Founding Product Engineer

Founding Product Engineer

A law-tech startup, coming off of a strong Series A funding round, is in expansion mode and are looking for an experienced Product Engineer

The startup is on a mission to replace the slow, expensive, traditional legal experience with AI agents that make world-class legal expertise fast, affordable, and accessible to every business.

As the companies Founding Product Engineer, you will build the platform that’s reinventing how legal work gets done. You'll sit next to attorneys and AI engineers, turning real legal judgment into software that ships fast and holds a high bar.

Responsibilities

• Build and own core product features across the stack, from data models to the interfaces attorneys and clients use every day.

• Partner closely with AI engineers and attorneys to turn legal workflows and review playbooks into reliable software.

• Make pragmatic architecture and tooling decisions that let us move fast now without painting us into a corner later.

• Own quality: write maintainable code, build for reliability, and take responsibility for what you ship in production.

• Help define engineering culture, standards, and hiring as the team grows.

• Move work over the finish line when it matters — customer experience always comes first.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years building and shipping production software, ideally at an early-stage company, or as a founder at your own company

• You thrive in an environment with an exceptionally high bar, where everyone is expected to go above and beyond

• You have strong product instincts and full-stack ability (e.g., TypeScript/React on the front end, a modern backend stack, relational databases)

• You have built something with AI/LLMs, either in a job or on your own

• You have a track record of owning features end to end and making sound engineering trade-offs

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and worked in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment

• You have excellent judgment and communication, and a high bar for your own work

• JOB ID: 183493

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• Prince Agyemang