Founding Product Engineer
- San Francisco, CA, United States
$140,000 to $180,000 USD / year
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Job details
- Pay
- $140,000 to $180,000 USD / year
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage legal technology team building AI-powered software for contract workflows. As a founding product engineer, you will work closely with attorneys and AI engineers to turn practical legal expertise into reliable software that customers use every day, while helping shape the engineering culture as the team grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and own full-stack product features, from data models and backend systems to user-facing interfaces.
- Work with attorneys and AI engineers to translate legal workflows and review practices into production-ready software.
- Make pragmatic architecture and tooling decisions that support fast delivery and long-term reliability.
- Write maintainable code, monitor production quality, and take features through deployment and ongoing ownership.
- Help establish engineering standards and contribute to hiring as the team expands.
- Work closely with teammates in person to deliver customer-focused product improvements.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- One to three years of experience building and shipping production software, ideally at an early-stage company or as a founder.
- Full-stack development skills, including TypeScript and React, a modern backend stack, and relational databases.
- Hands-on experience building with AI or large language models, professionally or through personal projects.
- Experience owning features end to end, building data models and user-facing interfaces, and making sound engineering trade-offs under time constraints.
- Strong product judgment, communication, and a record of delivering maintainable, reliable software in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Legal technology, contract management, document processing, or experience working directly with domain experts is helpful.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $140,000 to $180,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, six days per week. Relocation to San Francisco is at the candidate's own expense.