Software Engineer, Product (Full-Stack)

Lawtrades•New York City, NY

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Lawtrades is redefining how legal work gets done. We pair an AI-native product with a vetted network of independent lawyers so companies can move with software speed while retaining expert judgment. The outcome: faster cycles, tighter risk, and a clearer path from request to result. We build end-to-end, not incremental. Our focus is turning frontier models into dependable, auditable workflows across contracts and marketplace operations. Reliability beats demos. Security and privacy are first-class; usability and measurable business impact decide what ships. We’re a small, product-obsessed team in New York. We work close to customers, move with urgency, and hold a high bar for craft. If you want real ownership and the chance to shape how lawyers collaborate with AI over the next decade, this is the place to do it. We’re profitable and trusted by 500+ companies—including Fortune 500 leaders—to power in-house legal work. As our first NYC-based Product Engineer, you’re the bridge between research, product, and real-world use. You’ll take ambiguous problems, prototype quickly, and harden the right solutions for production—owning the stack from the interface to the data and APIs. You’ll work directly with users, measure what matters, and iterate until the workflow is both fast and trustworthy. Success looks like this: you ship meaningful improvements weekly, raise reliability with instrumentation and tests, simplify complex flows, and leave the system cleaner than you found it. You set patterns the team adopts—on architecture, code quality, and product taste—and you’re comfortable operating from a problem statement, not a ticket queue.

Requirements

5+ years shipping production web products end-to-end (frontend + backend).
Expert in a modern front-end framework (Vue or React) plus Node and SQL; comfortable across the stack.
Strong product sense: you sweat UX, edge cases, and time-to-value.
Taste for clean architecture, testing, and operational excellence.
Communicates clearly; thrives in ambiguity; moves independently.

Nice To Haves

Shipped LLM-powered features (prompt/versioning, retrieval, basic evals).
GraphQL/Swagger, background jobs/queues, eventing, observability.
Experience in marketplaces or other multi-sided products.
Security/privacy-minded development in enterprise contexts.

Responsibilities

Turn rough ideas into working software in days, not weeks; take features from prototype to production.
Design clean, scalable web UIs and wire them to well-structured APIs and data models.
Build AI-infused product flows with guardrails and observability so they’re dependable at scale.
Instrument everything (analytics, logs, alerts) and drive reliability, performance, and quality.
Work across design, ops, and marketplace to ship outcomes, not just features.
Talk to customers weekly; run lightweight experiments; double-down on what moves the needle.
Improve the codebase: testing discipline, sensible abstractions, crisp documentation.