Product Engineer (Frontend)

Alaro

10h•Hybrid

About The Position

Alaro is building the next generation of legal services, operating as an AI-native law firm. The company aims to leverage AI and data to transform the legal industry, which traditionally lags in technological adoption. Lawyers at Alaro spend less time on repetitive tasks and more on critical thinking and achieving better outcomes. Alaro was founded in April 2025, securing $2M in pre-seed funding and $7M in seed funding from a top-tier US VC. The product is actively used by the firm's lawyers, ensuring a direct feedback loop between product development and practical application. The company emphasizes a fast-paced work environment where progress is prioritized, but quality remains paramount. They foster a culture of high ownership and flexible schedules, trusting employees to manage their time effectively and take responsibility for their work. The company operates on an AI-native principle, integrating AI into all aspects of its operations, including its codebase and workflows, to facilitate human-agent collaboration. Alaro adopts a remote-first approach, maintaining close alignment through regular meetings and in-person gatherings for strategic planning and team building.

Requirements

Frontend product engineering experience with a focus on clarity, trust, and speed in production systems.
Ability to take end-to-end ownership and follow through on shipped work.
Experience designing frontend systems that can evolve quickly without becoming brittle.
Comfort in translating ambiguous product goals into clear, reliable user-facing workflows.
Deep care for UX clarity and trust, particularly in complex or high-stakes domains.
Excitement for building and iterating on the interaction layer between humans and AI agents.
Proficiency in Next.js and TypeScript.
Understanding of backend APIs and agent behavior to surface relevant information effectively.
Ability to make agent actions visible, reversible, and easy to reason about.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Cursor-like environment for legal work.
Familiarity with legal workflows and terminology.

Responsibilities

Design and build interfaces for lawyer-agent interaction, including chat, action suggestions, citations, and clear visibility into agent actions.
Develop reviewable and actionable outputs such as extracted clauses, summaries, research results, and intermediate work.
Build user interfaces for document review and editing in DOCX, incorporating features like diffs, apply/reject flows, comments, and collaboration.
Ensure document workflows meet legal realities, support multiple collaborators, and maintain high standards of correctness.
Create dashboards, matter views, timelines, and task states to help lawyers navigate complex cases efficiently and maintain context.
Develop scalable UI patterns, state management, and abstractions in Next.js and TypeScript.
Enable rapid shipping of new workflows and agent capabilities without requiring rewrites.