Software Developer Trainee

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.

Role Summary

We’re seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a startup environment. You will lead end-to-end development of key features, own architectural decisions, and ensure the smooth delivery of our product.

Mandatory Skill Sets/Expertise

• 5-6 years of experience in full-stack development, with a strong focus on the MERN / PERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and AWS.

• Expertise in AWS cloud architecture and experience with serverless solutions (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

• Proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Github actions, or similar tools.

• Proven experience leading and guiding a development team, with strong mentoring skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage deliverables without oversight, while thriving in a startup mentality.

• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive approach to addressing technical challenges.

• Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other NoSQL solutions along with ORM tools like Sequalize & Mongoose ORM

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Typescript for both frontend and backend development. • Experience with Docker and containerized applications.

• Familiarity with GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tools or SaaS products.

• Experience with other AWS services like ECS, CloudFormation, or RDS.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, driving best practices in coding and architecture.

• Take full ownership of modules, from design through deployment, and launch web apps singlehandedly if needed.

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using the PERN / MERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) with a focus on scalability, security, and performance.

• Prepare high-level technical designs and architectural decisions, especially on AWS serverless architecture and microservices.

• Implement secure, reliable, and scalable solutions using AWS services • Design and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration and automated deployments.

• Optimize application performance through techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, to define features and user experience improvements.

• Ensure high code quality by adhering to SOLID principles, implementing comprehensive testing, and embedding observability into the application.

• Monitor and respond to application performance incidents, focusing on improving uptime and resilience.

• Proactively offer suggestions during retrospectives and work on enhancing team productivity metrics such as Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, and Mean-Time-to-Recovery

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the project team to gather requirements and understand user needs.
• Design and develop web applications using the MERN stack.
• Write clean and efficient code for both the front-end and back-end.
• Ensure the creation of responsive and cross-browser compatible web applications.
• Optimize applications for speed, performance, and scalability.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, and participate in code reviews.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for front-end interactions.
• Integrate third-party libraries and APIs when required.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest web development trends and best practices.
• Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to meet project deadlines.
• Document code and technical specifications.
• Participate in knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.
• A minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience as a MERN Stack Developer.
• Proficiency in Node.js and Express.js for building the back-end of web applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience in React.js for front-end development.
• Expertise in MongoDB for database design and management.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, ES6+
• Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration.
• Ability to work with HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Problem-solving skills and an aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Experience:

- 2-5 years

Requirements:

- strong backend knowledge in Node.js

- knowledge in typescript would be an added advantage

- frontend tech: React, Vue(Optional)

- familiar with Redux, RTK

- knowledge in db: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB(Optional)

- experience in git

- familiar with linux systems

- familiar with hosting web servers and technologies like nginx, apache

- familiarity with docker is an added advantage

Responsibilities:

- building microservices, REST APIs

- adhering to best security, performance and scalability techniques

- coding complex modules

- code reviews- enforcing best practices

- implementing better application architectures

- strong interest to learn new technologies and adapt

- agile methodology project experience

- experience in estimating projects

- assist in preparing technical documentations

- passion for team work and innovation

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹10,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month

Schedule:

• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kozhikode, Kozhikode - 673019, Kerala: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Angular: 1 year (Preferred)
• total work: 2 years (Required)
• Java: 2 years (Required)

We are looking for a Full Stack Web Developer with 4-6 years’ experience as a web developer in the latest of technologies. As a Full Stack Developer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing web applications that deliver a seamless user experience. You will work on both the front-end and back-end development, ensuring the entire application functions effectively.

Skills Required:

• Good communication and client interfacing skills.
• Solid fundamentals in core JavaScript concepts while working on web projects for 4-6 years.
• Proficient with Frameworks like Node.js/Nest.js, Angular/React/Vue.js/Next.js along with related technologies & frameworks like HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Material UI.
•  Good experience with Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
•  Hands-on experience in building high-quality Web applications.
• Good knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Good knowledge of Docker, Docker Compose.
•  Basic Understanding of Kubernetes.
•  Good experience with Git and branching strategy (preferably GitFlow)
•  Good architectural & design skills.
•  Strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
•  Strong understanding of emerging technologies, standards, and best practices for development.
•  Software development experience with significant time spent working on Cloud technologies preferred.
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Go to the person of the Project lead for complex feature implementations.
• Understand requirements on its own and implement them.
• Create efficient, reusable, and scalable code for both front-end and back-end.
• Optimize applications for maximum performance and responsiveness.
•  Troubleshoot and debug issues in a timely manner.
• Write and maintain technical documentation.
•  Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and best practices in web development.
•  Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and enhance team collaboration.
• Guide junior members in the team to help them improve their skills.

Qualifications:

BTech/BE in computer science, electrical, electronics or related fields 5+ years of full stack design and development experience High emotional intelligence, empathy and collaborative approach. Experience in Angular Javascript frameworks, CSS, HTML5, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB to handle full stack web development. Experience with developing rich dynamic front end applications using Angular and CSS frameworks like BulmaCSS, Angular Material, Bootstrap, etc. Knowledge of GraphQL would be an added advantage. Knowledge of Cloud services like AWS, Heroku, Azure is preferable. Should be a quick learner to keep up with the pace of the ever changing world of technology as the candidate will get excellent exposure to the latest and trending Cloud based Saas technologies and best practices while working with varied customers based across the globe.

Responsibilities:

Develop web applications covering end to end software development life cycle right from writing UI code using Angular to backend API code using NodeJS and managing databases like MongoDB, MySQL, etc. Involved in full stack code management from Git check-ins to running automated builds and deployments using DevOps practices to deploy to public cloud services like AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. Handling full-stack web development workflow right from front end to backend to CI/CD workflows. Design and Develop the tech architecture and work closely with CEO and CTO of the company Drive and guide with work of other engineers on the team

This is a leadership role and candidate is expected to wear multiple technical hats including customer interactions and investor discussions

Job brief

We are looking for a full stack developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a full-stack developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Work with development team to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation

Skill Set required

• Proven experience as a full-stack developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of Node.js and multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks like ES6.
• Familiarity with MongoDB, web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field