Associate Software Engineer (Law Firm)

An unnamed plaintiff litigation firm in Stamford, Connecticut is hiring its first dedicated software engineer to bring its legal-tech app and backend in-house and build new applications. The role includes developing AI-powered tools, integrating firm systems and legal data, and owning deployment, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the existing app and backend from the vendor. Maintain it, secure it, scale it, and manage App Store releases. There is a real opportunity to launch an Android version
• Work directly with a partner who drives the firm's technology ideas to design and build new applications, some for internal use and some for the wider legal community, with potential to become commercial products
• Build AI-powered features using large language models: retrieval over case files, document classification and extraction, drafting assistance, and citation checking
• Turn messy legal data (scanned PDFs, medical records, deposition transcripts, court dockets, email) into clean, searchable, structured information
• Integrate with the firm's existing systems, including Microsoft 365 and public court data sources
• Sit with attorneys and staff, learn how they work, and turn what you see into prototypes and shipped software
• Own deployment, monitoring, reliability, and security for everything you build, with sound handling of privileged and confidential client information

Requirements:

• 3+ years building and shipping production software, ideally full-stack web and/or mobile applications
• Strong generalist programmer, comfortable picking up whatever the problem needs
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript, with experience in a modern framework such as FastAPI, Django, Next.js, or React
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), APIs, and cloud deployment (Azure, AWS, or similar)
• Comfortable with AI-assisted coding and hands-on experience building with LLMs (prompt design, RAG, embeddings and vector search, evaluating model output)
• A product mindset: you care whether people actually use what you build
• Clear communicator who can explain a technical tradeoff to a trial lawyer in plain English
• Comfortable working independently as the primary technical owner, without a large engineering team around you
• Judgment and discretion handling sensitive, confidential information
• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• iOS development experience, especially navigating the Apple App Store review and release process
• Android development experience
• Document processing experience (OCR, PDF manipulation, text extraction from scanned records)
• Legal tech, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience
• Microsoft Graph / Microsoft 365 integration experience
• Early-stage startup experience, or having taken a side project or internal tool to real users
• Familiarity with security and compliance practices (SOC 2, HIPAA, encryption, access logging)
• Candidates in the New York tri-state area are preferred so they can come into the office as needed. Remote candidates with the right skills and personality will be considered