Senior Full‑Stack Developer

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.

Built a collaboration platform - messaging, voice, video - to be used in mobile apps, web etc. 

● Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes deployments

• Demonstrated experience as a software engineer, with at least 8+ years’ experience in technology roles
• Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures, preferably in a B2B or enterprise context
• Significant experience with the Java programming language and frameworks such as Spring & SpringBoot
• Good working experience with front-end Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS
• Experience optimizing databases and SQL queries for high-performance 
• Good knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices - ideally certified
• Experience and keen understanding of the value of working in agile teams
• A “quality-first” mindset, with experience working in continuous integration environments
• Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding design ideas with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
• Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
• Respect for other team members and a highly collaborative approach to working and learning together

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Build and deploy on to AWS
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

As Lead Software Engineer, we are looking for a person who loves to engineer design specs into usable interactions. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the development team to understand and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

This is an innovative role and requires a candidate who is extremely motivated, dedicated, and passionate about development. It's a high growth opportunity to be part of a fast-growing startup!

Key Responsibilities :

- Build scalable web applications using MERN Stack
- Convert visual designs to UI elements with an acute eye for detail and design fidelity
- Make web applications responsive and cross-browser compatible
- Optimize application performance and reduce page loading speed
- Collaborate with various teams to develop new features
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver projects with tight deadlines
- Implement unit tests and integration tests to drive development efficiency.

Requirements :

- 3 years of work experience comprising of Backend(preferably NodeJS), Frontend (React/Angular) and Software Design/Architecture
- 2+ years experience building Production grade applications on ReactJS or Angular - STRICT REQUIREMENT
- Expertise in building UI components in a reusable manner.
- Knowledge of messaging services like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Experience in integrating REST APIs and developing data processing pipelines
- Experience in distributed web services development and chaining
- Understanding of cloud services like AWS and GCP
- Experience with DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD, etc
- Experience in working with Mapping Library like Google Maps, Mapbox or Leaflet is a plus.

Salary - 4-6.5 lpa

• Must Have Experience in JavaScript and jQuery
• Immediate joiner required
• Work from office
• Paid leaves Facility