Kcura

Senior Software Engineer - AI Surfaces

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2 months ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USASenior

Base Salary

$126k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship production agents and agent capabilities end to end, including tools, prompts, context assembly, structured outputs, guardrails, services, and frontend experiences.
  • Build and maintain evaluations, and instrument production systems to measure acceptance, latency, and cost per agent.
  • Contribute to shared infrastructure including the agent harness, context and retrieval pipeline, model routing, and observability stack.
  • Debug nondeterministic failures, retrieval misses, tool-call errors, and model regressions.
  • Participate in design reviews, write technical documentation, review code, and mentor Advanced engineers.
  • Work with product, design, and customers to define effective work products for legal tasks.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building production software in service-oriented, continuously deployed teams.
  • Experience shipping LLM-powered features to real users through a launched project, not only experiments.
  • Direct experience building full-stack web and agentic applications, including provider APIs, function calling, structured outputs, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation fundamentals.
  • Hands-on cloud service development with AWS, Azure, or an equivalent platform, including containers, CI/CD, and production debugging.
  • Fluency in TypeScript or Python and ability to work across React, Node or Python services, and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience writing and maintaining regression-catching tests.
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, concurrency, performance, and reliability.
  • Strong written and spoken English and ability to explain technical decisions to non-engineers.
  • Demonstrated commitment to simplicity through open-source work, side projects, or professional experience.

Benefits

  • Remote within the United States or based in Seattle or Chicago; the posting is listed as hybrid/remote.
  • Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, and equity program.
  • Benefits, discretionary time off, and parental leave.
  • Opportunity to work on cloud-native legal technology, gain end-to-end ownership, and collaborate in an inclusive knowledge-sharing culture.
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