Staff Software Engineer: AI-powered Legal Tech

Finchlegal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Finch in New York City is seeking engineers to help modernize legal work via AI-powered software. You will own features end-to-end, partner with strategy, product and legal teams, and build reliable systems using Python/Django, React, and AWS.

You will join a high-ownership, collaborative engineering culture focused on meaningful impact for consumers of legal services, with room to experiment and scale as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building reliable, secure software in production.
• Strong product sense: you can lead discovery and prioritize what to build and why.
• A track record of writing clean, testable, maintainable code, with attention to observability and performance.
• The judgment to turn an ambiguous problem into useful software and take responsibility for the outcome.
• A working style grounded in urgency, ownership, and care for the people using what you build.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production release.
• Scale the foundational software for our legal team, build attorney-facing surfaces, and explore new products and services.
• Build reliable, performant systems across core workflows using Python/Django, React, and AWS.
• Ship AI-powered functionality that turns legal complexity into usable software for legal professionals and firms.
• Collaborate with strategy, product, growth, and legal teams to define what gets built and why.
• Shape engineering culture, standards, and practices for a growing team.

Skills

Python

React

Ownership

Observability

Performance

Tools

Django

AWS

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Finch in New York City is seeking engineers to help modernize legal work via AI-powered software. You will own features end-to-end, partner with strategy, product and legal teams, and build reliable systems using Python/Django, React, and AWS.

You will join a high-ownership, collaborative engineering culture focused on meaningful impact for consumers of legal services, with room to experiment and scale as the company grows.