Backend Software Engineer

EvenUp is on a mission to support injury law firms across America in providing a consistent and high standard of representation, ensuring that every injury victim who seeks legal assistance can expect a fair resolution. We’ve helped thousands of victims get fair compensation by empowering their representation with best-in-class insights, automation, and document creation.

Demands is EvenUp’s flagship product responsible for propelling EvenUp to become one of the most successful vertical AI companies in the world. As a Backend Software Engineer on EvenUp’s Demands Product Engineering Team, you’ll work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to scope and implement solutions that increase the speed, velocity, and quality of the products that deliver value to our customers. We are looking for individuals who have worked across the stack on incredible user-centric products and who are passionate about building the future of generative AI products. As part of our team, you’ll drive future innovations that will significantly impact the business in support of EvenUp’s mission to ensure that personal injury victims receive the rightful compensation they deserve.

Initiatives could include but are not limited to:

• Enhancing the capabilities of EvenUp’s AI-native and human-in-the-loop workflows

• Implementing and integrating LLM-based solutions that immediately improve outcomes for our customers

• Developing the systems to evaluate the efficacy and quality of key customer deliverables

• Contributing to the evolution of EvenUp’s flagship Demands product at the bleeding edge of the present-day AI revolution

In doing so, you’ll supercharge the engine that powers EvenUp, collaborating with leaders across the company to execute on mission-critical opportunities. You’ll uphold the high-quality bar on our team, and directly impact EvenUp’s success by applying data-driven insights alongside our foundational commitment to crafting exceptional customer-driven experiences.

This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week spent collaborating with the team in the office. We are open to applicants located in either the Greater Toronto Area or in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What you’ll do:

• Rapidly prototype and deliver innovative, zero-to-one solutions by developing and integrating AI-powered features into end-to-end AI workflows, ensuring a balance between cutting-edge technology and practical implementation to meet customer needs.

• Collaborate with our founders, product managers, and designers to brainstorm, scope, and realize new features.

• Establish best practices for architecture, coding, and delivery while scoping, leading, and building user-facing experiences, services, APIs, and systems.

• Deliver secure, compliant code for sensitive data, ensuring quality through testing, reviews, and standards adherence while monitoring, debugging, and optimizing performance across the stack.

• Mentor team members by providing feedback on code and design, while actively contributing to team culture, retrospectives, and continuous improvement efforts.

• Handle on-call responsibilities to resolve issues and reduce toil, while documenting processes to ensure alignment with company and industry standards.

What we look for:

• Extensive experience in building frameworks, libraries, and distributed systems with an eye for reliability, observability, and performance.

• Proven proficiency in software development, with hands-on experience in Python or other programming languages such as Go, Java, Node.js or C++.

• Ability to craft and deliver high-quality software solutions, including production-ready code, RESTful APIs, and managing infrastructure to industry standards.

• Track record of successfully delivering complex projects with clear, structured thinking and leadership from concept to deployment.

• Experience working in dynamic, fast-paced environments, such as startups, thriving in collaborative, growth-oriented settings.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams from diverse backgrounds.

• Strong ownership and personal accountability which are driven by your problem-solving skills, creativity, and initiative in driving projects to completion.

• Bonus: Experience in AI, legal tech, or social impact projects.

Benefits & Perks:

Our goal is to empower every team member to contribute to our mission of fostering a more just world, regardless of their role, location, or level of experience. To that end, we offer:

• Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family

• Flexible paid time off and 10+ holidays per year

• A stipend to upgrade your home office for fully-remote roles

• 401k for US-based employees

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees

About EvenUp:

EvenUp is on a mission to level the playing field in personal injury cases. EvenUp applies machine learning and its AI model known as Piai™ to reduce manual effort and maximize case outcomes across the personal injury value chain. Combining in-house human legal expertise with proprietary AI and software to analyze records. The Claims Intelligence Platform™ provides rich business insights, AI workflow automation, and best-in-class document creation for injury law firms. EvenUp is the trusted partner of personal injury law firms. Backed by top VCs, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), SignalFire, NFX, DCM, and more, EvenUp’s customers range from top trial attorneys to America’s largest personal injury firms. EvenUp was founded in late 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at www.evenuplaw.com.

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.