Senior/Staff Engineer (Backend / Fullstack)

EvenUp is a venture-backed generative AI startup that ensures injury victims are awarded the full value of their claims, expanding the $100B+ in awards granted to injury victims every year.

Every year, the legal system has made it difficult for millions of ordinary people to seek justice, especially for folks without means or who come from underrepresented backgrounds.

Our vision is to help these injury victims get the justice they deserve, irrespective of their income, demographics, or the quality of their legal representation.

Do not wait to apply after reading this description a high application volume is expected for this opportunity.

In the past year, our engineering and data science team grew to 40 team members and we rolled out infrastructure updates, new products, and updates to existing workflows - combining data, ML frontend and backend work.

The next 12 months are very exciting for us; we expect the technical team to triple as we deliver on a roadmap to handle 10x our current volume.

Now is the time to get on the ground floor as we scale!

What you’ll do :

• Build impactful technology : You will build first-of-a-kind technology that will transform an analog industry to improve the lives of millions of injury victims that got their lives turned upside down at no fault of their own.
• Have immediate impact in a small and tightly-knit team : be a key part of building the foundational blocks of our software and the team culture.

Start shipping production code in less than two weeks!

• Be a core part of our engineering team : Build and deploy and work on our core software product, tackling hard problems, exploring and delivering solutions while working with key people across the organization.
• Work with a world-class team : Our team has deep expertise in technology, machine learning, law, and finance, combining experiences from careers at Google, Uber, Waymo, Quora, Vimeo, Blizzard, and more.
• Learn new technologies from the best : Our team emphasizes a culture of continual learning and you will have opportunities to work on projects in machine learning, data engineering, back-end, front-end, and DevOps.
• Work with our tech-stack : Python, Typescript, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch

What we look for :

• 9+ years of backend engineering experience working with relational databases and / or other database technologies.
• Several years of industry experience building high-quality software, shipping production-ready code and infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas or issues in easy-to-understand and actionable terms.
• Learn quickly and seek opportunities to work cross-functionally (including data engineering, DevOps ) and with a diverse group of people.
• Experience owning a project from start to finish and loves to drive a project across the finish line.
• Ability to function with high levels of ambiguity and blaze new trails to seek innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and upleveling teammates.
• Interest in making the world a fairer place (we don’t get paid unless we’re helping injured victims and / or their attorneys).
• Kubernetes experience is a plus!

About EvenUp

EvenUp is a venture-backed generative AI startup that ensures injury victims are awarded the full value of their claims, expanding the $100B+ in awards granted to injury victims every year.

Every year, the legal system has made it difficult for millions of ordinary people to seek justice, especially for folks without means or who come from underrepresented backgrounds.

Our vision is to help these injury victims get the justice they deserve, irrespective of their income, demographics, or the quality of their legal representation.

EvenUp operates across all types of injury cases, from police brutality and child abuse to California wildfires and motor vehicle accidents.

Our ML-driven software empowers attorneys to accurately assess the value of these cases by doing a core part of their workflow (legal drafting), enabling them to secure larger settlements in record time.

We are one of the fastest growing startups ($0 to $10M in ARR in