Senior Backend Engineer, Entities
evenupMillbrae, CA
Senior Backend Engineer, Entities
evenupMillbrae, CALead L6
Life as an Engineer at EvenUpJoin EvenUp's AI Platform team, dedicated to making large language models (LLMs) more accessible, scalable, and impactful across the engineering organization. We build leading LLM-powered systems for the legal industry, transforming how complex legal documents are extracted, summarized, and structured for use by our clients every day. This role operates at the intersection of backend engineering, LLM integration, and hands-on experimentation. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, Researchers, and Software Engineers to tackle challenging generative AI problems. Together, we maintain the foundational infrastructure enabling EvenUp's product teams to leverage LLMs safely and efficiently at scale. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers seeking deep technical ownership, backend system design, and work on innovative platforms that create impact across an entire company—while contributing to technology that advances fairness and accessibility within the legal system. This is a hybrid role, three days per week at our SF office.
What You'll Do:
Backend Systems & Infrastructure: Lead the design, development, and optimization of robust backend systems for deploying LLM-based algorithms and services.
End-to-End Ownership: Manage projects through their complete lifecycle—from architecture to deployment, monitoring, and improvement.
Cross-Team Enablement: Work with other engineering teams to understand use cases and deliver scalable platform solutions.
Engineering Excellence: Develop high-quality, maintainable code using a modern tech stack (Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch).Growth & Collaboration: Grow as an engineer working alongside world-class peers on impactful, cutting-edge generative AI projects.
What We Look For:
Extensive experience building frameworks, libraries, and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance.
Proficiency delivering production-ready code, managing infrastructure, and building RESTful APIs to industry standards.
Experience owning and delivering complex technical projects.
Success in startup or high-growth environments valuing speed, collaboration, and ownership.
Proficiency in Python or other languages (Go, Java, C++).Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proven cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and enhance scalable backend systems supporting LLM-driven products and internal platforms.
Own infrastructure and services for reliable deployment, experimentation, and iteration of AI-powered systems.
Collaborate with engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver reusable, scalable solutions.
Influence the technical direction and long-term architecture of EvenUp's AI platform.
Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability.
Drive projects from early design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
Bonus (Nice to Have):Background with AI systems, LLMs, or machine learning infrastructure.
Experience in legal tech or social impact–driven products.
Prior work supporting internal platforms or developer-facing tools.
Benefits & Perks:
As part of our total rewards package, we offer attractive benefits and perks to our employees, including:
- Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family.
- Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness.
- Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability.10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province.
- A home office stipend.401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees.
- Paid parental leave.
- A local in-person meet-up program.
- Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto.(Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees)
- Notice to Candidates:
- To ensure fairness and proper consideration, we do not accept resumes or expressions of interest via email or social media messages. If you're interested in a role, please submit your application directly through our careers page.
- EvenUp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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