Discernis · 1 day ago
Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expDiscernis delivers AI driven document intelligence for high stakes legal work, and they are seeking a Backend Engineer to evolve their production Python platform. The role involves designing and extending backend services, building APIs, and improving system performance and reliability.
Information Services
Hiring Manager
Robert Kwiatkowski
Responsibilities
Design and extend core backend services that power document ingestion, processing, and analysis
Build and maintain APIs used by our frontend and internal AI services
Develop robust pipelines for handling PDFs, Office files, email containers, and OCR driven workflows
Improve performance and scalability across database access patterns and background task systems
Strengthen reliability through thoughtful testing, observability, and clean service boundaries
Contribute to authentication, authorization, and secure system design
Work closely with search and AI engineers to support large scale indexing and retrieval
Qualification
Required
3+ years of professional Python backend experience
Strong experience with frameworks such as Flask or Django and relational databases
Experience with background processing systems such as Celery or similar
Familiarity with search systems like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
Track record of improving system quality, performance, and maintainability
Comfort operating in a fast moving product focused environment
Company
Discernis
Discernis helps law firms finish discovery faster with A.I. powered document review.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase