Senior Software Engineer - Real-Law Retrieval (Remote)

DocketX; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct work on core products

Open corpus on Hugging Face

Remote work on US hours

Job summary

DocketX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain the systems behind our legal research products, including DocketRouter and DocketBuster. You will work on retrieval over real law, citation verification, and the data pipelines that keep our corpus consistent.

You will contribute to a small, fully remote team operating during US hours, focusing on correctness and reliable data processing. You will write code, review changes, and explain why a result is right, collaborating with

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of a production system.
• Experience building or operating APIs used by external developers.
• Practical experience with search or retrieval over large document collections.
• Comfort working with large, messy datasets and writing pipelines that produce consistent output.
• Clear written communication and the ability to work independently on a small team, remote during US hours.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the retrieval systems that serve real law through the DocketRouter API.
• Extend the citation verification pipeline that checks output against our corpus of real citations and blocks anything unverifiable.
• Develop the ingestion and normalization pipelines that keep thousands of court opinions in one uniform format.
• Add new state law bundles that combine opinions, statutes, and court rules, including ongoing Wisconsin work.
• Support the audit trail and published API documentation that law firms rely on when they build on DocketRouter.
• Contribute to DocketBuster, including the logic that pairs each step of a hearing with the rule behind it.

Skills

Production systems ownership

APIs for external developers

Search/retrieval over large documents

Data pipelines

Clear written communication

Tools

DocketRouter API

Citation verification pipeline

Data normalization pipelines

Job description

DocketX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain the systems behind our legal research products, including DocketRouter and DocketBuster. You will work on retrieval over real law, citation verification, and the data pipelines that keep our corpus consistent.

You will contribute to a small, fully remote team operating during US hours, focusing on correctness and reliable data processing. You will write code, review changes, and explain why a result is right, collaborating with