Engineer Position

Overview

Confido Legal is a fast-growing fintech platform that helps legal technology companies and law firms embed payments and finance features into their products and financial workflows.

By adding financial flexibility at the point of lawyer-client transactions, we expand the addressable market for our law firm clients and increase access to the justice system. We are looking for a Sr. software engineer to join us on this mission.

The ideal candidate will have a strong sense of responsibility and the ability to independently solve problems, find solutions, and build scalable systems.

We are building a state-of-the-art GraphQL API that provides developers with a central point of access to the financial products they need to deliver embedded payments and finance features for their law firm clients. We are developers building for developers.

We are assembling a small team of highly skilled and efficient engineers. Engineers are paired into teams of two, with each team responsible for an independent service. Teams are free to build, test, and deploy autonomously. You will have significant responsibility, and your work will directly impact the company's success.

We put thoughtful effort into the architecture and design of our code. We prioritize writing code that is reliable, maintainable, and easy to read.

Role Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, debug, and maintain software.
Lead architecture and product design discussions.
Write clean, readable, maintainable, and testable code.
Translate business requirements into technical architecture and product specifications.
Collaborate with the marketing and sales teams to align technical development with business needs.
Build automated end-to-end tests.
Conduct code reviews.
Develop a high degree of empathy for our clients and incorporate that perspective into the code.
Actively participate in company strategic planning.

Technology Stack

TypeScript — primary language across our application stack
React — frontend applications are built with React and Next.js
AWS — all infrastructure is deployed on AWS and configured with IaC
Docker — services are containerized with Docker for consistency and scalability
GraphQL — our external-facing API is GraphQL
CI/CD pipelines — dependency and vulnerability monitoring integrated into deployment workflows
Figma — used for UI/UX design; engineers actively participate in this work

An ideal candidate is an expert in three or more of the above (Typescript required) and has 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.

Our Team

Joining Confido Legal means helping shape a growing team and developing leadership skills. We offer:

$175,000 – $225,000 starting base salary (stock options also awarded; not included in this figure)
Fully remote work with two onsite meetings per year
Open PTO
Fully paid medical, vision, and dental insurance

Our core principles guide how we operate every day:

We believe in purpose over profit
We believe every team member is an owner
We believe we thrive in a culture of mutual support
We believe in building for the long term

Application

Thank you for your interest in joining Confido Legal. To apply for the Engineer role, please complete the form below. Please ensure that your cover letter addresses the following five questions:

1. Why are you interested in working with Confido Legal?
2. What is your ideal work environment?
3. What are your strengths?
4. If we were to ask your past managers about you, what feedback would they have?
5. Where do you see yourself in five years?