Senior AI Engineer — Build Trustworthy AI Experiences

Checkbox; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Hybrid Sydney office

High ownership & impact

Collaborative, ambitious team

Global events

Job summary

Checkbox in Sydney is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI experiences, to help build the next generation of AI-powered product experiences across Checkbox. You’ll work primarily with TypeScript, React and Node.js, building user-facing AI experiences, backend services and workflow capabilities for legal teams.

This is not an AI research role. You’ll ship production-grade software, mentor others, and help turn AI concepts into reliable customer experiences within a fast-moving SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript experience across frontend and backend.
• Strong React experience and a good eye for clean, usable product experiences.
• Strong Node.js experience, including APIs, services and backend application design.
• Experience shipping production software in fast-moving product environments.
• Strong understanding of architecture, testing, observability, security and maintainability.
• Product-minded engineering judgement and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered product experiences using TypeScript, React and Node.js.
• Develop frontend interfaces that make AI interactions intuitive, transparent and trustworthy.
• Build backend services and APIs that support AI workflows, orchestration, retrieval, review and escalation.
• Partner with Product and Design to turn ambiguous AI ideas into clear, shippable product experiences.
• Integrate AI capabilities into real customer workflows across legal intake, triage, matter management and automation.
• Contribute to architecture decisions across scalability, reliability, security and maintainability.
• Write high-quality, tested and observable production code.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to strong engineering standards.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

SaaS

Product-minded

Mentorship

Job description

Checkbox in Sydney is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI experiences, to help build the next generation of AI-powered product experiences across Checkbox. You’ll work primarily with TypeScript, React and Node.js, building user-facing AI experiences, backend services and workflow capabilities for legal teams.

This is not an AI research role. You’ll ship production-grade software, mentor others, and help turn AI concepts into reliable customer experiences within a fast-moving SaaS environment.