Senior Software Engineer
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Job description
About the Position
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at Midpage in New York City. Midpage is the legal search engine powering the largest AI and legal technology companies in the world. Our products are used by more than 300 law firms, and 200,000 people read cases on Midpage each month. We're on a mission to build the largest case law dataset, and we need your expertise to help us achieve this goal.
Responsibilities
- Building pipelines that augment documents with metadata, such as which decisions overrule another decision, which decisions are an appeal/remand/consolidation of another decision, etc.
- Building systems to ensure the reliability and accuracy of hundreds of web scrapers.
- Optimizing and evaluating our core utilities, which do things like extracting and resolving citations, determining which courts are able to overrule which other courts, etc.
- Exposing core services on our data via APIs, MCPs, websockets.
- Benchmarking and evaluation of core tasks (human and synthetic).
Requirements
- Technical generalist with experience across the backend (bonus for fullstack).
- Comfortable working with data pipelines, including basic to intermediate infra/devops.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Ability to stand up your own projects on your preferred infrastructure end-to-end.
- Interest/experience with stats/ML/AI is a bonus, but not critical.
Nice to Have
- Experience with the following technologies: ElasticSearch, Playwright, GCP, Pinecone, Prefect, NeonDB.
We Offer
- Base salary: $220,000–$280,000 per year
- Equity: up to 0.4%
- 401(k): 50% match on contributions up to 5% of salary
- Health insurance
- Lunch at office, dinner when staying late
- Unlimited PTO
Estimated Total Compensation
- $319,000–$381,000
About the Company
Midpage is the legal search engine quietly powering the largest AI and legal technology companies in the world. More than 300 law firms use our products, 200k people read cases on Midpage each month, and 5 multibillion-dollar organizations including Perplexity trust us as their legal data supplier. Our ARR has 10x’d to $3M in the past few months.
Visa Sponsorship
Visa sponsorship is available; relocation is not available.
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