Senior Software Engineer

Ivo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Ivo is seeking talented Backend Engineers in San Francisco to develop software that automates legal processes, helping overworked in-house legal teams. In this role, you will build systems for analyzing contracts, design innovative pipelines, and work with legal professionals to adapt to changing technologies. With a competitive salary range of $225K-$405K, Ivo is committed to making a significant impact on people’s lives through their AI-native platform.

Qualifications

• Team player focused on product impact over individual tasks.
• Preferred experience in startup environments.
• Excitement about building a company.

Responsibilities

• Build systems to process and analyze millions of contracts.
• Design pipelines for LLMs, data extraction, and clustering.
• Create accurate search and retrieval systems.
• Collaborate with lawyers to adapt to LLM changes.

Skills

Coding

Resourcefulness

Sense of urgency

Job description

Engineering at Ivo

• An AI agent that lives in MS Word and edits the document for you [2023]
• Ditching imprecise embeddings models in favor of agentic RAG [2023]
• Large-scale LLM-based legal fact extraction [2024]
• A legal assistant that can search large contract databases, without sacrificing accuracy [2024]
• Clustering legal documents descended from the same family [2025]
• Automatic deviation analysis to locate buried risk in huge contract databases [2025]
• Merging contracts with their amendments to make a time series of "composite" contracts (a customer actually cried when we showed her this) [2025]

Role

Our Software Solves All These Problems (and More) At Scale, And Our Backend Engineers Make It Possible. You’ll Work On

• Building systems that process and analyze millions of contracts reliably
• Designing pipelines that orchestrate LLMs, data extraction, and clustering algorithms at scale
• Creating the most accurate search and retrieval systems on the market
• Collaborating with lawyers and product to build the newly possible when LLMs change every few months

Mission

Every major business has an in-house legal team, and all of those lawyers are overworked. 80-hour weeks, tight deadlines and contract-reading death marches are the industry norm. Up until recently, there wasn’t anything technology could do to help this situation. LLMs have given us the ability to give these lawyers their lives back, and at Ivo, that’s our mission. We’re building an AI-native platform to automate legal drudgery. People love our software – despite high competition, we have the highest trial win rate on the market (85%). We’re genuinely improving people’s lives, and we’re only just getting started.

Qualifications

• You love writing code, but you love having impact more: We’re a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product. That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions.
• You would describe yourself as being relentlessly resourceful.
• You have a strong internal sense of urgency. You have a bias toward doing things today, rather than tomorrow.
• Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required.
• You are excited about the adventure of building a company!

Compensation

The USD salary range for this role is $225K-$405K. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.