Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer – Legal Tech

Sweet James, LLP; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

FSA or HSA option

401(k) with 2% match

PTO and paid holidays

Mentorship and career growth

Job summary

Sweet James Accident Attorneys is seeking a senior full-stack engineer who designs and ships internal apps used by staff, infusing AI to save time and improve outcomes. You will own features from UI to services and data, review peers, and maintain production systems.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with legal tech teams, and deploy on Azure with a focus on security and data privacy. This is an on-site role in Orange County.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production software, full-stack: React or Next.js on the front end, Node/TypeScript or Python on the back end.
• Production SQL and data modeling in Postgres.
• LLM-powered features shipped to real users: prompt and tool design, structured outputs, retrieval (RAG) and evaluation.
• Cloud deployment and operations: Docker, Azure or AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, and owning uptime.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Clear writing: design docs, runbooks, and plain-language explanations for people who are not engineers.
• Sound judgment with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack apps staff use all day with modern front ends and APIs.
• Put AI to work inside them to extract facts and automate workflows.
• Connect Salesforce/Litify, Outlook, SharePoint, Zoom, Twilio, DocuSign.
• Lead projects end to end from design to deployment and measure adoption.
• Raise quality with tests, reviews, and evaluation sets for AI features.
• Run deployed containerized services on Azure and monitor uptime.
• Grow the team by mentoring engineers and helping hiring.
• Protect client data with least-privilege access and audit trails.

Skills

React

Next.js

Node/TypeScript

Python

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

GitHub

Supabase

pgvector

Anthropic Claude

OpenAI API

n8n

Job description

Sweet James Accident Attorneys is seeking a senior full-stack engineer who designs and ships internal apps used by staff, infusing AI to save time and improve outcomes. You will own features from UI to services and data, review peers, and maintain production systems.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with legal tech teams, and deploy on Azure with a focus on security and data privacy. This is an on-site role in Orange County.