Matey AI delivers cutting-edge AI solutions to transform legal operations, accelerate investigations, and automate complex reviews with unmatched speed, accuracy, and transparency.

Powered by an advanced knowledge graph and proprietary AI, our platform streamlines navigation of unstructured data, including audio and video, at a fraction of the cost of traditional tools. Key features include AI-driven document categorization, entity recognition, advanced summarization, custom workflows that learn from the user, and automated trial preparation.

With tools like Ask AI Anything, Timeline Builder, and ZeroClick modules for uncovering novel legal theories, Matey AI is redefining investigation, and knowledge management in the legal profession.

We’re seeking a talented Senior Full-stack / Backend Engineer who is passionate about crafting high-performance, scalable systems in Golang. This is an opportunity to join a growing startup, where you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing core backend services, while also contributing to the product frontend for our AI-enabled legal-tech platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and Optimize Backend Systems: Write efficient, clean, and maintainable code primarily in Golang. You’ll build the core backend services, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Architect and Scale Infrastructure: Design and implement backend REST APIs to support core product workflows.
• Enhance Performance at Scale: Utilize high-performance computing techniques and best practices in scalable computing. You’ll pack bits, manage concurrency with CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), and optimize data structures for speed and efficiency.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with cross-functional teams to integrate frontend and backend systems. Your role focuses on backend excellence with the ability to deliver features end-to-end including frontend, with a strong foundation in architecture.
• Innovate with Technology: Continuously learn and experiment with new technologies like Rust and C/C++, bringing new insights to our tech stack.

Who You Are:

• Experienced Full-stack/Backend Engineer: You have extensive experience with Golang and are skilled in high-performance and scalable computing, and have worked on public-facing frontend features in a React environment. You’re comfortable with concepts like CSP and can easily explain why Golang maps are unordered.
• Tech Enthusiast: You bring an engineering mindset that sees software development as both an art and a science. Whether discussing bit-packing optimizations or the trade-offs in hash map implementations, you have a passion for well-crafted systems.
• Independent Problem-Solver: You have a natural drive to dive into challenges, from backend-specific optimization to scalable architecture. You can break down complex problems and provide elegant solutions without heavy external guidance.

Preferred Skills:

• Proficiency, or strong interest, in Golang, ReactJS, and TypeScript (experience with Rust or C/C++ is a plus).
• Solid knowledge of REST APIs and service-oriented patterns
• Track record for delivering end-to-end features from backend to frontend
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithm optimizations, and memory management.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• A remote-first, flexible working environment.
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge AI and contribute to the next generation of legal tech.
• A collaborative, growth-driven team of industry experts.

Our Culture

We pride ourselves on creating an environment where teammates can focus on what they love, what they are great at vs filling calendars with meetings.

Our Philosophy of Software Engineering

First Principles:

1. All software becomes technical debt at some point in the future.

2. The primary goal of Matey Software Culture is to push that future as far away from the present as possible.

3. Software Estimation is a Failed Art. There are no success stories, even with the most meticulous of planners (e.g., the US DoD, etc.)

4. The only way to accurately estimate is to exponentially increase estimated time.

5. The longer the time it takes to deliver a product, the higher the probability that the requirements change.

6. This decreases the accuracy of the estimates exponentially further.

7. The expense (time or money) of a thing will naturally expand to fit (exceed by 20%) the amount of time (or money) budgeted for a given outcome.

8. If you budget $1000 for something, plan to spend $1200 to avoid disappointment.

9. If you budget 3 weeks for something, plan to wait 4 weeks to avoid disappointment.

10. The Features/Cost/Time Triangle remains Undefeated.

11. And the nature of our business is that we've chosen 2 already (Features, Cost).

If you’re an engineer who sees software as a craft and takes pride in building systems that scale seamlessly, we’d love to hear from you!