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Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

full-time•San Francisco•$160k - $180k

Summary

Location

San Francisco

Salary

$160k - $180k

Type

full-time

Experience

10+ years

Company links

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About this role

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.

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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


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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.

What you'll do

  • The Senior Software Engineer will design and build core systems for the AI-native workflow engine, working across various technologies. Responsibilities include building full-stack features, architecting backend services, and collaborating with customers to improve contract review processes.

About Filevine

Filevine is changing the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients. As the leading legal work platform, Filevine is dedicated to empowering organizations with tools to simplify and elevate complex, high-stakes legal work. Powering everything from document management and client communication to timekeeping, billing, payments, and business analytics, over 125,000 legal professionals use Filevine daily to deliver excellence in every contract, deadline, and result. In 2024, Filevine was named among the fastest-growing companies in the United States according to the Inc 5000, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Utah Business Fast 50 lists. Filevine believes in a brighter future where the intersection of legal work, technology and business is made more seamless, transparent, and effortless for all legal professionals and everyone they interact with.

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Filevine offers a competitive compensation package for the Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) role. The salary range is USD 160k - 180k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.

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As a Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) at Filevine, you will: the Senior Software Engineer will design and build core systems for the AI-native workflow engine, working across various technologies. Responsibilities include building full-stack features, architecting backend services, and collaborating with customers to improve contract review processes..

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The Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) position at Filevine is based in San Francisco, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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