Senior Software Engineer, Backend

🕒 March 31

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Atticus

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51 - 200 employees

Legal

Atticus is a law firm dedicated to helping individuals navigate the complexities of obtaining various types of aid, such as disability benefits, workers' compensation, and veterans' benefits, from government and insurance agencies. The firm emphasizes its commitment to cutting through bureaucracy and providing fast, effective, and personalized legal assistance. Atticus offers free advice through a team of in-house, Stanford-trained lawyers and matches clients with vetted law firms who work on a contingency fee basis. With high ratings and numerous positive client testimonials, Atticus is trusted for its expertise and client-focused approach in delivering better outcomes than attempting the process alone.

📋 Description

• Own significant backend systems end-to-end: set and hold a high bar for architecture, design, implementation, and production health. • Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements, not just implement them — we trust your intuitions and want you to have opinions • You’ll bring 0-to-1 product thinking to an area where your work has a tangible impact on our client’s wellbeing. • Mentor engineers on the team, with particular emphasis on backend patterns • Work across the stack as needed, everything from frontend UI work to data systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production software, including meaningful time at a seed-stage startup or as an early member of a new product team at a later-stage company • Experience on a high-performing product team, working closely with strong PMs and designers to ship user-focused solutions • Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs, with a high bar for data modeling and architecture • Deep user empathy — you think carefully about the people using what you build, not just the technical implementation • A track record of mentoring engineers and genuine excitement about helping teammates grow

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered • 15 vacation days and ~20 paid holidays per year, including two weeks at end-of-year • Free OneMedical membership • $600/year internet stipend • $1,000/year education and training reimbursement • Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance • 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA