Mid-Level Software Engineer — Data Systems & AI Integration
Mid-Level Software Engineer — Data Systems & AI Integration Location: Hybrid (NYC / Remote) • Type: Full-Time About OurFirm.ai We're a fast-growing AI litigation platform that turns raw filings, transcripts, and discovery into structured intelligence—powering judge/jury modeling, outcome forecasting, and end-to-end drafting workflows. The Role Build and maintain the data systems that power our AI platform. You'll design and scale pipelines, relational schemas, and retrieval layers that feed our AI systems (RAG, analytics, simulation), while contributing to full-stack features as needed. You Will • Build high-throughput ingestion and transformation pipelines for legal documents and metadata • Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas for analytics and AI retrieval at scale • Implement data cleaning/normalization for messy real-world legal text • Integrate structured data with vector databases and LLM systems for RAG workflows • Optimize queries and indexes for sub-second performance over millions of records • Build API endpoints and backend services (Node.js/Next.js) that expose data to our frontend • Deploy and monitor data infrastructure on AWS (RDS, S3, Lambda, EC2) You Have • 3–6 years in software or data engineering • Strong Python + SQL; Node.js experience preferred • Experience with relational data modeling at scale and ETL/ELT patterns • Familiarity with Prisma ORM or similar ORMs • Knowledge of vector databases (Pinecone/FAISS/Qdrant) and LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic) • Comfortable with distributed data processing (Spark/Dask/Polars a plus) Nice to Have • Legal/regulatory data experience • Next.js/React full-stack development • Knowledge graphs or RAG implementation patterns • Experience with data observability tools Our Stack Next.js • Node.js • Prisma • PostgreSQL • AWS (RDS/S3/Lambda) • Vector DBs • OpenAI/Anthropic APIs/Gemini APIs Why OurFirm.ai • Build foundational infrastructure for a category-defining legal AI platform • Work with a small, senior engineering team (you'll be engineer #2) • Hybrid flexibility with 2-3 days/week in our NYC office • Competitive salary, meaningful equity, full benefits • Direct impact on product direction and technical architecture Apply: [email protected] Include: Resume + GitHub/LinkedIn + brief note on your most complex data system + tell us what makes you tick Apply tot his job