Sr Product Engineer

About the role

You will partner directly with the founding team and early customers to define and deliver a world-class AI-native legal product that defines the future of immigration services. This role owns the complete lifecycle of critical features, from initial discovery and database architecture to the final user interaction in the browser. You will be responsible for ensuring that every feature you ship is not only functional but also fast, reliable, and transparent for both our clients and our internal legal team. You will act as the primary bridge between complex legal requirements and scalable technical implementation, turning nuanced workflows into intuitive software. The position requires a rare blend of deep backend expertise and frontend fluency to iterate quickly and ship complete user experiences. You will have the autonomy to identify painful workflows and proactively refactor or rebuild them to create significant efficiency gains. Ultimately, your work will directly impact how millions of people navigate the immigration process, making it less stressful and far more accessible.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Collaborate with the founding team and early customers to architect and deliver a new generation of AI-powered legal workflows.
• Own the end-to-end implementation of features, writing server logic, database schemas, and user interface components that go live in production.
• Translate complex immigration legal processes into intuitive digital experiences that serve both external clients and internal attorneys.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to prototype, build, and refine features at an accelerated pace.
• Operate as a force multiplier by using AI agents to handle repetitive scaffolding, allowing you to focus on high-level design and edge cases.
• Write and maintain clean, modular code that is easy for the legal team to understand and for the company to scale by 100x.
• Participate in the full application lifecycle, including rigorous debugging, testing, and deployment to ensure a high-quality user experience.
• Act as an internal consultant for the legal team, observing their workflows and identifying opportunities for automation and simplification.
• Take responsibility for the performance and reliability of backend services and the responsiveness of frontend interfaces.
• Challenge existing assumptions about backend and frontend separation by building complete features independently.
• Contribute to a culture of ownership where complaining about problems is replaced by the immediate action of fixing them.
• Continuously improve the codebase around every feature you ship, refactoring messy modules and adding missing tests.
• Partner with designers to ensure that the implemented user experience matches the intended design and serves the user's needs.
• Ensure that all technical decisions align with the company's mission to disrupt the immigration legal market with transparent and high-touch service.

Requirements

• You are a seasoned engineer with a strong track record of delivering production-grade software in a fast-paced environment.
• You possess a "can-do" attitude that places you in the 99th percentile of self-motivated problem solvers.
• You are deeply customer-obsessed, empathizing with both external users navigating high-stakes immigration cases and internal legal professionals.
• You have the ability to see a problem as work to be solved rather than a reason to complain, quickly moving from diagnosis to implementation.
• You are an AI-native engineer who lives inside modern coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor on a daily basis.
• You have experience building backend systems with robust database schema design and secure API development.
• You are comfortable working across the full stack, capable of writing frontend code that directly interacts with your backend services.
• You thrive in an environment where processes are still being invented and codebases have rough edges.
• You hold yourself to a high standard of code quality, testing, and deployment rigor even when moving at high speed.
• You are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, as this role is based in Palo Alto.

Nice to have

• Experience working in a legal technology or regulated industry environment.
• Background in consulting or working closely with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into software.
• Familiarity with immigration law workflows or legal case management systems.

Practical notes

This is a full-time position based in Palo Alto. The role requires immediate availability and a long-term commitment to building the future of the company. There is no relocation support offered for this role.