Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and own content APIs and retrieval components end-to-end, including versioned contracts, evaluation suites, and CI gates.
• Improve search relevance and ranking with research scientists; instrument services, monitor SLOs, and participate in on-call incident response.
• Provide technical direction, document decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production backend, API, or data-infrastructure systems, including end-to-end ownership.
• Mastery of Python, API design, and rigorous unit, integration, and evaluation testing; solid distributed-systems knowledge.
• Proficiency with AWS cloud services, Datadog, and CI/CD practices; demonstrated operational ownership and fluency with AI-assisted development.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of information retrieval, agentic AI tools/protocols, or search engines such as Vespa, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch.
• Experience in legal technology or other high-stakes information domains; experience with AI retrieval evaluation, infrastructure-as-code, or container orchestration.

Pay

$102,200 USD - $189,800 USD (base salary); $111,400 CAD - $161,400 CAD (base salary)

Tools

Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, AWS, Vespa, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Claude Agent SDK

AI focus

Build APIs and retrieval tools through which AI agents access legal content; improve retrieval and ranking; create evaluation datasets and CI gates; and use AI-assisted development as a primary workflow tool.