Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI – Legal Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

In-office snacks and team meals

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Finch Legal in New York City is hiring a Member of the Technical Staff to own critical features end-to-end, ship fast, and work with product, ops, and design in a fast-evolving codebase.

You'll build full-stack systems with Python/Django, React, and AWS, ship AI-powered functionality for legal workflows, and collaborate to define what gets built and why. This role offers on-site four days a week in NYC with competitive base salary and equity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building reliable, secure software in production.
• Full-stack experience – comfortable across the frontend and backend.
• Proficiency in Python and React, or demonstrably fast at picking up new stacks.
• A track record of writing clean, testable, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Own major features end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production release.
• Build reliable, performant systems across our core workflows using Python/Django, React, and AWS.
• Ship AI-powered functionality that turns legal complexity into clear, usable software for law firms.
• Collaborate directly with product, ops, and design to define what gets built and why.
• Shape our culture of our technical team, standards, and practices while we're still small enough for it to matter.

Skills

Full-stack experience

Python

React

Tools

Django

AWS

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Finch Legal in New York City is hiring a Member of the Technical Staff to own critical features end-to-end, ship fast, and work with product, ops, and design in a fast-evolving codebase.

You'll build full-stack systems with Python/Django, React, and AWS, ship AI-powered functionality for legal workflows, and collaborate to define what gets built and why. This role offers on-site four days a week in NYC with competitive base salary and equity.