Senior Software Engineer (AI Litigation Workflow)

I have a long term contract opportunity for one of our leading financial services organizations in Midtown. This is 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
As a Software Engineer, you would need to have 3-4 years Java/Spring and Python, as well as backend SQL/Postgres or Oracle skills.

In addition to developing AI-powered workflows, the team builds systems that enrich legal documents, particularly court opinions. Examples of these enrichments include:

• Identifying and analyzing citations to cases, statutes, regulations, and other authorities
• Determining the treatment and context of cited authorities
• Measuring the strength and depth of a court's discussion of statutes and legal issues
• Identifying important facts, legal principles, holdings, and procedural information
• Producing structured metadata that improves search, retrieval, analytics, and downstream AI applications

• Design, develop, test, and maintain reliable software applications and services
• Integrate applications with search platforms, databases.
• Contribute to the design of scalable, fault-tolerant, and maintainable distributed systems
• Write clean, well-tested, and production-ready code
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture decisions
• Investigate production issues and improve system monitoring, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with engineers across different departments to reuse common platforms, services, and engineering standards

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience usingJava and Spring
• At least 3 years of experience working with relational databases, includingPostgreSQL or Oracle
• Experience writing SQL and designing or working with relational data models
• Experience building and supporting production software applications or services
• Understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming
• Experience developing APIs or integrating with service-based architectures
• Familiarity with automated testing, debugging, and production support
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• A Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent professional experience

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, code review, debugging, and documentation.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience developing Python-based data processing, machine learning, or AI applications
• Experience working with search engines, document retrieval systems, or content-processing pipelines
• Experience designing scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems
• Experience building systems that process large volumes of structured or unstructured documents
• A strong commitment to automated testing, code quality, and operational excellence