Staff Software Engineer
Corto Pty Ltd2 months 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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About Corto Pty Ltd
Corto builds AI-powered legal software for law firms, combining practice management, legal research and drafting assistance, workflow automation, and integrated accounting. The cloud-based platform is sold on a subscription basis to legal practitioners and firms, supporting matter management, billing, and document automation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Sydney, Corto is part of ATI Global, an international legaltech group.