Filevine

Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

$160k - $180k
Filevine San Francisco Today
engineering
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.

Our Mission
Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.

Role Summary:

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the contract review and drafting team, you’ll design and build core systems that power our AI-native workflow engine. You’ll work across the stack: Word add-in surfaces, Next.js web app, Go services, LLM orchestration, document processing, and agentic systems. You’ll collaborate directly with product, design, and customers to ship features that materially improve how in-house legal teams review and negotiate contracts.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own full-stack features across the Word add-in and the web application
  • Architect and scale backend services (Go, Postgres, Cloud Run) that support multi-tenant AI workflows
  • Work closely with AI engineers to productionize agentic systems, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, prompt libraries, and evals
  • Collaborate directly with customers to understand workflows, gather requirements, and shape product direction
  • Ship high-quality, reliable software quickly in a small, senior team
  • Improve performance, latency, and reliability across our LLM orchestration layer
  • Drive system design for new product lines built on top of the same backend platform
  • Mentor engineers and help define engineering standards and best practices
  • Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems  
  • Strong experience with Go or a similar typed backend language  
  • Experience designing scalable systems (HTTP APIs, Postgres, Redis, Cloud Run or similar)  
  • Ability to architect multi-tenant, enterprise-grade systems  
  • Strong product instincts and experience shipping user-facing features end to end  
  • Experience integrating external APIs or LLM provider services  
  • Ability to work directly with customers to distill ambiguous workflows into clear requirements  
  • High bar for code quality, architecture, and correctness  
  • Comfort operating in a fast, iterative environment with high ownership  
  • Bonus: experience with Office add-ins, agentic workflows, or legal-tech systems
  • Compensation Information: $160,000 - $180,000 base

    The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

    Cool Company Benefits:
    - A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive 
    - Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
    - Competitive & Fair Pay
    - Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
    - Short & long-term disability
    - Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
    - Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
    - Top-of-the-line company swag

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