Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

LinkSquares is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join a high performing engineering team working on the most critical AI engineering projects in the company, with high visibility, accountability, breadth, and impact. The team has full ownership end-to-end for designing, building, shipping, and iterating on generative AI solutions that help legal users save time.  Our AI-powered, end-to-end contract lifecycle management and analytics platform takes the manual, time-consuming, tedious tasks out of the contracting process.  With LinkSquares, legal, finance, HR, and procurement teams save time, cut costs, and improve business outcomes. 

Responsibilities:

• A heavy focus on designing/implementing/reviewing solutions in AWS, Python, Rails, React, fixing issues, addressing customer feedback, closing loops, and refining/hardening/scaling our generative AI infrastructure
• Provide hands-on improvements to backend/frontend/infrastructure on the core Generative AI offering
• Debug/observe/review/augment a high-scale distributed system built with Rails, Python (FastAPI), RabbitMQ, and AWS ECS that lies at the heart of one of LinkSquares’ core value propositions: extracting meaningful insights from legal contracts.
• Assist with AI orchestration, building AI agents, and polishing AI interactions
• Assist with React PR reviews and light frontend fixes
• Provide light prompt engineering and search relevance implementation assistance
• Support the team on Python/Rails API PR reviews / design reviews
• Assist with AWS infrastructure for data engineering. For example, you might establish an AWS Firehose to Iceberg data replication solution for our Snowflake and internal BI tools
• Make occasional infrastructure changes in AWS to facilitate microservices communication and enable the team to ship faster.

Qualifications and professional attributes:

• Years of experience designing, building, shipping, and iterating on SaaS solutions at scale
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, Rails, and Python
• Experience and comfort with React
• An insatiable appetite for shipping improvements daily
• Flexibility to provide value wherever you can in whatever domain is needed
• Comfort with ambiguity, and an ability to bring order to technical complexity
• Opinions on architecture and technical design
• A desire to connect with and understand our users’ problems
• Input on the product roadmap, especially from a feasibility standpoint
• EQ is as important as IQ. We deliver our best results for customers when we collaborate as a team. We take pride in and seek to preserve our friendly, transparent, enthusiastic, blameless engineering culture.

About LinkSquares

LinkSquares is the leading contract lifecycle management company in the legal industry, named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM). 

Businesses run on contracts—they drive revenue, manage obligations, enable financing, and support reporting activities. Our AI-powered CLM SaaS product suite delivers end-to-end solutions trusted by some of the world’s most respected organizations, including DraftKings, Wayfair, TIME, and the Boston Celtics. We are proud to support our customers in achieving their goals, and remain dedicated to delivering value and innovation to meet their needs. We are a 200+ person company headquartered in downtown Boston.

We ranked #174 on Deloitte’s Fastest-Growing Companies in North America and named the “Contract Management Solution Provider Of The Year” by LegalTech Breakthrough Awards, and were proudly featured at #707 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.

LinkSquares is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.