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Senior Backend Engineer

August Home

$190,000 - $315,000
Sep 18, 2025
New York, NY, US
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August is building AGI for law to transform how lawyers retrieve knowledge, reason through documents, and automate complex workflows, giving legal teams a massive edge by scaling agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building products, either in grad school or in production environments; strong Python skills
  • Demonstrated ability to ship quickly especially in early-stage environments while building scalable enterprise software

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy agentic systems using Python to automate, evaluate, and scale end-to-end legal workflows
  • Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our customers and legal team.
  • Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism.

Other

  • Grit - experience working with early-stage startups is a plus.
  • Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
  • Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
  • Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
  • Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.