Remote Python Backend & Data Engineer - Legal Tech, ETL

Boosty Labs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Informal atmosphere

Lack of bureaucracy

20 days vacation

7 sick leaves

Job summary

Boosty Labs in the United States is looking for a Python backend engineer to design and scale data ingestion pipelines for a US-focused legal-tech platform.

You will build configurable source integrations, process documents through OCR, support search and data exploration, and help design a lightweight knowledge-graph layer with robust monitoring.

We offer remote work with flexible hours, an informal atmosphere, and generous time off (20 vacation days and 7 sick days).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Python development experience.
• Strong commercial experience with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks.
• Experience building ETL and data-ingestion pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
• Understanding of scalable data-processing architectures.
• Experience integrating external APIs, feeds, scraping, or other data sources.
• Experience with document processing, OCR, search systems, or knowledge graphs is a strong advantage.
• Strong software architecture and OOP skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data-ingestion pipelines from multiple external sources.
• Build configurable source integrations that can be managed through an operations panel.
• Process documents through OCR, structured extraction, and data transformation pipelines.
• Categorize and classify large volumes of legal data.
• Build backend capabilities supporting search and data exploration.
• Help design a lightweight knowledge-graph layer for tracking relationships and changes in legal data.
• Implement monitoring and fallback mechanisms for unavailable or changed data sources.
• Maintain modular backend services with clear interfaces/contracts.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

ETL

Airflow

Data architecture

External APIs

OCR/Info retrieval

OOP/Software architecture

Job description

Boosty Labs in the United States is looking for a Python backend engineer to design and scale data ingestion pipelines for a US-focused legal-tech platform.

You will build configurable source integrations, process documents through OCR, support search and data exploration, and help design a lightweight knowledge-graph layer with robust monitoring.

We offer remote work with flexible hours, an informal atmosphere, and generous time off (20 vacation days and 7 sick days).