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

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

We have challenges at all levels of the stack, from building beautiful web technology and training NLP models to optimizing Postgres and ElasticSearch queries to deal with an ever-growing scale. We have a heavy JVM footprint and are fans of gradle, Dropwizard, Dagger, jOOQ, Docker, Prometheus and Grafana.

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

What we value

• Strong communication skills in an open environment.
• Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• Interest in working in a dynamic environment with dynamic objectives.
• Individual autonomy and ownership, building quality products.
• Being open to giving and receiving feedback.

About You

We're looking for engineers who have:

• A passion for shipping high-quality product that delights users
• Extensive experience in Java
• Interest in the data products space, and a love of building tools that empower lawyers to do more
• Interest and curiosity about the bigger picture of building a company, including go-to-market, customer development, people, and marketing
• Interest in helping us build an engineering organization
• Interest in ownership and autonomy
• 5+ years as a professional software engineer
• Time Zones: GMT-08:00 to GMT+04:00, but flexible

It's also great if you have:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Worked with elements in our tech stack:
  • Product: Java 21, JOOQ, DropWizard, Dagger
  • Data: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Tensoflow/Keras
  • DevOps: AWS, On-Premise
• Experience in building, deploying, maintaining deployment infrastructure
• Experience building data-intensive applications, such as NLP, search and indexing, and data processing
• Interest in being involved in engineering design decisions

What we offer

• All-remote work style, work anywhere. Ideally within UTC+4 to UTC-7
• Equity plan
• Competitive salary
• Private medical care
• New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Opportunity to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world

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