Alma
legal tech
ProductEngineer
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“Product Engineer at Alma. Skills: Product Engineer, backend-leaning, AI-native engineer, owns features end-to-end, database schema to the React component, work directly with the founding team and early customers, ship a world-class AI-powered product, scale our platform by 100x, shipping a feature end-to-end, modern AI tooling, AI-native engineer, build with AI, living inside modern coding harnesses, wiring up MCP servers, treating agents as a core part of how you ship, spin up an agent to scaff”
What You'll Achieve.
build a world-class AI-powered product; scale our platform by 100x; ship to production; translate user needs into shipped experiences; move 5–10x faster than traditional engineers without sacrificing quality
Industry & Context.
lots of unsolved challenges; solves big problems; Ability to seek & find the right resources for solving open-ended problems; instinct, when they hit a messy module or a missing test or a confusing abstraction, is "I'll fix it"
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of backend development experience, demonstrated willingness (or eagerness) to own frontend work, Experience developing products built on top of LLMs / ML, Proficient in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, containerization and scaling microservices, Comfortable in (or excited to ramp on) TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling, Experience building products from zero to one, Ability to seek & find the right resources for solving open-ended problems, Daily, hands-on use of modern coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent) — not as autocomplete, but as a primary way of shipping production code, Comfortable building and consuming MCP servers to integrate internal tools, data, and workflows into your dev loop, point of view on AI-assisted code review, automated testing, and how to keep quality high when shipping at agent speed, Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate
Nice to Have
Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A), Genuine full-stack experience — comfortable across backend, frontend, and infra, Understand data lake / data warehouse, Understand Transformer / Attention / GPU inference, Experience with AWS, Supabase, LaunchDarkly & Betterstack, Built your own MCP servers, custom agents, or internal AI dev tooling, Published, blogged, or shared opinions about modern AI-assisted development workflows
What You'll Do.
Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product
Own features end-to-end — architect the backend (server logic
build the frontend that exposes them
and ship to production
Partner with our designer and product team to translate user needs into shipped experiences — not just APIs that "the frontend team will integrate later"
Engage in the entire application lifecycle with a high bar for coding
Operate as a force multiplier with AI tooling — use coding agents to move 5–10x faster than traditional engineers without sacrificing quality
and continuously evolve how our team builds
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with the founding team and early customers; Partner with our designer and product team
Full Job Description
We're seeking an exceptional and ambitious Product Engineer who thrives in a high-intensity environment with lots of unsolved challenges and wants to build something revolutionary. Our team moves fast, works hard and solves big problems. We're focused on rapid execution and creating outsized impact in the legal space. 👋🏼 HELLO! WE’RE ALMA Backed by leading VCs such as Bling Capital https://www.blingcap.com/, Forerunner https://www.forerunnerventures.com/, Village Global https://www.villageglobal.vc/, NFX https://www.nfx.com/, Conviction https://www.linkedin.com/company/convictionvc/, MVP Ventures https://www.mvp-vc.com/, NEA https://www.nea.com/ and Silkroad Innovation Hub https://silkroadinnovationhub.com/, Alma is on a mission to forever change immigration for the better! We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting $10b market that has never seen an amazing product! 🧠 FOUNDING TEAM The founding team has an extensive background in the legal industry, consulting, and building ML platforms. - Shuo https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuochen05/ - CTO & Cofounder: Shuo built the ML Platform (Michelangelo) at Uber for 5+ years after which he was the head of AI & ML team at a SupportLogic (a series B startup using predictive & generative AI for customer support). - Aizada https://www.linkedin.com/in/aizadamarat/ - CEO & Cofounder: Aizada is a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney with 7+ years of experience including working at a top law firm such as Cooley and an ex-McKinsey consultant. 🔍 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're hiring a Product Engineer — a backend-leaning, AI-native engineer who owns features end-to-end, from database schema to the React component the user clicks on. You'll work directly with the founding team and early customers to ship a world-class AI-powered product, and help us scale our platform by 100x. We need you to be in the 99th percentile of having a "can-do" attitude. You need to be deep
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