Lead Full Stack Engineer ( MERN + Python )

Founding Engineer - LITMAS

About LITMAS

LITMAS is revolutionizing litigation with the first AI-powered platform built specifically for elite litigators. We're transforming how attorneys research, strategize, draft, and win cases by combining comprehensive case repositories with cutting-edge AI validation and workflow automation. We are a team incubated by experienced litigators, building the future of legal technology.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a Founding Engineer to join our core team and shape the technical foundation of LITMAS. This is a rare opportunity to build a category-defining product from the ground up, working directly with the founders to create technology that will transform the US litigation market.

As a founding engineer, you'll have significant ownership over our technical architecture, product decisions, and company culture. Your code will directly impact how thousands of attorneys practice law.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build core platform features using Python, Node.js, Next.js, React, and MongoDB
• Design and implement production-grade LLM systems with advanced tool usage, RAG pipelines, and agent architectures
• Build AI workflows that combine multiple tools for legal research, validation, and document analysis
• Create scalable RAG infrastructure to handle thousands of legal documents with high accuracy
• Implement AI tool chains to provide agents tool inputs
• Design intuitive interfaces that make complex legal workflows simple and powerful
• Own end-to-end features from conception through deployment and iteration
• Establish engineering best practices for AI systems including evaluation, monitoring, and safety
• Collaborate directly with founders on product strategy and technical roadmap

The Ideal Candidate

You're not just an AI engineer, you're someone who understands how to build reliable, production-grade AI systems that users can trust. You've wrestled with RAG accuracy, tool reliability, and LLM hallucinations in production. You know the difference between a demo and a system that handles real-world complexity. You're excited about applying AI to transform how legal professional’s work.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• Deployed production-grade LLM applications with demonstrable experience in:
• Tool usage and function calling
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementation at scale
• Agent architectures and multi-step reasoning
• Prompt engineering and optimization
• Knowledge of multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, open-source models)
• Background in building AI evaluation and monitoring systems
• Experience with document processing and OCR technologies
• 3+ years of production experience with Node.js, Python, Next.js, and React
• Strong MongoDB expertise including schema design and optimization
• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar)
• Full-stack mindset with ability to own features from database to UI
• Track record of shipping complex web applications at scale
• Deep understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination prevention, and validation techniques

Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB
• Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Modern CSS
• AI/ML: LangChain/LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, vector databases, custom AI tools
• Additional: Document processing, search infrastructure, real-time collaboration

What We Offer

• Significant equity stake true ownership in the company you're building
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience
• Direct impact your decisions shape the product and company
• Learning opportunity work with cutting-edge AI and legal technology
• Flexible work remote-first with a global team
• AI resources access to latest models and compute resources

Interview Process

One more thing: Our process includes deep technical interviews and fit conversations. As part of the evaluation, there will be an extensive take-home test that should expect to take at least 4-5 hours depending on your skill level. This allows us to see how you approach real problems similar to what you'll encounter at LITMAS.

As a Staff Full-stack engineer, you will work across the Acceldata platform products. We’re looking for people with a strong background or inclination towards data engineering and systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and can work at the  intersection of Databases, API's and Frontends

You will:          

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
• Design, build and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, and services.
• Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
• Work with MVC frameworks such as React or Angular 
• Work with database systems, RDBMS, Mongo, Elastic Search.
• Develop shared front-end components (JavaScript & CSS) for use across all of our products, enabling other UI engineers to build better products faster.

You need:      

• 8+ years of significant of web-application development experience in one or more JS frameworks. You care about building better products.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
• You're as comfortable writing plain JavaScript as working with modern frameworks like Angular. You've built your own controls and widgets in JavaScript. 
• You write unit tests for your JavaScript (really, you do). You've probably used Node. You have built complex JS web applications.
• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented 

Good to have:

• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Background in enterprise software
• JVM performance tuning and debugging

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platform, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.