Pincites is an AI contract negotiation assistant embedded in Microsoft Word. We help legal teams review and redline contracts faster. You can read more at pincites.com.

We’re an early stage startup (YC S23) with great investors and early traction. Our customers include tech unicorns and organizations you know. We’ve doubled our revenue in the first three months of 2024 and are at an inflection point in our growth.

About our team

Our founding team combines experience from big law, big tech, and high-growth startups.

• Grey is a repeat entrepreneur. He cut his teeth at GoCardless (YC S11) as employee #3, then co-founded, built and sold Dependabot (acquired by GitHub in 2019). Before Pincites he was VP of Product at GitHub.
• Sona is a practiced attorney with expertise in transactional law and intellectual property. She has a background as a strategic consultant in legal tech, where she helped companies automate their internal processes for almost three years.
• Mariam worked as a software engineer at Meta and as an engineer and PM at a legal tech startup before joining GitHub as a product manager for security products, where she led the secret scanning teams.

We’re looking for a smart, ambitious founding engineer, based in New York City, to build the future of contract negotiation with us.

As a Founding Engineer at Pincites, you’ll be responsible for the development and scaling of our web app and Word add-in, as well as new products crucial in automating contract negotiations. You’ll have a front-row seat at a fast-growth AI startup that ships daily, making contract review better for thousands of companies.

About Pincites

Pincites is an AI contract negotiation assistant for busy legal and procurement teams. Pincites accelerates contract redlining within Microsoft Word, offering AI-generated suggestions and comments tailored to client preferences.

With support from top investors like Nat Friedman, General Catalyst, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Y Combinator, we’ve generated significant annual recurring revenue and serve legal teams globally. We're on a high-growth trajectory, aiming to build a billion-dollar company.

We are venture-funded, in the seed stage, and assembling a world-class team. As an founding member of our team, you’ll join us on this exciting ride with a meaningful stake in the action.

Why Legal

AI for legal represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to tap into a $300B annual market in a traditional, highly profitable vertical ripe for automation. This is a wide-open, competitive market with big gains to the winner—we want you to help us remain in front. It’s hard to imagine a world where AI doesn’t completely change how companies approach contracts, and many legal teams now have mandates to incorporate AI (a quick scroll through a few legal job postings will prove my point).

About You

As a Founding Engineer at Pincites, you’ll be responsible for the development and scaling of our web app and Word add-in, as well as new products that will be crucial in automating contract negotiations. You’ll have a front row seat at a fast growth AI startup that ships daily as we make contract review better for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work and wants to build something great.

• You’re passionate about quality. You’re excited about working with a team and customers who care about the details
• You have great product sense. You’re always thinking about the customer and how they’ll experience what you’re building
• You’re a self-starter. You love taking ownership, aren’t afraid of ambiguity, and are excited about the impact you can have at a startup
• You’re a great colleague. You go out of your work to have a positive impact on those around you

On the technical side you’re an expert with your core tools:

• You write clean, maintainable, well tested code
• You’re an expert at Go, React, TypeScript

Our Founders

We’re led by a 3x product and engineering executive with 13 years of startup experience, with his most recent exit to Microsoft. His legal cofounder counterpart is an AI-obsessed technology and privacy attorney with extensive big law and legal tech experience, who’s a verified expert in building and implementing technology for legal teams. Our final cofounder was the lead of the secret scanning teams at GitHub and former fast-track Meta engineer. We have legal, FAANG, and startup experience nailed to a tee.

This is a unique opportunity to learn from the best engineering and product minds in the startup world, and you've got your target user in-house.

Anyone can build an AI-powered demo. The technical challenges come when you try to build a product customers love.

• We push the limits of what the AI can do. Getting the best out of LLMs requires orchestrating complicated chains of requests using prompts that have been methodically developed. We benchmark and iterate our prompts to achieve results others can't match.
• We integrate with our users' current tools. For lawyers that means Microsoft Word, and we're not afraid of becoming experts in technologies like OOXML or officejs to better serve them. It's the difference between a good experience and a great one.
• We sweat the details to build a great product. We keep things fast with hundred of parallel request to OpenAI, keep them intuitive with constant iteration of our frontend, and keep them reliable by fixing every bug customers experience.

To power the above we keep it simple with our tech stack:

• React / TypeScript for our web frontend and Word add-in
• Go for our backend API
• PostgreSQL with pgvector for our data store
• GCP and Vercel for our backend and frontend hosting
• OpenAI as our foundation model provider