Technical Staff, Full-Stack Engineer — NYC Hybrid

Finchlegal; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity / Stock options

Daily team lunches

Flexible PTO

In-office snacks & drinks

Job summary

Finch Legal is seeking a Member of the Technical Staff in NYC to own critical features end-to-end, working with product, ops, and design in a codebase where your decisions matter from day one.

You will build and ship AI-powered, scalable software using Python/Django, React, and AWS, shaping workflows for intake, records, and demands for personal injury firms nationwide. This is a fast-moving, ownership-driven role in a growing company.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building reliable, secure software in production.
• Full-stack experience across 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.
• Nice-to-haves: Django, AWS, or OpenAI APIs.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup where you helped set engineering standards.
• Familiarity with legal tech, document processing, or data-heavy workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Full-stack development

Python

React

Secure software

Production-grade software

Tools

Django

AWS

OpenAI APIs

Job description

Finch Legal is seeking a Member of the Technical Staff in NYC to own critical features end-to-end, working with product, ops, and design in a codebase where your decisions matter from day one.

You will build and ship AI-powered, scalable software using Python/Django, React, and AWS, shaping workflows for intake, records, and demands for personal injury firms nationwide. This is a fast-moving, ownership-driven role in a growing company.