Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
Legal Tech • Software
Filevine is a top-rated cloud-based case management solution for small and midsize legal firms and legal professionals.
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will own major parts of the AI stack, prototype workflows, design pipelines, and build services for contract management and legal work. Responsibilities include enhancing retrieval processes and shipping production features quickly.
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 Software Engineer, you’ll own major parts of our AI stack. You’ll 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. You’ll 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, Next.js/React, Postgres/pgvector, Cloud Run, multi-provider LLM orchestration

What You'll 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: $150,000 - 250,000 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 individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s 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
 
Privacy Policy Notice
Filevine will handle your personal information according to what’s outlined in our Privacy Policy.
 
Communication about this opportunity, or any open role at Filevine, will only come from representatives with email addresses using "filevine.com". Other addresses reaching out are not affiliated with Filevine and should not be responded to.
 

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of engineering experience
  • Strong backend engineering skills
  • Experience shipping ML or LLM-powered products at scale
  • Ability to design multi-step pipelines and agentic workflows
  • Strong instincts around latency, reliability, and fallback strategies

Filevine Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Filevine and has not been reviewed or approved by Filevine.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as covering the major bases (medical, dental, vision) and is often framed as decent quality. In some cases, premiums and copays are portrayed as relatively favorable, suggesting tangible value from the plans.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is positioned as a standard, clearly offered benefit. The presence of parental leave alongside disability coverage signals baseline family-support provisions typical of growth-stage tech employers.
  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation is sometimes framed as fair or reasonable relative to role expectations, with technical roles in particular appearing closer to market-aligned ranges. This creates pockets where pay is perceived as competitive even if not consistently top-of-market across the company.

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The Company
HQ: Sugar House, UT
450 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

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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