Senior Backend Engineer-Timely - Filevine

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer-Timely
Job Location: United States
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/filevine/364b62f2-b81d-4e3d-bc3c-8ac8f8943595
Job Description: Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to lead the architecture and development of a new, high-availability forms engine. You will work directly with our Lead Architect to replace a legacy system with a modern, scalable solution capable of serving enterprise customers. This role requires a builder who embraces AI tools (LLMs, Copilot) to accelerate coding and logic mapping, ensuring we meet aggressive deprecation timelines. You will also act as an owner of the new platform as while we transition customers off of the legacy system.
Responsibilities

Architect & Build: Design and implement the backend infrastructure for a scalable, AI-driven forms engine that supports family law, workers' comp, and bankruptcy verticals.

AI Integration: Implement and optimize "AI-first" workflows, including auto-mapping models and evaluation harnesses to automate the conversion of PDF forms into digital workflows.

Legacy Migration: Lead the technical strategy for migrating data and logic from a legacy platform, ensuring zero data loss and maintaining compliance standards.

Performance & Scale: Ensure the platform is "e-filing ready" and capable of handling high-volume, concurrent usage from large enterprise and government clients.

Mentorship & Review: Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to ensure high-quality standards, serving as a key "knowledge bridge" in the absence of the Lead Architect.

Tooling & DevOps: Collaborate with SREs to build robust CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and automated diff/repair mechanisms for form updates.

Qualifications

Professional Experience & Education

Experience Level: Senior-level expertise with 6+ years of software engineering experience (minimum 5+ years specifically in backend development).

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Technical Skills

Backend Proficiency: Strong mastery of C# and .NET (version 8.0+). Additional proficiency in Node.js or Python is highly valued.

Frontend Experience: Competency with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Svelte.

Soft Skills & Communication

Stakeholder Management: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical risks, architectural decisions, and project progress to stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Haves)

Modern API Tech: Experience with GraphQL.

Cloud & Infrastructure: Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.

Optimization: Experience building high-availability applications and performing advanced performance optimization.

Domain Context: Familiarity with Filevine’s specific tech stack.