Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Everlaw is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience building and shipping user-facing software in complex ecosystems. Transforming legal tech with software and AI is a full-stack challenge that applies search, databases, data visualization, machine learning/AI, real-time collaboration, and delightful front end user interfaces to the problem space. We will encourage you to explore our entire system and work with significant autonomy across the stack.

However, if you have specialized skills you would like to leverage, we welcome that as well. Most of all, we care about finding self-driven engineers who love their craft, write clean software, use the right tools for the job, and avoid dogma. As a result, we’ve been able to build quite a bit of sophisticated technology with a small, talented team.

Though our team has grown, we have maintained a culture where you’ll own serious features, write great code, learn a huge amount, and have a lot of fun. You’ll work directly with product leads and UX designers as needed to ship features that matter. We build with a high sense of urgency, with respect for the profound opportunity ahead of us, but don’t rely on sprints or made-up deadlines to motivate results; code quality and maintainability are paramount.

At our core, we enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, works well, scales well, and is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems, and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback. At Everlaw, our mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth .

Our company culture is open and vibrant, and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend, regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals, and mentoring from an amazing crew of staff and principal engineers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to apply your experience while also continuing to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply?

We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team. This is a full-time, on-site position located in Oakland, California with an expected hybrid schedule of 3 days/week in the office and 2 days/week at home. Getting started We want you to feel like part of the team early on!

Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll... Build customer-facing features that represent the core of our product, including document and image/multi-modal processing, collaborative review tools, organization, translation tools, search, review, and more. Use AI technologies to find the evidence rapidly such as document classification, predictive coding, transfer learning and LLMs.

Collaborate with one or more of the Product, Design, Engineering Operations, Security Engineering, and DevOps teams to build out and implement new features that are used in our production environments. Help with scaling our system to larger datasets with hundreds of millions of documents . Provide Technical Mentorship to other engineers by both sharing your technical knowledge and becoming an expert in an area of our code base.

Be a Code Reviewer by reviewing code developed by others using your knowledge of programming languages, design patterns, and best practices.