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Backend Engineer, AI / Search

  2025-10-06     Ruli     San Francisco,CA  
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We're building an AI-powered legal intelligence platform to reimagine the $350B enterprise legal market, one of the most underserved spaces for decades. Our team comes from Google, Meta, Airbnb, Amazon, top law firms, and startups — and we're backed by top VCs. As part of our founding engineering team, you'll play a critical role in building core technology and ship everyday.

What you'll do:

  • Build and scale AI-driven search & ranking systems (Elasticsearch, Vector DB).
  • Develop backend infrastructure to handle document-heavy workloads.
  • Work closely with product engineers to translate customer needs into features.
  • Work on document pipelines, OCR, and RAG.
  • Collaborate directly with founders and customers to ship fast and drive product direction.
  • Example challenge: Design a system that can automatically find and compare similar clauses across millions of past contracts.

What we're looking for:

  • 3-7 years of experience
  • Hustler mindset; comfortable in a fast-paced, 50~60+ hours/week startup
  • Previous backend experience, ideally at an early stage startup
  • Proficient in Python / Typescript
  • Previous AI search and ranking experience
  • Familiarity with serverless infrastructure and LLM prompt engineering
  • Experience with Elasticsearch and document-heavy systems
  • Previous experience in CRM, gov tech, reg tech, or legal tech (huge plus)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco (2–3 days/week in person)

Next.js / React / Typescript / Python / AWS

Comp: $150K–$250K base + equity, full benefits, 401(k), flexible PTO — final package depends on interview and experience.

  • Apply with your GitHub or links showcasing what you've built.
  • 2–3 conversations with founders or future teammates (experience, product brainstorming / design, and culture fit). No coding test.
  • A short paid work trial in SF (a couple days, can accommodate at weekends) to implement a real Ruli feature.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

  • Software Development

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