Technical Architect

Position Summary

Designing, developing, and debugging new and existing software using Microsoft .Net tools and database platforms. Work in every level of our technology department, providing solutions to meet the needs of our end-users. A Software Engineer will also document solutions and designs, test code modifications and provide mentoring to programmers and junior developers.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with senior engineers to develop high-quality software solutions
• Collaborate with team members to analyze user requirements and design software solutions
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Develop and maintain unit tests to ensure code quality
• Contribute to the design and architecture of microservices-based applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize software applications

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of experience in software development
• Proficiency in C#, .NET, Microservices architecture, SQL, and Azure services
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to ask questions and seek guidance when needed

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with other programming languages and technologies is a plus

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.

• 1-5 years of experience in a full stack software development role.
• Experience in technologies - PHP, Bootstrap, Vuejs and MySQL.
• Knowledge of Cloud services (GCP/AWS), MongoDB and Nodejs is a plus.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Ability to design for scale and performance
• Ability to do peer code reviews
• Solid problem-solving skills

Responsibilities and Duties 

•      Develop high-quality software design and architecture.

•      Achieve the timeline with quality delivery of assigned tasks.

•      Able to do technical analysis and code review.

•      Able to troubleshoot internal & production bugs.

•      Coordinate and support to project co-ordinator/project manager.

•      Development coding standards are achieved. 

•      Work with internal teams to understand and analyse their needs and to ensure that proposed solution caters to same.

•      Adopt new technology in quick time.

•      Implement Unit tests and Functional tests to ascertain highest quality of deliverables.

•      Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.

•      Understand business needs and know how to implement needs in the system to meet business needs.

•      Able to create technical documents.

•      Able to lead team members and plan team’s task.

•      Design, develop, modify, implement, and support software components anywhere in the software stack.

•      Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management.

Qualifications

•      Having knowledge of .NET C#, .NET Core, Angular JS, Web API, Micro Services, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap.

•      Critical thinker and creative mindset and the ability to approach a problem creatively.

•      Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues. •      A meticulous approach to work.

•      A team player but can work independently too.

•      Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•      Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

•      Database knowledge spanning across SQL, PL/SQL, MSSQL Server, Performance tuning and RDBMS is preferred.

•      Proven track record of successful and timely project delivery.

•      Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•      Demonstrated ability to lead others. 

Cloud Platform Core forms the foundation of SAP Cloud Platform, providing key capabilities and services around platform core components [like Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes], extension factory, commercial infrastructure services, platform services, data management services etc

As an integral member of the SAP Cloud Platform Core Unit in Bangalore, India, you will be contributing to development in one of the following areas:

1. Data Management Services for Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes Environments – Both SAP Managed and Cloud Provider based data management services
2. Kubernetes as a Service – Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Cluster as a Service
3. Kernel Services – Enable the development of SAP CP Kernel Services -   technical services used by all SAP cloud solutions to make the Intelligent Enterprise a reality for our customers

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Demonstrate excellent quality, design, development and delivery skills in scrum teams working in short development and release cycles.
• Use and extend Open Source frameworks heavily and contribute to them, as well.
• Work with geographically distributed teams seamlessly
• Building upon domain knowledge in the area of application and service development in cloud and also in the technical/proprietary skills to reach levels of expertise
• Having a logical approach to problem solving and have the ability to respond to detailed queries
• Working as a fully contributing team member with independent planning & execution responsibilities
• Site reliability engineering for the Service that your team is responsible for

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Excellent programming know-how in JAVA/JavaScript/C++/NodeJS/Ruby/GO or in any other languages especially framework development. Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Passion towards adopting and contributing to open source
• Ability to work with the team in the design and development aspects for the product
• Good understanding of building scalable Web Applications/Cloud Services using cutting edge Web Technologies (JQuery, Server-Side JS, REST, OData)
• Sound knowledge in Object Oriented Programming Principles, Design Patterns, Software Architecture
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Goal-oriented team worker with good communication skills. Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to work independently, and eagerness to learn and explore new topics
• Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Languages – Java, NodeJS, Golang
• Scripting Languages – Chef, Python, Shell Scripting
• UI – AngularJS, Object Oriented JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SAP UI5
• Storage & Databases – Swift, S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Messaging - RabbitMQ
• PaaS & Container Orchestration – Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes
• IaaS – AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/WORK EXPERIENCE

• Masters or bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology, majoring in Computer Science, from a premiere institute, with excellent academic records.
• Sound understanding cloud native development and architecture
• 2-6 years of relevant experience in software development

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

• 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

• Write technical documentation

• Proven experience in Software Development

• Experience developing web applications

• Knowledge and Understanding  of programming languages(e.g. Java, Python, C, C++) and Understanding JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)

• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) 

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Great attention to detail

We are looking for a full stack developer to produce scalable software solutions.

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:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.
• Proficiency with server side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

Reporting directly to the Founder

The job requires a great deal of responsibility early on, but we're working on something exciting and there's lots of opportunity of growth and learning.

The job is full-time, remotely based, and with flexible hours.