Software Engineer

Software EngineerDocDraft is an AI-powered legal platform. We pair AI-generated documents with licensed attorney oversight to make legal services accessible to consumers and small businesses. Our platform handles sensitive client data, real-time AI workflows, and attorney handoffs across a network covering the U.S We're hiring a generalist engineer who can move across the stack. You'll spend meaningful time on reliability and infrastructure, but you'll also ship product, build internal tools, and work on whatever needs to get done. We're a small team, and we value range.What you'll doOwn reliability, observability, and incident response as we scaleBuild and harden CI/CD, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure on VercelTune Postgres for performance, reliability, and costBuild and improve vertical AI agents that handle real legal workflowsShip features and improvements across the product when priorities call for itBuild internal tools that make our attorneys and operators fasterStrengthen security posture, including data handling for sensitive legal informationPartner closely with our CTO on architecture and product decisionsWhat we're looking for5+ years building and operating production softwareStrong Python skillsHands-on experience with Next.js, Vercel, and PostgresComfort with observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, or similar)Strong interest in building vertical AI agents and shipping AI-native productsFluent with AI coding agents in day-to-day work (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar). You treat them as leverage, not a novelty.Range: you've shipped product, debugged infra, and written internal tools, and you don't need to specialize to do good workPragmatic judgment about what to build, what to buy, and what to ignoreBackground in regulated or security-sensitive environments is a plus