[Hiring] Senior Member of Technical Staff @Clera

Role Description

Join a product engineering team building software for complex legal work. You will own engineering challenges across document processing, AI integrations, APIs, and user-facing features, helping make important document workflows reliable and practical.

What You'll Do

• Build reliable APIs, backend services, and document processing workflows for research, drafting, review, and finished work.
• Deliver core product features from technical design through release and iteration, collaborating with engineers and legal experts.
• Integrate AI capabilities into practical workflows while focusing on quality, speed, and dependable behavior.
• Improve interfaces for complex document tasks and work across the stack to make them easier to use.
• Translate user needs into engineering plans and communicate the tradeoffs behind technical decisions.
• Improve performance, investigate production issues, and strengthen testing, monitoring, and code quality.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping and maintaining production web applications or services, with strong software design fundamentals.
• Strong programming skills in a modern language such as Python or TypeScript.
• Experience with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, or distributed backend systems, including building reliable APIs and services.
• Experience with document processing workflows and integrating AI or LLM capabilities into production systems.
• A practical approach to testing, code review, debugging, and improving systems after launch.
• Clear written communication, ownership, and ability to collaborate with a distributed, cross-functional team.
• Frontend development, complex data or security needs, legal technology, workflow automation, or related experience is useful.

Benefits

• Annual base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 USD, depending on skills, experience, and role scope.
• The role offers substantial ownership and direct input into product decisions.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.

Company Description

Remote within the United States.