Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.

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.

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.

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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

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