Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Filevine; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Competitive & Fair Pay

Maternity & paternity leave

Short & long-term disability

Opportunity to learn from a leadership team

Job summary

A leading cloud technology firm in San Francisco is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own major parts of their AI stack. This role involves prototyping new workflows and designing multi-step pipelines. Candidates should have over 7 years of engineering experience, particularly with ML products, and strong backend engineering skills. The position also offers a competitive salary range of $160,000 to $180,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience shipping ML or LLM-powered products at scale.
• Strong instincts around latency, reliability, and fallback strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own major product surfaces relying on retrieval, structured reasoning, and multi-step AI pipelines.
• Prototype, evaluate, and productionize new AI workflows for contract review.
• Improve internal LLM orchestration layer and evaluation tooling.

Skills

Backend engineering skills

Systems design

Prototyping

Machine Learning (ML)

Multi-step pipelines

Tools

Go

Next.js/React

Postgres/pgvector

Cloud Run

Job description

Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.

Our Mission

Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world-class platform to help professionals scale.

Role Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll own major parts of our AI stack. You’ll prototype zero-to-one workflows, design multi-step and RAG-based pipelines, and push features into production that real attorneys use within days, not quarters. You’ll work across backend, orchestration, retrieval, and product-integrated AI systems.

Everything you ship will directly shape how legal teams review, revise, and negotiate contracts inside Word and the browser.

Responsibilities

• Own major product surfaces that rely on retrieval, structured reasoning, and multi-step AI pipelines
• Prototype, evaluate, and productionize new AI workflows for contract review, clause-level analysis, playbook enforcement, and multi-document tasks
• Improve our internal LLM orchestration layer, prompt-library, evaluation tooling, and RAG strategies
• Partner with founders and our in-house legal team to design and validate new features
• Build backend services that support multi-tenant enterprise customers and high-volume workloads
• Ship quickly: small PRs, fast iteration cycles, functional releases every week

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• Strong backend engineering skills and ability to build production systems end to end
• Experience shipping ML or LLM-powered products at scale
• Experience with retrieval, embeddings, experimentation, and evals
• Ability to design multi-step pipelines and agentic workflows
• Strong instincts around latency, reliability, and fallback strategies
• Ability to prototype in days and productionize in weeks
• High standards for correctness, reliability, and UX quality
• Bonus: Go, Next.js/React, Postgres/pgvector, Cloud Run, multi-provider LLM orchestration

What You’ll Work On

• Designing a multi-step agent that analyzes an entire contract, applies playbooks, generates redlines, and formats them into Word-ready output
• Improving a retrieval layer that handles 300+ page agreements or mixed corpuses of PDFs, templates, and prior negotiations
• Building a system that scores clause-level correctness using structured evaluation datasets
• Creating a streaming, long-running workflow for contract review with checkpoints, retries, and deterministic outputs
• Designing a prompt-library and golden-file test suite that guarantees consistent outputs across multiple LLM providers

Compensation Information: $160,000 - $180,000 base

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Cool Company Benefits

• A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
• Short & long-term disability
• Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
• Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
• Top-of-the-line company swag

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