Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer

Lighthouse•San Francisco, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a senior or staff-level full stack engineer to build the systems and interfaces that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S. Our stack is React, TypeScript, and Tailwind on the frontend; Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL on the backend. You'll work across the entire system, from our internal case management tools and applicant-facing portal to the backend APIs, event pipelines, and AI agents that power them. Some of the problems ahead of us: Building agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step legal workflows end-to-end: drafting, reviewing, filing. Redesigning our task and workflow orchestration to be more robust and scalable. Improving the architecture of our backend services, event system, and scheduled job infrastructure. Shipping polished, fast interfaces for both our internal legal-ops team and our customers.

Requirements

6+ years shipping product across frontend and backend.
Comfortable working across TypeScript, Python, and React.
Experience leading projects end to end across the whole stack and shipping to a large customer base.
Ability to take a hard problem in a complex, unfamiliar system and drive it to a working solution.
High agency, especially for independent research and problem-solving.
Attention to detail: clean APIs, fast UIs, well-structured data models.

Responsibilities

Work across the entire system, from internal case management tools and applicant-facing portal to backend APIs, event pipelines, and AI agents.
Build agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step legal workflows end-to-end: drafting, reviewing, filing.
Redesign task and workflow orchestration for robustness and scalability.
Improve the architecture of backend services, event system, and scheduled job infrastructure.
Ship polished, fast interfaces for internal legal-ops team and customers.