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Blackletter is reinventing legal services from first principles. We pair frontier automation with top-tier lawyers. This allows our firm to deliver elite legal services with fast turnaround, predictable pricing, and a transformed experience for our clients and for the lawyers doing the work. We are serving a growing roster of clients across venture financing, commercial, corporate, and employment, and we are backed by leading venture investors. Our founding team brings experience from frontier AI labs, leading law firms, and some of the top law schools in North America. We are a small team making our earliest hires, with a significant prospect to shape not only our company, but the entire legal profession.

We're looking for a Software Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience to help build our legal AI platform. You'll work across frontend and backend development, turning complex problems into software that is reliable and easy for lawyers to use. Build and improve product features across the frontend and backend.

Design clear data models, reliable APIs, and integration between systems.

Build robust data pipelines and improve the reliability and performance of our software.

Own work from initial problem definition through implementation, testing,



deployment, and iteration.

Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, quality, security, and maintainability.

5+ years of professional experience in software engineering or a closely related role, with meaningful experience shipping full-stack applications.

- Strong frontend skills with modern frameworks such as React, with an eye for usability and polish.
- Strong backend fundamentals, including API design, relational databases, data modeling, and integrations.
- Experience designing maintainable systems and making sound architectural tradeoffs.
- A practical approach to testing, observability, and debugging across the stack.
- Experience working with modern AI-based engineering tools to complete work.

Experience building AI-powered/agentic products.

Python experience and familiarity with cloud infrastructure.

Experience working on complex business software or in an early-stage company

Legal-industry experience isn't required.

Competitive salary plus equity. This role is fully remote within the United States or Canada.

As part of a small engineering team, you'll help shape both the product and the systems behind it, with ownership over work that changes how the we deliver legal services.

📌 Software Development Engineer - Remote (Ottawa)
🏢 Blackletter
📍 Ottawa