Discernis
Senior Software Engineer
$150K–$180K
New York City · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years shipping production systems; ideally at big tech, at multiple startups, or both.
About the job
Own and ship major parts of Discernis’s legal discovery platform, including architecture, roadmap, engineering practices, and customer-facing problem solving.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and roadmap for an area and deliver it.
- Review code, set engineering standards, plan sprints, scope projects, and make build-vs-buy decisions.
- Work with customers to investigate problems, and help interview and mentor as the team grows.
What they ask for
- 4+ years shipping production systems.
- Experience owning a system end to end, from design through on-call.
- Include one link to something you have built or owned when applying.
Nice to have
- Document processing or distributed data pipelines; on-prem or air-gapped deployment.
- LLM-powered applications in production.
Pay
$150K – $180K USD base salary
Tools
Python, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes (K8s), Vue.js
AI focus
Build AI for legal discovery; LLM-powered applications in production are a nice-to-have.
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