Staff Software Engineer: AI for Scalable Legal Tech

SurePoint Technologies Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Accounts

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Life, Short-term and Long-term Disabl.

Job summary

SurePoint Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our next-generation product that accelerates law firm performance.

You will shape technical direction, raise engineering craft, and mentor peers while partnering with leadership and product to deliver on priorities. The role focuses on delivering scalable, reliable, and high-performance platforms, mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development and modern tooling

Qualifications

• Design and build high-quality, high-performance web apps and distributed systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture (SOA, event-driven).
• Experience with automated test strategies across the software lifecycle.
• Hands-on with AI tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to speed delivery.
• Security and CI/CD best practices; production deployments from code.
• Cloud deployment with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Datadog).
• Proven mentoring and elevating other engineers.
• Strong communication to influence decisions across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of cross-team technical initiatives with platform impact.
• Set technical direction and establish engineering standards across teams.
• Translate business goals into sound technical strategy with leadership input.
• Drive AI-assisted development practices with standards and guardrails.
• Evaluate new technologies to improve productivity and system quality.
• Write and review production-quality code and stay hands-on.
• Participate in incident response and implement durable remediation.
• Identify systemic risks and address scalability, performance, security.
• Mentor and elevate the technical capabilities of engineers.

Skills

Web applications at scale

Distributed systems design

Service-oriented architectures

Event-driven systems

Automated test strategies

AI tools & workflows

Security and CI/CD

Cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Heroku)

Observability tooling

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ember.js

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

OpenTelemetry

Honeycomb

Datadog

AWS

GCP

Heroku

Job description

SurePoint Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our next-generation product that accelerates law firm performance.

You will shape technical direction, raise engineering craft, and mentor peers while partnering with leadership and product to deliver on priorities. The role focuses on delivering scalable, reliable, and high-performance platforms, mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development and modern tooling