Senior Backend Engineer
At August, we’re building AI designed for one thing: helping law firms practice better. Unlike tools built for the AmLaw 100, our focus is on midsized firms — where efficiency, client service, and competitive advantage matter most.
Our platform helps lawyers draft, review, and analyze documents at scale, turning what used to take hours into minutes. We’re trusted by forward-thinking firms across the U.S., Australia, and Asia, and backed by leading investors (NEA, Pear VC, Stanford Law) to grow globally.
We move quickly, learn directly from clients, and believe that AI is transforming the practice of law.
The Opportunity
August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We’re targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at August, you will design and scale production-grade agents that perform legal tasks with expert-level reasoning. You’ll work closely with the founders, legal experts, and product team to deploy AI systems in high-stakes workflows used by real lawyers across the globe.
What You'll Do
Build and deploy agentic systems using Python to automate, evaluate, and scale end-to-end legal workflows
Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our customers and legal team.
Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism.
About You
5+ years of experience building products, either in grad school or in production environments; strong Python skills
Demonstrated ability to ship quickly especially in early-stage environments while building scalable enterprise software
Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus.
Why Join August
Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.
Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.
Exceptional Early Traction: >4x revenue growth in the past four months.
Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions
Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.
Strategic investors: Backed by NEA and exceptional seed investors Pear VC and Afore Capital, August has the capital to execute