Founding Staff Engineer for AI Paralegal

Corto Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Startup environment

Career growth opportunities

Autonomy and impact

Job summary

Corto's AI Paralegal startup is seeking a founding engineer to build the next generation of legal software at the intersection of AI and automation. You will shape architecture, implement scalable services, and collaborate with legal-domain experts to translate requirements into robust systems.

You will join a small, fast-moving team in Sydney with hybrid arrangements, owning core backend components, ML-driven workflows, and serverless infrastructure on AWS Bedrock.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-stack software development.
• Experience with distributed service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with AI/LLM integration is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end applications powering AI Paralegal workflows.
• Design, build, and maintain the frontend UX.
• Build multimodal LLM pipelines over legal documents using Claude on AWS Bedrock.
• Improve LLM accuracy with validation and self-correcting retry loops.

Skills

Full-stack development

Architecture design

Cloud engineering

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS

DynamoDB

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Python

TypeScript

LLMs / Generative AI

Job description

Corto's AI Paralegal startup is seeking a founding engineer to build the next generation of legal software at the intersection of AI and automation. You will shape architecture, implement scalable services, and collaborate with legal-domain experts to translate requirements into robust systems.

You will join a small, fast-moving team in Sydney with hybrid arrangements, owning core backend components, ML-driven workflows, and serverless infrastructure on AWS Bedrock.