technical decisions.
• Opportunity to work on practical AI applications, document-processing technology, APIs, backend systems, and user-facing product experiences.
• Exposure to complex workflows and the opportunity to build technology designed to make demanding professional processes more reliable and efficient.
• Collaborative environment with distributed, cross-functional teams and substantial individual responsibility.