Backend Engineer (AI/ Legal Tech)
Saga
WorldwideremotePosted 29 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary package €3,000–€5,000 gross per month
- Minimum 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Autonomy to build and experiment with direct impact on strategy
- Strong ownership mindset required
- Work with LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- Opportunity to contribute to AI-driven legal workflows
Role overview
As a Back-End Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power AI-driven legal workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain back-end services, REST APIs, and data models using TypeScript and Node.js
- Develop document ingestion, processing, semantic search, vector search, and RAG-based systems leveraging LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- Build and operate asynchronous processing pipelines, background workers, and long-running jobs
- Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security across distributed, multi-tenant systems and databases
- Collaborate with engineering, legal, and product teams to deliver customer-facing features and contribute to architectural decisions
- Monitor, maintain, and continuously improve production systems and platform capabilities
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and backend architecture
- Experience designing and implementing solutions within existing production codebases
- Experience operating and supporting backend services in production environments
- A strong ownership mindset with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and continuous improvement
- Clear written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
Benefits
- A salary package between €3,000–€5,000 gross per month (all-inclusive, based on a 40-hour work week), with the amount depending on experience and skill set
- A chance to build the learning foundation for one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies serving clients globally
- Autonomy to build and experiment, with direct impact on company strategy and client success
- An international team that moves fast, thinks clearly, and builds with care
Additional details
- Saga is a legal innovation company on a mission to remove the friction between legal expertise and real-world impact, so lawyers can focus on what matters the most: people, ethics, and impact.
- Founded in Norway and built for the legal profession from day one, we integrate with local legal sources across multiple jurisdictions and are currently available in 12 languages.
- In just 18 months, we've grown to 70+ employees and 5,000+ users across 20+ countries - with market leadership in Norway and the Netherlands, and active expansion across Europe.
- The role is posted on Himalayas platform.