Member of Technical Staff

The role

You will build reliable, performant systems and AI-powered functionality using Python/Django, React, and AWS. You will own major features end-to-end and collaborate with product, legal, and strategy teams to turn legal complexity into usable software.

What you will do

• Own major features end-to-end from architecture to production release
• Scale foundational software for the legal team
• Build software and attorney-facing surfaces
• Explore and build new products and services
• Build reliable, performant systems using Python/Django, React, and AWS
• Ship AI-powered functionality
• Collaborate with strategy & operations, product, growth, and legal teams
• Shape engineering culture, standards, and practices

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building reliable, secure software in production
• Strong product sense
• Track record of writing clean, testable, maintainable code
• Attention to observability and performance
• Judgment to turn ambiguous problems into useful software
• Working style grounded in urgency, ownership, and care for users
• Proficiency in Python and React, or ability to pick up new stacks quickly

Nice to have

• Experience with Django, AWS, or OpenAI APIs
• Experience at an early-stage startup where you helped establish engineering standards
• Familiarity with document processing or data-heavy workflows

Before you apply

• Intro conversation about background, motivation, and role
• Technical interview with an engineer
• Onsite visit to NYC office to interview, meet the team, and have lunch

About the company

Finch is building an applied AI platform for consumer law. The platform combines AI agents and legal operators to reduce manual work and expand access to justice.