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Legal Tech
FoundingCTO–AILegalTech
“Founding CTO – AI Legal Tech at client. Skills: AI, Cloud infrastructure, Backend, Engineering leadership. Own and define end-to-end technical architecture. Write and ship production code daily”
What You'll Achieve.
Automate the most time-intensive parts of legal practice; Help family law firms modernize and scale without adding headcount; Reduce the emotional and financial burden of divorce; Empower the legal professionals; Scale AI agent infrastructure; Maintain startup velocity through seed close and beyond
Industry & Context.
Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate, In-Person Co-Founder Day (half day, SF)
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of software engineering experience, 3–5+ years in technical leadership, Deeply hands-on — you still write and ship production code regularly, Proven experience building AI-native, workflow-heavy, or document-centric SaaS products, Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Claude APIs), backend and cloud infrastructure expertise (GCP/AWS, Python, Node. js, Kubernetes), Experience building engineering teams in a 0→1 environment, Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate, Financially comfortable with a founder salary model during the build phase — equity is the upside
Nice to Have
Exposure to legal tech, compliance-heavy, or regulated-industry products, Experience with document automation platforms, Prior founding experience or early employee (1–50 person company), Background at Big Tech or high-growth SaaS, Genuine interest in access to justice and modernizing legal services
What You'll Do.
Own and define end-to-end technical architecture
Write and ship production code daily
Architect and scale AI agent infrastructure
Build and scale engineering team
Partner with founders on product roadmap
Drive rapid iteration cycles
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team; Partner with founders on product roadmap, fundraising narrative, and company strategy
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