Senior Backend Engineer (Entities)

evenup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

401(k) plan for US employees

Home office stipend

Paid parental leave

Job summary

A fast-growing legal tech company in San Francisco is seeking engineers for a hybrid role focused on designing and enhancing scalable backend systems. You will collaborate with Data Scientists and Software Engineers to build AI-powered products. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in backend development, delivering production-ready code, and working in high-growth environments. This role offers competitive compensation, including equity opportunities and flexible benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in building frameworks and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in delivering production-ready code.
• Experience in managing infrastructure and RESTful API development.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems for LLM-driven products.
• Own infrastructure for reliable deployment and experimentation.
• Collaborate with teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Scalable system design

Collaboration

Python

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Postgres

Elasticsearch

Job description

Location

San Francisco (hybrid)

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• $114.8K – $317.2K • Offers Equity

The salary range provided reflects the compensation that EvenUp reasonably expects to offer for this role. The specific salary within this range will be determined based on various factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, education, skills, location, and alignment with the role's responsibilities.

EvenUp is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI. We empower personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve. Our products enable law firms to secure faster settlements, higher payouts, and better outcomes for victims injured through no fault of their own in vehicle collisions, accidents, natural disasters, and more.

We are one of the fastest-growing vertical SaaS companies in history, and we are just getting started. EvenUp is backed by top VCs, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, SignalFire, and Lightspeed. We are looking to expand our team with talented, driven, and collaborative individuals who seek to have a lasting impact. Learn more at www.evenuplaw.com.

🎥 Life as an Engineer at EvenUp

Location & Work Model

This is a hybrid role, 3x per week at our SF office three days per week.

About the Team

Join EvenUp’s AI Platform team, dedicated to making large language models (LLMs) more accessible, scalable, and impactful across the engineering organization. We build leading LLM-powered systems for the legal industry, transforming how complex legal documents are extracted, summarized, and structured for use by our clients every day.

This role operates at the intersection of backend engineering, LLM integration, and hands-on experimentation. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, Researchers, and Software Engineers to tackle challenging generative AI problems. Together, we maintain the foundational infrastructure enabling EvenUp’s product teams to leverage LLMs safely and efficiently at scale.

This is an excellent opportunity for engineers seeking deep technical ownership, backend system design, and work on innovative platforms that create impact across an entire company—while contributing to technology that advances fairness and accessibility within the legal system.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance scalable backend systems supporting LLM-driven products and internal platforms
• Own infrastructure and services for reliable deployment, experimentation, and iteration of AI-powered systems
• Collaborate with engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver reusable, scalable solutions
• Influence the technical direction and long-term architecture of EvenUp’s AI platform
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability
• Drive projects from early design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement

What You’ll Do

• Backend Systems & Infrastructure: Lead the design, development, and optimization of robust backend systems for deploying LLM-based algorithms and services
• End-to-End Ownership: Manage projects through their complete lifecycle—from architecture to deployment, monitoring, and improvement
• Cross-Team Enablement: Work with other engineering teams to understand use cases and deliver scalable platform solutions
• Engineering Excellence: Develop high-quality, maintainable code using a modern tech stack (Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch)
• Growth & Collaboration: Grow as an engineer working alongside world-class peers on impactful, cutting-edge generative AI projects

What We Look For

• Extensive experience building frameworks, libraries, and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance
• Proficiency delivering production-ready code, managing infrastructure, and building RESTful APIs to industry standards
• Experience owning and delivering complex technical projects
• Success in startup or high-growth environments valuing speed, collaboration, and ownership
• Proficiency in Python or other languages (Go, Java, C++)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proven cross-disciplinary collaboration

Bonus (Nice to Have)

• Background with AI systems, LLMs, or machine learning infrastructure
• Experience in legal tech or social impact–driven products
• Prior work supporting internal platforms or developer-facing tools

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Notice to Candidates:

EvenUp has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team – please know that we have no affiliation or connection to these situations. We only post open roles on our career page evenuplaw.com/careers or reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages, and all official EvenUp recruitment emails will come from the domains @evenuplaw.com, @evenup.ai, @ext-evenuplaw.com, [e-mail] or no‑[e-mail] email addresses.

To ensure fairness and proper consideration, we do not accept resumes or expressions of interest via email or social media messages. If you’re interested in a role, please submit your application directly through our careers page.

If you receive communication from someone you believe is impersonating EvenUp, please report it to us at [e-mail]. Examples of fraudulent domains include careers-evenuplaw.com and careers-evenuplaws.com.

Benefits & Perks:

As part of our total rewards package, we offer attractive benefits and perks to our employees, including:

• Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family
• Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness
• Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability
• 10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province
• A home office stipend
• 401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees
• Paid parental leave
• A local in-person meet-up program
• Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees

EvenUp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Compensation Range: $114.8K - $317.2K