Software Engineer

The role

You will build the legal tech platform powering AI-native law firms. You will own the development of secure client portals and enterprise-grade systems from architecture to production.

What you will do

• Build infrastructure that measures and improves AI agent performance
• Build tooling and guardrails for secure and reliable company-wide building
• Design database and backend architecture
• Deploy and operate services on cloud infrastructure
• Own end-to-end features across the legal tech platform
• Design production-grade APIs, data models, and permission systems

Required qualifications

• 7+ years building production software, with demonstrated depth in at least one area (backend systems, infra, ML/AI systems, frontend or similar)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical work experience
• Proven track record delivering features that produce measurable business outcomes
• Comfort with relational database design and data modeling
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on a major cloud platform
• Fluent with AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow
• A track record of self-teaching your way into unfamiliar systems and shipping there
• First-principles and systems thinking
• Familiarity with our stack - TypeScript, React, GCP, PostgreSQL

Nice to have

• Deeply engaged with the AI tooling ecosystem
• Experience with eval systems, retrieval, agent orchestration OR ML in production
• Background building client portals, CRMs, or case management systems
• Familiarity with legal tech or other regulated industries

About the company

Manifest OS is an AI-native company on a mission to replace the billable hour and make legal services more accessible for American businesses and consumers. They power the next generation of AI-native law firms with a proprietary technology platform and a centralized back office.