Staff Software Engineer

Ivo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 325,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Ivo, based in San Francisco, is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to develop generative AI functionalities aimed at improving legal workflows. In this role, you will create high-performance code for UI and backend systems that analyze contracts. Collaboration with lawyers, designers, and engineers will be key to innovating how legal teams operate. The position offers a competitive salary range of $325K-$485K, dependent on qualifications and experience, as part of a mission to alleviate the burden on lawyers by leveraging AI.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills with a focus on impactful product development.
• Relentless resourcefulness and a sense of urgency.
• Startup experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop full stack generative AI functionality.
• Ship high performance UI code and backend systems.
• Design pipelines for orchestrating LLMs and data extraction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate legal work.

Skills

Full stack generative AI development

High performance UI coding

Backend systems for contract processing

Collaboration with designers and lawyers

Data extraction and clustering

Job description

Engineering at Ivo

• An AI agent that lives in MS word and edits the document for you [2023]
• Ditching imprecise embeddings models in favor of agentic RAG [2023]
• Large-scale LLM-based legal fact extraction [2024]
• A legal assistant that can search large contract databases, without sacrificing accuracy [2024]
• Clustering legal documents descended from the same family [2025]
• Automatic deviation analysis to locate buried risk in huge contract databases [2025]
• Merging contracts with their amendments to make a time series of “composite” contracts (a customer actually cried when we showed her this) [2025]

Role

• Developing full stack generative AI functionality
• Shipping high performance UI code and backend systems that process and analyze millions of contracts reliably
• Designing pipelines that orchestrate LLMs, data extraction, and clustering algorithms at scale
• Collaborating with designers, lawyers and other engineers to re‑imagine how lawyers work in the AI age

Mission

Every major business has an in‑house legal team, and all of those lawyers are overworked. 80 hour weeks, tight deadlines and contract‑reading death marches are the industry norm. Up until recently, there wasn’t anything technology could do to help this situation.

LLMs have given us the ability to give these lawyers their lives back, and at Ivo, that’s our mission. We’re building an AI‑native platform to automate legal drudgery. People love our software – despite high competition, we have the highest trial win rate on the market (85%). We’re genuinely improving people’s lives, and we’re only just getting started.

About You

• You love writing code, but you love having impact more: We’re a team of engineers at heart, but our #1 goal is building the best possible product. That means making pragmatic choices and looking for 80/20 solutions.
• You would describe yourself as being relentlessly resourceful.
• You have a strong internal sense of urgency. You have a bias towards doing things today, rather than tomorrow.
• Experience working in a startup environment is preferred but not required.
• You are excited about the adventure of building a company!

Benefits

• The USD salary range for this role is $325K-$485K. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.