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.
About Filevine:
Filevine is changing the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients. As the leading legal operating system, Filevine is dedicated to empowering organizations with tools to simplify and elevate complex, high-stakes legal work. Powering everything from document and case management to timekeeping, billing and business analytics, over 3,400 law firms and legal teams use Filevine daily to deliver excellence.
2023 was a groundbreaking year for Filevine, as we launched a suite of AI-powered features that are transforming the legal industry.
- LeadsAI helps law firms evaluate cases faster, analyze client sentiment, identify potential problems, and predict case success.
- DemandsAI is an AI-driven demand letter generation solution that helps law firms prepare demand letters more quickly and accurately.
- ImmigrationAI streamlines the immigration process by automating tasks, reducing errors, and ensuring accuracy.
- AI Fields is a powerful tool that can enhance legal work by minimizing manual tasks, facilitating fact-checking, and quickly answering complex queries.
With these groundbreaking AI features, Filevine is empowering law firms and legal teams to deliver excellence to their clients with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
About Outlaw:
In April 2021, we acquired Outlaw, which is an end-to-end, modern contract management solution that streamlines the contract lifecycle for organizations - from templated document generation to cloud-based redlining to real-time negotiation and eSigning. Unlike other contract tools, Outlaw includes an advanced proprietary word processor which enables organizations to transform existing contracts into reusable templates that are error-free and seamlessly editable with dynamic legal logic built in.
We are seeking a Backend Engineer to join Outlaw's agile development team and continue rapidly adding new functionality to our best-in-class platform.
This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering at Outlaw
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Provide expertise to the back end development team by efficiently and productively:
Developing web based applications using technologies such as NodeJS, Webpack, Firebase, ElasticSearch, GCP
Performing day to day maintenance and support of all existing applications in use at Outlaw
Preserving and optimizing the quality of the software
Innovating and improving on the software, features, processes, and technology
Query and manipulate data (troubleshoot, reports, migrations, ...)
API integration and maintenance. (Proprietary Open API, third-party APIs)
Performing detailed code reviews
Work within the assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring and reviewing more junior engineers.
Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide escalated emergency support
Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences
Knowledge & Skills
Required Skills:
7+ years Node.js backend development experience
Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills
PostgreSQL database design and optimization
RESTful API design and implementation
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP strongly preferred)
Express.js or similar web framework
Docker and containerization
Authentication and authorization patterns
Strongly Preferred:
Elasticsearch experience
Microservices architecture
Message queue experience
Performance optimization expertise
Security best practices
AI/ML API integration (OpenAI, Anthropic)
Cloud Functions/serverless experience
Third-party API integration experience
Background job processing
Nice to Have:
Firebase Realtime Database experience
PDF/DOCX document processing
Education
B.S. in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
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
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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