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Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Filevine is a cloud-based legal technology company providing case management, document management, and automation tools for law firms and legal departments. [1, 4, 30] It aims to simplify and elevate complex legal work. [5, 19]

Filevine

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 160k-180k USD

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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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Communication about this opportunity, or any open role at Filevine, will only come from representatives with email addresses using "filevine.com". Other addresses reaching out are not affiliated with Filevine and should not be responded to.

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About Filevine

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Filevine's journey began from the real-world frustrations of practicing attorneys Ryan Anderson and Nate Morris. As lawyers managing a growing firm, they found existing software solutions inadequate for the pace and complexity of their work. This firsthand experience of the legal profession's daily grind – the mountains of paperwork, the critical deadlines, and the constant need for seamless client communication – fueled a desire for something better. They envisioned a system that could truly support the demanding nature of legal practice, a stark contrast to the clunky, outdated tools they were forced to use. This wasn't just about incremental improvement; it was about fundamentally rethinking how legal work could be managed with modern technology.

The turning point came when Anderson and Morris connected with Jim Blake, described as a 'one-of-a-kind, truly brilliant engineer'. [1, 12] This meeting of legal insight and engineering prowess was the catalyst for Filevine's creation. [1, 12] Together, they embarked on a mission to build a platform designed by lawyers, for lawyers. Starting with a focus on personal injury firms, Filevine was initially conceived as a task management software. However, the ambition was always larger. The team recognized that legal professionals across all practice areas were underserved by existing technology and were hungry for tools that could genuinely make their lives easier and their work more effective. This understanding, coupled with a commitment to listening to customer needs, drove Filevine's evolution. The company expanded its offerings to cover the entire legal matter lifecycle, acquiring companies like Lead Docket and Outlaw to enhance its capabilities in lead intake and document management. [1, 2] From its early days, operating on a shoestring budget, Filevine has grown into a comprehensive legal operating system, now valued at over a billion dollars and serving thousands of law firms and legal departments. [1, 2, 19] The platform now incorporates advanced AI features, demonstrating a continued commitment to innovation and to transforming the way legal work gets done. [1, 19]

Employee benefits

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Life Insurance

Offers life insurance.

Performance Bonus

Offers performance-based bonuses.

Health Insurance

Provides health insurance coverage.

401(K)

Offers a 401(K) plan for retirement savings.

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