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Shaper · San Francisco · Remote

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About Shaper

Precision Cutting Simplified. Backed by SOSV.

About the role

Work across the full platform, automating the admin work that consumes attorneys' time: intake flows, document generation, matter tracking, billing, and client communications Uphold a high bar for code quality, security, and reliability in an environment where what you build touches sensitive client data and regulated legal work Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong full-stack engineer who writes clean, maintainable code and gets excited about connecting disparate systems through APIs, webhooks, and data synchronization
  • Scrappy and resourceful: you ship MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate fast. Done is better than perfect. You thrive in ambiguity without detailed specs: talking to users, figuring out what they need, and building it
  • Able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and translate their needs into working code
  • Energized by the idea of giving ordinary people access to exceptional legal counsel and excited to get in on the ground floor of something significant
  • Great team player who upholds and contributes to a positive and collaborative culture
  • Nice to have: experience with AI/LLM applications, RAG systems, or semantic search, background in law or a regulated industry, previous startup experience
More about this role

Jay is a national, attorney-centric, AI-enabled law firm built for the middle of the legal market: the tens of millions of households with real legal needs and the means to pay. Today their options are elite firms built for someone else or form companies that offer documents without counsel. Attorneys are the heart of what we do. AI is how we deliver exceptional service at a price people can afford, and how we free attorneys from operational work that should have been automated years ago. We're starting with trusts and estates, but we won't stop there.

Behind the firm is Jay OS, the platform we're building to run modern legal practice: intake, drafting, review, scheduling, billing, and client communication. Our engineers work side by side with the attorneys who use what they ship every day.

The role

As one of the first Engineering hires, you will build the first version of the product, a platform that runs the core operations of a modern law firm. You'll create the tooling that makes a five-person attorney team operate like fifty: intake automation, scheduling, billing, ongoing client communications, document management, and the AI layer threaded through all of it. We're...

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