Software Engineer – AI-Driven Legal Tech at Scale

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a software engineer to join Amazon Legal Technologies, building AI-enabled legal tools and secure platforms at global scale. You will own features end-to-end, partnering with legal and product teams to translate workflows into robust software and scalable services using AWS and AI frameworks.

The role emphasizes an AI-first approach, on-call responsibility, and mentorship to raise engineering standards across a diverse product portfolio.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Build features across our product portfolio, including case management system, external user-facing systems, and compliance systems.
• Own feature delivery across the full lifecycle, working backwards from customers through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations, and partnering with engineers, product and legal teams to shape requirements.
• Design and build generative AI capabilities, MCP tooling, and agentic automation that power legal workflows and enable legal customers to build their own automations.
• Develop AI-driven service integrations and automation across strategic initiatives, delivering the backend and agentic engineering behind our Legal Tech AI roadmap.
• Contribute to modernizing existing architecture by implementing scalable services using AWS technologies.
• Create integrations between legal tools, document management systems, and internal platforms to automate workflows and reduce manual work.
• Write secure, maintainable, well-tested code with clear documentation and design choices others can extend, handling critical legal data under strict security and compliance requirements.
• Embrace an AI-first approach to daily engineering: use AI-powered development tools by default to accelerate delivery, raise code quality, and automate routine work.
• Drive operational excellence: own on-call support and ensure the root cause of issues is permanently fixed, not worked around.
• Drive technical discussions and code reviews, mentor junior engineers across the team, and raise the team's engineering bar.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

OO Design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS

MCP tooling

Generative AI frameworks

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a software engineer to join Amazon Legal Technologies, building AI-enabled legal tools and secure platforms at global scale. You will own features end-to-end, partnering with legal and product teams to translate workflows into robust software and scalable services using AWS and AI frameworks.

The role emphasizes an AI-first approach, on-call responsibility, and mentorship to raise engineering standards across a diverse product portfolio.