Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Menlo Ventures; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

401(k) retirement plan

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid parental leave

17 paid vacation days plus federal holidays

Access to mental health program

Annual learning and development allocation

Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Team lunches and events

Job summary

Menlo Ventures in Oakland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and ship user-facing software in complex ecosystems. This role involves working with product leads and UX designers while maintaining high coding standards.

The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud-based software, a strong background in algorithms, and proficiency in multiple programming languages. The position offers a hybrid work schedule with significant autonomy.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years building cloud-based distributed systems.
• Experience leading or coordinating multi-developer efforts.
• Proficiency in programming languages like C, Java, Python.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing features for our product.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design new features.
• Provide mentorship and review code written by others.

Skills

Programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust)

Algorithms

Relational databases

API design

User interface development

Distributed systems

AI development tools

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent coursework

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Postgres

React

Job description

Overview

Everlaw is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience building and shipping user‑facing software in complex ecosystems. Transforming legal tech with software and AI is a full‑stack challenge that applies search, databases, data visualization, machine learning/AI, real‑time collaboration, and delightful front‑end user interfaces to the problem space.

As a senior engineer you will explore our entire system and work with significant autonomy across the stack, while collaborating with product leads and UX designers to ship features that matter. Your code must be clean, maintainable, and secure. Location: Full‑time, on‑site position in Oakland, California with an expected hybrid schedule of three days in the office and two days from home.

Responsibilities

• Build customer‑facing features that represent the core of our product, including document and image/multi‑modal processing, collaborative review tools, organization, translation tools, search, review, and more.
• Use AI technologies to find evidence rapidly such as document classification, predictive coding, transfer learning, and LLMs.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, and DevOps to design, implement, and launch new features in production.
• Help scale our system to larger datasets with hundreds of millions of documents.
• Provide technical mentorship to other engineers, becoming an expert in areas of our code base.
• Review code written by others, applying knowledge of programming languages, design patterns, and best practices.
• Triage product or system issues, debug, track, and resolve defects.
• Provide on‑call support for the product, answering customer questions, triaging defects, and carrying the pager.
• Contribute to internal and external documentation for engineering consumption and the Everlaw platform.
• Do technical interviews to help recruit engineers and grow the team.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent coursework.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, or Rust.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, relational databases, API design, and user interface development.
• At least 5 years building distributed systems in the cloud with service‑based architecture, testing, maintaining, and launching cloud‑based software.
• At least 1 year leading or coordinating multi‑developer efforts, including planning and technical breakdown.
• Experience with AI development tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

Pluses

• Familiarity with AWS platform.
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, or vector databases.
• Experience with React.
• Experience with applied AI usage.

Benefits

Expected salary range: $173,000 – $251,000 (final offer based on experience and skills). Benefits include:

• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Access to Modern Health mental‑health program
• Annual allocation for learning and development opportunities and professional membership dues
• Company‑sponsored life and disability insurance

Perks

• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and restaurants.
• Powerful Linux laptop with flexible desk setup.
• Team lunches, out‑of‑the‑box events, and volunteer opportunities.
• Industry recognition rankings.

About Everlaw

Everlaw helps law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in large lawsuits and investigations to find crucial information. We are a rapidly growing team of ten‑plus engineers building sophisticated technology with a small, talented crew.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and honor requests for pronouns. We comply with all applicable national, state, and local nondiscrimination and equal‑opportunity laws, including the California Equal Pay Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment as per the ordinance.