Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Everlaw • Oakland, CA

3d • $173,000 - $251,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Everlaw is seeking a Senior Software Engineer experienced in building and shipping user-facing software within complex systems. This role involves transforming legal technology using software and AI, encompassing areas like search, databases, data visualization, machine learning/AI, real-time collaboration, and front-end user interfaces. The position offers significant autonomy across the full stack, with encouragement to explore the entire system. The company values self-driven engineers who are passionate about their craft, write clean code, use appropriate tools, and avoid dogma. The team culture fosters ownership of significant features, high-quality code, continuous learning, and enjoyment in the creative process of building smart, scalable, reliable, and secure software. Everlaw supports and empowers its team members through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback, tackling challenging engineering problems.
Everlaw's mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. The company culture is open and vibrant, with a commitment to professional growth, offering an annual learning and development stipend, regular career goal check-ins with managers, and mentoring from experienced engineers. They encourage applications even if candidates don't meet every single qualification, believing in the value of diverse skills and experiences.

Requirements

• A BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent coursework.
• Experience and proficiency in coding in a language such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, Go or Rust.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and fundamental computer science concepts, relational databases, API design, and building user interfaces.
• At least 5 years of experience building distributed systems in the cloud with service based architecture, using frontend frameworks to create rich, deep, web applications, and experience with the best practices to test, maintain, and launch cloud based software.
• At least 1 year of experience leading or coordinating multi-developer efforts, including planning and technical breakdown.
• Work experience with AI development tools like Cursor and Claude Code, accelerating your planning, coding, and testing of production features.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with building software on the AWS platform.
• Familiarity with MySQL, Postgres, or vector databases.
• Familiarity with React.
• Familiarity with applied usage of AI.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing features that represent the core of our product, including document and image/multi-modal processing, collaborative review tools, organization, translation tools, search, review, and more.
• Use AI technologies to find the evidence rapidly such as document classification, predictive coding, transfer learning and LLMs.
• Collaborate with one or more of the Product, Design, Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, and DevOps teams to build out and implement new features that are used in our production environments.
• Help with scaling our system to larger datasets with hundreds of millions of documents.
• Provide Technical Mentorship to other engineers by both sharing your technical knowledge and becoming an expert in an area of our code base.
• Be a Code Reviewer by reviewing code developed by others using your knowledge of programming languages, design patterns, and best practices.
• Fix defects in our product by triaging product or system issues and writing code to debug, track and resolve these issues.
• Provide on-call support for the product by answering questions from customers, triaging defects and exceptions, and carrying the pager.
• Contribute to documentation for internal engineering consumption or for external the Everlaw platform.
• Do technical interviews to help us recruit engineers and grow the team.

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $173,000 - $251,000.
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree