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Filevine is a top-rated cloud-based case management solution for small and midsize legal firms and legal professionals.
The Role
The role involves leading platform engineering efforts, designing scalable systems, collaborating with ML teams, and mentoring other engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll build and evolve the foundation that the rest of Filevine’s engineering organization stands on. You’ll design scalable infrastructure, reliable systems, and automation that keeps our platform fast, stable, and ready for the next wave of growth. You’ll partner closely with ML teams to operate modern ML/AI pipelines, strengthen our MLOps layer, and push our platform forward.
This role isn’t about doing “DevOps tasks.” It’s about architecting systems, eliminating unnecessary toil, and making it easier and safer for every engineer to ship great software.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of critical platform features from design → implementation → operation
- Design scalable, resilient systems that support our engineering teams as we grow
- Build and maintain the infrastructure and automation that keeps Filevine running smoothly
- Partner with ML teams to run state-of-the-art ML infrastructure and pipelines
- Collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, future-proof solutions without the drama
- Review code thoughtfully, mentor engineers, and help set the standard for platform excellence
- Continuously improve systems, tooling, and processes to reduce complexity and friction
Qualifications
- 5+ years building and operating software systems from inception to release to maintenance
- Experience leading complex cross-team engineering efforts and designing scalable platform services
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation
- Comfortable reducing complexity and building systems that last
- Thrives in a remote, collaborative environment (async, clear communication, ownership)
- Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiar with or open to using: Python, Temporal.io, Terraform, Kubernetes (we care more about engineering skill than specific tools)
This opportunity is for independent contractors and is not intended to establish an employment relationship. Contractors are responsible for their own taxes and compliance with applicable laws in their jurisdiction.
This role is open exclusively to candidates currently residing in, or willing to relocate to, Czechia or Slovakia with the legal right to work in these countries. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applications from candidates based outside of these locations due to operational and regulatory requirements
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Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Python
Temporal.Io
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Filevine is case management software built for and inspired by real attorneys. As a fully-featured suite of tools, it comes ready to manage every part of a moving case. Assign tasks, upload files or images, monitor staff productivity, and communicate with your client directly from within their case file.
Our software is built on the truth that every law firm functions differently. That’s why Filevine is so customizable. Build new case-type templates, design automatic workflows, and receive customized reports on a schedule that fits your needs.
Accessing your information is never a problem, because Filevine is hosted on The Cloud. To ensure security, your law firm’s data is protected through state-of-the-art encryption on redundant servers. All you need to get started is an internet connection and your favorite web browser.
Learn more at filevine.com.
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