About the role

Role Overview

Join Filevine as a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) to design and evolve the company’s AI orchestration layer. You’ll deliver backend features end-to-end in a fast-moving production environment.

Key Missions

Contribute to the design and evolution of the AI orchestration layer, building durable, fault-tolerant agentic workflows.
Deliver features across the full lifecycle: from design and prototyping to implementation and deployment.
Maintain engineering excellence through deep code reviews and comprehensive testing.
Follow engineering standards, including the uv monorepo workspace.
Mentor mid-level and junior engineers.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

6+ years of professional backend development.
Expert mastery of Python (3.12+), including async/await.
Strong experience with FastAPI and Pydantic v2.
Proven production experience building complex distributed systems, ideally including durable workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal or equivalent), plus message queues or event-driven architectures.
Exceptional communication skills, able to explain agentic design decisions, reliability trade-offs, and LLM behavior.

Nice to Have / Preferred

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
Growth mindset and strong collaborative approach with genuine passion for mentoring.

About Filevine

Filevine provides software platforms for organizations, with a focus on workflow-driven solutions. The company builds products that support complex, production-grade processes, and it appears to be working on an AI orchestration layer for durable, reliable agent workflows.