Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack / AI-Native)

Zinda Law Group, PLLC•Austin, TX

About The Position

ZLayt AI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and ship core features for its AI-powered legal technology platform. This is an individual-contributor role with meaningful ownership and autonomy, working directly with engineering and product leadership. The engineer will help shape the platform’s architecture and engineering standards while building production-ready frontend and backend applications, AI-powered capabilities, and scalable SaaS infrastructure. The role emphasizes hands-on development, practical technical decisions, and fast delivery while maintaining quality and security.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant full-stack development experience.
Proven experience building and shipping production SaaS applications.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js.
Strong backend development experience using Node.js, Python, or comparable technologies.
Experience designing REST APIs, working with relational databases, and building integrations.
Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Demonstrated ability to independently own features from concept through production.
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or comparable solutions.
Strong understanding of testing, debugging, security, and performance optimization.
Experience working in fast-paced environments with changing priorities.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience working at an early-stage SaaS startup.
Experience building multi-tenant software platforms.
Experience integrating LLM APIs, AI agents, or workflow automation.
Experience with AI orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or tool calling.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated QA, and infrastructure as code.
Familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, or other data-security and compliance frameworks.
Experience building legal technology, healthcare technology, or other complex workflow products.
Experience working directly with founders or small product teams.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain production-ready frontend and backend applications.
Take features from requirements through architecture, development, testing, and deployment.
Develop interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, databases, and application infrastructure.
Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code.
Use AI development tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
Integrate large language models and AI capabilities into production applications and develop AI-powered workflows and automation.
Evaluate AI technologies and recommend practical applications while maintaining engineering quality.
Help design a secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platform, considering performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
Collaborate on technical architecture and infrastructure decisions, build for a growing customer base, and identify technical bottlenecks.
Own feature quality; implement automated tests, participate in code reviews, diagnose and resolve production bugs, and protect security and data integrity.
Deliver committed work on time and communicate blockers early.
Work with product managers, engineering leadership, and business stakeholders to translate business problems into technical solutions.
Challenge unnecessary complexity, take initiative, and help establish practical engineering standards as the company scales.