Legal Tech Engineer: Automate & Innovate Legal Workflows

Goodwin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Back-up care

Paid time off

Professional development

Employee discounts

Wellness program

Job summary

Goodwin’s Global Operations Team seeks a Legal Engineer to design and build technology-enabled legal solutions at the intersection of law and software. You will collaborate with lawyers, knowledge management, and Digital & Technology teams to create tools that make legal workflows more efficient and scalable using automation and AI.

Ideal candidates combine software engineering with in-depth legal workflow understanding, and can translate complex processes into technical requirements while

Qualifications

• JD or prior experience practicing law or equivalent deep legal domain expertise.
• Experience with legal tech platforms such as iManage, NetDocuments, Litera.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, NLP, or LLM-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications and tools supporting legal workflows.
• Develop solutions across document automation, knowledge systems, and data platforms.
• Leverage AI, NLP, and automation to enhance legal service delivery.
• Write clean, secure code across front-end, back-end, and APIs.

Skills

Legal experience

Legal tech tools

AI/ML familiarity

Cloud platforms

Data privacy

Cross-domain bridging

Problem solving

Product mindset

Communication

Curiosity

Tools

iManage

NetDocuments

Litera

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

C#

Job description

Goodwin’s Global Operations Team seeks a Legal Engineer to design and build technology-enabled legal solutions at the intersection of law and software. You will collaborate with lawyers, knowledge management, and Digital & Technology teams to create tools that make legal workflows more efficient and scalable using automation and AI.

Ideal candidates combine software engineering with in-depth legal workflow understanding, and can translate complex processes into technical requirements while