Senior Back End Software Engineer

1 Month ago • All levels • Backend Development • $140,000 PA - $190,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

DraftWise is seeking a Senior Back End Software Engineer to join their team. This role involves ownership and impact on technology, product, and culture, working with a skilled engineering team to implement new features, scale the platform, and improve performance. Responsibilities include tackling challenges across the stack, from web technology to optimizing database queries and fine-tuning LLMs. The engineer will be responsible for feature ownership, writing performant code, and making architectural decisions. The company offers a remote-first environment, competitive salary, equity, and opportunities for leadership.
Must have:
  • Strong Java experience
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Focus on user impact and high-quality products
  • Aligns with company values
Good to have:
  • Java 21, jOOQ, Dropwizard, Dagger
  • Postgres, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras
  • AWS, Docker
  • Experience with deployment infrastructure
  • Experience building data-intensive applications (NLP, search, LLMs)
  • Involvement in engineering design decisions
  • Interest in data products for enterprise users
Perks:
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Competitive salary
  • Equity-based compensation
  • Private medical care
  • New laptop and work-from-home stipend
  • Generous PTO / sick leave

Job Details

Senior Back End Software Engineer (Canada) at DraftWise (S20)
$140K - $190K CAD  •  
Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers
New York, NY, US / Remote (CA)
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
6+ years
About DraftWise

DraftWise is at the forefront of AI in the legal industry, building a secure knowledge platform that helps lawyers at elite law firms draft, negotiate and review contracts faster, and with an edge over their competitors. Our core product unlocks for the first time the years of historic legal contracts that firms have negotiated for their clients. We use the latest in data management, machine learning and language analytics to help lawyers and legal professionals write better, safer contracts. Some reasons to join DraftWise:

  • Our core offering has achieved product market fit proven by our partnerships with the industries leading Vault 10, Magic Circle and AMLAW 100 firms.
  • Our founding team is composed of former Palantir and Google engineers along with an experienced lawyer from a top global law firm.
  • We are backed by Y-Combinator and recently raised our $20M in our Series A backed by Index Ventures
  • We are a fully remote company, though offer the option to co-work in our major cities in the US and Europe.
  • We are working with the latest generative AI technology and developing practical applications of it for the legal industry
  • We are solving problems that matter to lawyers, and our users love us for it!
About the role
Skills: Java, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced back end software engineer to join our team. As an experienced team member, you will have a broad ownership and impact on the technology, product, and our culture. You will work alongside a first-rate engineering team to implement exciting new features, scale the platform, and to make the platform more performant.

We have challenges at all levels of the stack, from building beautiful web technology to fine tuning LLMs to optimizing Postgres and Elasticsearch queries to deal with an ever-growing scale.

We’d love for you to take ownership of features, write performant, elegant code, and make meaningful architectural decisions.

What We Value

  • Strong communication skills in a transparent environment.
  • Creating an environment of trust through well-intentioned feedback.
  • Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
  • Interest in working in a lively environment with dynamic objectives.
  • Individual autonomy and ownership to build quality products.

What We Offer

  • Remote-first work environment. (Engineering teams typically span UTC+3 to UTC-5.)
    • This role is best suited for someone who can work on East Coast time.
  • Competitive salary.
  • Equity-based compensation.
  • Private medical care.
  • New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories.
  • Generous PTO / sick leave.
  • Opportunities to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world.

About You

We're looking for engineers who have:

  • Strong overlap with DraftWise’s company values.
  • A focus on user impact and passion for shipping high-quality products that delights users.
  • Extensive and recent experience in Java.
  • 5+ years as a professional software engineer.

It's also great if you have:

  • Worked with elements in our tech stack:
    • Development: Java 21, jOOQ, Dropwizard, Dagger
    • Data: Postgres, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras
    • DevOps: AWS, Docker
  • Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining deployment infrastructure.
  • Experience building data-intensive applications such as NLP, search and indexing, and data processing, LLMs.
  • Interest in being involved in engineering design decisions.
  • Interest in the data products space, and a love of building tools that helps enterprise users to do more.
Technology

We have plenty of challenges at all levels of the stack, from the nuts and bolts of designing a processing back-end engine, VM infrastructure and NLP all the way up to building beautiful web technology.

If you have the appetite for it, you’ll be able to drive the product direction.

Product: React, Typescript, Redux, Postgres, Java, Elasticsearch

Interview Process

A successful candidate will go through the following process:

Step 1: Introductory call where we share more about what we are building, and to hear about what kind of work you are seeking. We may dive a bit into your resume, too. Of course, we want to give you an opportunity to ask questions! This should take 30 minutes.

Step 2: Technical interview where we will ask you to do some coding (in Java). The problem will be related to work we have done, so it will give you a taste for our product space. This should take about 1 hour.

Step 3: Take home project (~3-4 hours). This involves a more complicated problem, which helps us get a sense of how you approach adding new functionality to a pre-existing code base. Given our remote-first work environment, the project shows us what you can do independently. After you submit your solution, we will have a follow-up call to discuss it and ask about how you went about solving it.

We would love for you to meet other members of the team before you make a decision should an offer be rendered.

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