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 Senior Software Engineer, you’ll own major parts of our AI stack. You’ll prototype zero-to-one workflows, design multi-step and RAG-based pipelines, and push features into production that real attorneys use within days, not quarters. You’ll work across backend, orchestration, retrieval, and product-integrated AI systems.
Everything you ship will directly shape how legal teams review, revise, and negotiate contracts inside Word and the browser.
Responsibilities
Own major product surfaces that rely on retrieval, structured reasoning, and multi-step AI pipelinesPrototype, evaluate, and productionize new AI workflows for contract review, clause-level analysis, playbook enforcement, and multi-document tasksImprove our internal LLM orchestration layer, prompt-library, evaluation tooling, and RAG strategiesPartner with founders and our in-house legal team to design and validate new featuresBuild backend services that support multi-tenant enterprise customers and high-volume workloadsShip quickly: small PRs, fast iteration cycles, functional releases every week
Qualifications
7+ years of engineering experience Strong backend engineering skills and ability to build production systems end to end Experience shipping ML or LLM-powered products at scale Experience with retrieval, embeddings, experimentation, and evals Ability to design multi-step pipelines and agentic workflows Strong instincts around latency, reliability, and fallback strategies Ability to prototype in days and productionize in weeks High standards for correctness, reliability, and UX quality Bonus: Go, Next.js/React, Postgres/pgvector, Cloud Run, multi-provider LLM orchestration
What You'll Work On:
Designing a multi-step agent that analyzes an entire contract, applies playbooks, generates redlines, and formats them into Word-ready outputImproving a retrieval layer that handles 300+ page agreements or mixed corpuses of PDFs, templates, and prior negotiationsBuilding a system that scores clause-level correctness using structured evaluation datasetsCreating a streaming, long-running workflow for contract review with checkpoints, retries, and deterministic outputsDesigning a prompt-library and golden-file test suite that guarantees consistent outputs across multiple LLM providers
