Staff Backend Engineer

About The Role

At Robin AI, we bring together amazing people in engineering, AI, and the law to create groundbreaking products that are transforming legal teams. Our current product blends traditional engineering, neural networks, and LLMs to read and comprehend written contracts, assess whether they adhere to our customers’ preferred positions, and automatically amend them. But our ambitions go way beyond reviewing contracts; we want to build technology that changes the way people and companies all over the world engage with legal services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Backend development in a product-focused squad.
• Make key design and implementation decisions, writing high-quality, well-tested code that solves challenging problems.
• Work closely with other teams and people, such as Product Managers and ML Research Engineers, to deliver great products.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers in the squad, ensuring best practices are being followed.
• Play a key role in the recruitment of other Backend engineers at Robin AI.
• Develop back-end services and GraphQL APIs using Django, Flask, and similar Python frameworks.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure our products and components are deployed to.
• Identify and prioritize tasks in conjunction with a Product Manager, considering company objectives and goals.

Our Tech Stack

Our frontend is built using React and Apollo, and we use Python web frameworks, such as Django and Flask, to implement our back-end services, alongside various other services and libraries such as Celery and Elasticsearch. Everything runs on AWS services, including but not limited to ECS, Lambda, and SQS. We use CircleCI to build and deploy, and all of our infrastructure is managed using Terraform.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with web-based languages (Python, Go, Node.js) and associated frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask).
• Background working in a start-up or similar size organization and a passion for building high-quality products.
• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development, and deployment).

Compensation

• Salary: $180,000-$250,000
• Generous Equity package

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Coverage
• Long-term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k Retirement
• Flex spending and HSA
• 15 days PTO, excluding national holidays, cultural leave, and birthday leave

Robin AI cannot offer sponsorship in the US but can provide visa transfer/extension.

Work Environment

Robin's flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Robin employees have the flexibility to work from home 2/3 days per week.

From our offices in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA, you’ll have access to all of the WeWork amenities including co-working space, bike lockers, pool tables, table tennis, free barista-made coffee, and free beer in the evenings.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We want to break diversity, equality, and inclusion barriers within the tech industry. In building our team, we value the unique contributions everyone can bring. We encourage applications from everyone who wants to be a part of our mission. We value everyone’s religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, neurodivergence, education, nation of origin, age, pregnancy and maternity, or veteran’s status.

We want our hiring process to let you show off your best self. If you think any accommodations may be helpful for the interview process, please let your recruiter know.