August · 14 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$190K/yr - $315K/yr
5+ years expAugust is building AI designed for law firms, focusing on midsized firms to enhance efficiency and client service. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and scale production-grade agents that perform legal tasks with expert-level reasoning, collaborating closely with founders and legal experts.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformInformation TechnologyLegalSoftware
Responsibilities
Build and deploy agentic systems using Python to automate, evaluate, and scale end-to-end legal workflows
Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our customers and legal team
Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building products, either in grad school or in production environments; strong Python skills
Demonstrated ability to ship quickly especially in early-stage environments while building scalable enterprise software
Preferred
Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Benefits
Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.
Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.
Exceptional Early Traction: >4x revenue growth in the past four months.
Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions.
Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.
Strategic investors: Backed by NEA and exceptional seed investors Pear VC and Afore Capital, August has the capital to execute.
Company
August
August is a configurable legal AI platform designed specifically for law firms and legal professionals.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$7MKey Investors
New Enterprise Associates,Pear VC
2025-08-05Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Rutvik Rau
CEO & Co-Founder
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