Staff Software Engineer
Corto Pty Ltd20 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain end-to-end applications and services for legal document ingestion, extraction, workflow processing, and delivery into practice management systems.
- Design, build, and maintain the frontend user experience.
- Build multimodal LLM pipelines over legal documents using Claude on AWS Bedrock.
- Improve LLM accuracy through schema validation and self-correcting retry loops.
- Instrument pipelines and track error rates, retries, token spend, and latency to guide optimization.
- Develop prompt caching, embedding-based entity matching, exemplar retrieval, and evaluation harnesses for prompt and model changes.
- Partner with legal experts to translate ambiguous requirements into schemas, validators, and acceptance criteria.
- Operate AWS-based systems, including Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, and Bedrock, in a Serverless Framework Python monorepo.
- Shape architecture, drive technical excellence, and solve complex product and engineering problems as a founding engineer.
Requirements
- 8+ years of full-stack software development experience.
- Experience building service-oriented architectures using technologies such as Docker, Lambda, and ECS.
- Strong experience with Python and TypeScript is advantageous, while experience in other languages is considered.
- Demonstrated experience working with LLMs or generative AI systems and understanding their constraints and practical applications.
- Experience with DynamoDB and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience implementing and refining platform monitoring and observability.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, make high-stakes decisions, solve complex problems, and collaborate with technical, product, and legal stakeholders.
- Applicants who meet some but not all requirements are encouraged to apply.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working in Sydney.
- Founding-engineer ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to shape an early-stage AI legal product.
- Work with a small, passionate team backed by an established global legal software business.
- Career and learning opportunities in a fast-paced, scaling technology environment.
- Social events, celebrations, sports teams, and access to sailing and yacht events.
- Additional time off, gym membership, and other well-being perks.
- Access to LEAP Home, a program supporting employees in buying their primary residence.
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