Python Backend / Data Engineer
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About the Position
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We are seeking a Python Backend / Data Engineer for a US-focused legal-tech company that is building a platform combining legal research, workflow automation, and AI-powered tools. The project includes a legal data infrastructure that collects and processes data from official US legal sources, including laws, legislation, and court decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable data-ingestion pipelines from multiple external sources.
- Build configurable source integrations that can be managed through an operations panel.
- Process documents through OCR, structured extraction, and data transformation pipelines.
- Categorize and classify large volumes of legal data.
- Build backend capabilities supporting search and data exploration.
- Help design a lightweight knowledge-graph layer for tracking relationships and changes in legal data.
- Implement monitoring and fallback mechanisms for unavailable or changed data sources.
- Maintain modular backend services with clear interfaces/contracts.
Requirements
- 3+ years of Python development experience
- Strong commercial experience with FastAPI or similar Python backend frameworks
- Experience building ETL and data-ingestion pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Understanding of scalable data-processing architectures
- Experience integrating external APIs, feeds, scraping, or other data sources
- Experience with document processing, OCR, search systems, or knowledge graphs is a strong advantage
- Strong software architecture and OOP skills
We Offer
- Remote working format
- Flexible working hours
- Informal and friendly atmosphere
- The ability to focus on your work: a lack of bureaucracy and micromanagement
- 20 paid vacation days
- 7 paid sick leaves
About the Company
Our client is a US-focused legal-tech company building a platform that combines legal research, workflow automation, and AI-powered tools.
Recruitment Process
- Recruitment Interview
- Technical Interview
- Client Interview
Our Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Challenging projects: Work on a product used by the world's largest financial institutions
- No bureaucracy: Great management with no bureaucracy
- Remote work: An opportunity to work from anywhere
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