{"id":4284869,"url":"https://alion.io/job/expert-institute-senior-backend-software-engineer-case-intelligence","title":"Senior Backend Software Engineer, Case Intelligence","company":{"id":697394,"name":"Expert Institute","domain":"expertinstitute.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/expertinstitute","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EventBridge","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Fargate","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Step Functions","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Gemini","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"Label Studio","optional":false},{"name":"Langfuse","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Logstash","optional":false},{"name":"Looker","optional":false},{"name":"Nest.JS","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"OCR","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"OpenSearch","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Pydantic","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Reranking","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Structured Outputs","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Node JS","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T20:55:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T11:28:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At Expert Institute, we are pioneers and disruptors in the legal space. Simply put, we pair attorneys with the perfect expert witnesses to win high-stakes cases and be the hero for the people, families, and businesses they serve.\nIn our history, we have had a helping hand in billions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for our clients. We have helped all kinds of litigators work on all types of cases including many national headline cases involving well-known brands like Google, Uber, Microsoft, Facebook, the NFL, the MLB and many others.\nWe have an entrepreneurial mindset the same as our clients which means our business model is calculated, fast-paced, and highly efficient. Once an attorney speaks with us, we immediately help them consult with industry specialists and key opinion leaders to educate and inform them while navigating through any theory of liability, causation, and damages.\n The Role\nExpert Institute is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Case Intelligence team. The team builds Radar and MRR, turning court records, expert reports, depositions, and medical records into information attorneys can use.\nThis is a backend and data engineering role with a strong applied AI component. You will build document-processing pipelines, retrieval systems, and LLM workflows that run in production at scale. The work calls for sound judgment about output quality, reliability, privacy, and cost.\nYou will work directly with Product, our evaluation team, and engineering leadership. You should be comfortable taking an ambiguous problem from investigation through deployment and production support.\nWhat You’ll Work On\nEvent-driven pipelines behind Radar and MRR\nPDF parsing, OCR, classification, and entity extraction\nLLM inference, retrieval, and evaluation\nCourt-record and third-party data integrations\nData quality, entity resolution, and deduplication\nProcessing cost, performance, and production reliability\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and operate pipelines using AWS services such as SQS, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, S3, and EventBridge.\nTurn large volumes of unstructured documents into reliable, structured data.\nBuild production LLM workflows using Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, and Gemini, including batch inference, structured outputs, model routing, and long-document processing.\nDevelop retrieval and ML components using embeddings, OpenSearch, reranking, classifiers, and entity resolution where they improve results.\nWork with our evaluation team to turn QA findings into measurable improvements in output quality.\nModel and maintain data in PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, and S3/Athena.\nMake pipelines resilient to bad inputs and unreliable upstream systems through retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and backfills.\nOwn the infrastructure, deployment, access controls, and observability for the systems you build.\nReduce processing time and cost without compromising quality.\nHandle sensitive medical and legal information responsibly, and keep technical documentation current.\nHow We Define This Level\nA Senior Software Engineer owns complex projects from technical design through production operation. You are expected to identify failure modes, make practical tradeoffs, improve quality over time, and communicate risks early. You will contribute to the team’s technical direction and help other engineers make better decisions.\nSuccess Looks Like\nRadar and MRR process documents reliably, with failures visible and recoverable.\nOutput quality improves through measured changes informed by evaluation and QA.\nProcessing costs and latency improve as volume grows.\nThe systems you build are secure, observable, and supportable in production.\nProduct and business partners understand what the systems can do, where they fall short, and what you are improving next.\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement\nOur company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.\n What We’re Looking For\nAt least five years of 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