Filevine · 2 days ago
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $180K/yr
7+ years expFilevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools, recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own major parts of the AI stack, prototyping workflows and pushing features into production that enhance legal processes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Document ManagementLegal TechProject ManagementSaaSSoftware
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Go
Next.js/React
Postgres/pgvector
Cloud Run
multi-provider LLM orchestration
Benefits
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
Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
Top-of-the-line company swag
Company
Filevine
Filevine provides a legal operating platform integrating AI for case, document, and lead management.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$636.08MKey Investors
Insight PartnersStepStone GroupSignal Peak Ventures
2025-09-23Series E· $260M
2024-06-01Series Unknown· $150M
2022-04-14Series D· $108M
Leadership Team
Nathan Morris
Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer
Jonathan Ord
Board Member
Recent News
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