Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Filevine
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 160,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Lead backend and AI-focused development to scale Filevine’s legal platform. You’ll own multi-step AI pipelines, retrieval and RAG workflows, and productionize new contract-analysis features for enterprise customers, working across backend, orchestration, retrieval, and product-integrated AI systems. Everything you ship will shape how legal teams review, revise, and negotiate contracts inside Word and the browser.

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Filevine
Filevine
7 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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Job Summary

Lead backend and AI-focused development to scale Filevine’s legal platform. You’ll own multi-step AI pipelines, retrieval and RAG workflows, and productionize new contract-analysis features for enterprise customers, working across backend, orchestration, retrieval, and product-integrated AI systems. Everything you ship will shape how legal teams review, revise, and negotiate contracts inside Word and the browser.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key 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 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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 200,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionMaternity LeavePaternity LeaveDisabilityTime Off

Key Requirements

  • •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
Experience:7+ yearsAISaaSEnterprise softwareLLMRetrieval
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoNext.jsReactPostgresPgvectorCloud RunLLM orchestration

Company Brief

Filevine
Provides cloud-based legal case management and practice management software for law firms and legal departments, offering document management, communication, reporting, and workflow automation to streamline case handling and client collaboration.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, United States
Founded: 2014
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