Senior Software Engineer, Filevine
Backend
$160-180k
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
Be an early applicant
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
More information about location
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Law firms, corporate legal teams and government agencies are under increasing pressure to handle more work, more data and tighter timelines, all without increasing costs. As a result, demand is growing for legal technology that can automate routine tasks, organize complex information and also help laywers work faster and more accurately. AI has become a key part of this change, and today it's hard to find interest in legal tech that doesn't have AI at its core.
Filevine is a good example of how this shift is playing out, Founded in 2014, the company began as a software-as-a-service platform helping legal teams manage cases, documents, billing and payments in one place. Over time though, Filevine has expanded into what it now calls a Legal Operating Intelligence System, bringing intelligence into the full lifecycle of a legal matter. And in recent years, the focus has moved strongly toward AI, as most of the company's revenue comes from its AI products rather than from its original software.
This growth shows just how well its aligned with where the market is heading, and with $400M from major investors, it continues to expand its platform, adding AI tools that connect across legal workflows. By bringing together case management, depositions, contracts and drafting into a single system, Filevine has positioned itself as a central operating platform for modern legal teams.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$108m
SERIES D
Total funding: $825.6m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Short & long-term disability
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- Centrally located open office in Sugar House
- Company swag that will make your friends envious
- Opportunity to make an impact on Day 1
Company HQ
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, UT
Leadership
Ryan Anderson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ryan co-founded Filevine in 2014 and has served as the CEO since.
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