Founding Staff Engineer - AI Paralegal (Sydney Hybrid)

CORTO; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid role

Social events & team activities

Gym membership or wellness perks

Time off & wellbeing focus

Access to LEAP Home program

Job summary

CORTO is hiring a founding backend engineer for AI Paralegal in Sydney. Join a small, agile team building the next generation of legal software at the AI-automation frontier.

You’ll design, build, and operate end‑to‑end AI paralegal workflows on AWS, shaping architecture and improving model accuracy in a high‑impact role. This hybrid, Sydney‑based position offers ownership from 0 to 1 and growth with a cutting‑edge startup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack experience in software development.
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and cloud services.
• Proficient in Python and preferably TypeScript; AI experience is a plus.
• Hands-on with LLMs or generative AI systems and deployment patterns.
• Strong knowledge of databases such as DynamoDB and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain applications and services powering AI Paralegal workflows from ingestion to delivery.
• Design, build, and maintain the frontend UX.
• Build multimodal LLM pipelines over legal documents using Claude on AWS Bedrock.
• Improve LLM accuracy with schema validation and retry loops.
• Instrument the pipeline with metrics on latency, retries, and token spend.
• Collaborate with legal domain experts to turn requirements into precise schemas and validators.

Skills

Full stack development

LLM integration

Python / TypeScript

Architecture design

Frontend/UX

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

AWS Lambda

ECS

AWS Bedrock

DynamoDB

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Python

Monitoring/Observability

Job description

CORTO is hiring a founding backend engineer for AI Paralegal in Sydney. Join a small, agile team building the next generation of legal software at the AI-automation frontier.

You’ll design, build, and operate end‑to‑end AI paralegal workflows on AWS, shaping architecture and improving model accuracy in a high‑impact role. This hybrid, Sydney‑based position offers ownership from 0 to 1 and growth with a cutting‑edge startup.