Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Test
Company - Fileread AI
Location - New York City, 10 minutes from Midtown Manhattan
About Us: Fileread AI is a legal focused AI startup building frontier AI tools to help litigation teams collaborate, gather insights, and uncover the hidden story in their case data. We help firms discover case-winning information and gaps that are often missed in traditional reviews.
Our current customer base are top tier law firms that handle large complex litigations and we have analyzed some of the highest-profile, world-defining litigation matters.
We are backed by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI Fund) , Soma Capital, and HF0.
Position Overview
We’re looking for an experienced, senior software engineer to help us scale our AI & Software stack. We work at the bleeding edge, and you’ll have a chance to integrate frontier AI and move very quickly to adapt/integrate new changes in developments in the industry. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining production-ready, robust solutions services and APIs, as well as leading quality & test engineering efforts to build testing strategies for high quality delivery.
If you’re interested to work in frontier AI, AI agents, vector databases, single tenant / secure architectures, and lead / guide the team on quality engineering best practices to deliver production ready, bug free solutions, come join us!
Required Qualifications
- 4 years of experience as a backend developer, developer in test / qa, shipping code used in production (YOE)
- Proficiency in Python
- Production-level experience with quality engineering (CICD, observability platforms, building/strategizing testing platforms, test automation, software versioning with GIt)
- Experience developing restful APIs, scalable microservices, unit & e2e tests, relational / semi-structured databases, single tenant architectures
- Experience working with pub/sub
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
Preferred Qualifications + Bonuses:
- Have worked with generative AI, vector DBs, Model Evals, Prompt Management
- Experience with containerization / orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Why Join Fileread AI?
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
- Making a direct and transformational impact on the future of the legal profession
- Innovate and trailblaze with ML Engineers on novel AI techniques
- Working directly with the leadership team
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- A collaborative and inclusive company culture
Top Skills
Fileread AI New York, New York, USA Office
2807 JACKSON AVE STE 7-152 5TH FLOOR, New York, NY, United States, 11101
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