Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Build Scalable AI-Driven Legal Workflows

Lighthouse; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k match

Equipment stipend

Annual team off-site

In-person in SF or NY

Job summary

Lighthouse is seeking a senior or staff-level full stack engineer to build the systems and interfaces that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S.

Our stack is React, TypeScript, and Tailwind on the frontend; Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL on the backend. You’ll work across the entire system, from internal case management tools and applicant-facing portal to backend APIs, event pipelines, and AI agents that power them.

Qualifications

• 6+ years shipping product across frontend and backend.
• Proficient with TypeScript, Python, and React.
• Led projects end to end across the whole stack and shipped to a large customer base.
• Able to take a hard problem in a complex, unfamiliar system and drive it to a working solution.
• High agency, especially for independent research and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step legal workflows end-to-end: drafting, reviewing, filing.
• Redesign task and workflow orchestration to be more robust and scalable.
• Improve the architecture of backend services, event system, and scheduled job infrastructure.
• Ship polished, fast interfaces for internal legal-ops teams and customers.

Skills

Frontend & backend

TypeScript

Python

React

End-to-end ownership

Independent research

Data modeling

Job description

Lighthouse is seeking a senior or staff-level full stack engineer to build the systems and interfaces that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S.

Our stack is React, TypeScript, and Tailwind on the frontend; Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL on the backend. You’ll work across the entire system, from internal case management tools and applicant-facing portal to backend APIs, event pipelines, and AI agents that power them.