Backend Engineer

Company Overview

Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters, is a fast-growing legal technology company tackling the $6 billion U.S. legal research market and advancing the cause of justice by empowering all attorneys to provide high-quality, efficient, and affordable representation to their clients. Our award winning research platform helps millions of users access and understand the law every month, and our AI-powered search tools are at the cutting edge of search technology.

About the Role

Casetext is seeking a Backend Engineer to help grow CoCounsel, our state of the art AI legal assistant. As a Backend Engineer, you'll expand the capabilities of our chat service, a user-facing LLM-powered hub that understands and routes to all of CoCounsel's skills. You'll collaborate with those skills' teams to identify implementation patterns and developer pain points, and address them with improvements to our skill framework. Our ideal candidate is curious and sympathetic with a keen eye for simplicity. This role is entirely remote, but you must be based in the U.S. and authorized to work in the U.S.

As the Backend Engineer You Will...

• Develop CoCounsel's chat service
• Identify skill implementation patterns and developer pain points
• Develop reusable solutions for those patterns and alleviate those pain points
• Connect CoCounsel's chat service to skills using simple, extensible APIs

About You

• 3+ years professional software engineering experience
• You are proficient in Python, with recent professional experience
• You are familiar with type systems
• You are familiar with HTTP APIs, especially REST
• You have an eye for simple, pragmatic API design
• Low ego, intelligent, sympathetic and collaborative 
• Understands that tech is a means to an end
• Can communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Nice to haves: Experience with SQL, Docker, Statically typed language (Java, C++ or Scala) & GCP or other cloud services like AWS
  

Salary Range: $110,000-$140,000, total compensation

As listed above, the salary range for this role's listed level is currently $110,000-140,000 annually. Compensation is determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data and geographic location. This role is also eligible for Thomson Reuter's Annual Incentive Plan as a part of our total compensation strategy. This role is 100% remote, but you must be a resident of the U.S. The salary range listed is for U.S. residents only. 

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401k plus match
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) 
• Generous Parental Leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Wellness Benefits
• 529 College Savings Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Annual Incentive Bonus Plan (eligible for roles without commission structure) 
• ...And more!

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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