Senior Backend Engineer

Description

About Us

We believe everyone deserves access to the legal care they need. Funded by leading VC firms, Flare (formerly Themis-Tech) leads the way in legal technology.

At Flare, we're transforming how clients and attorneys work together with one goal: to make legal services accessible and transparent. Our B2C platforms embody our vision of intuitive and empowering legal processes. With our comprehensive case management system for attorneys and intuitive case tracking tool for clients, we help attorneys handle cases more efficiently while keeping clients informed at every step of their legal journey. This innovative approach sets us apart, offering a unique opportunity to redefine the legal service experience

Check out helloflare.com for more!

Overview

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with experience in building scalable, secure, and performant web services who is passionate about technology, is capable of breaking down complex problems, and has a strong will to get things done.

You will be part of the team working closely with product and various functions in the company to rapidly iterate on our product and find the best solutions.

Join us as we disrupt the legal services industry, if you want to apply your coding and tech-design skills to make a significant positive impact on people during their key life events.

What you'll do

• Be a part of the vertical team of highly talented developers in a CI/CD environment using cutting edge technologies.
• Deliver high-quality code, using best practices, that can scale and adapt to growing business needs.
• Own your domain, troubleshoot, monitor and solve issues (you build it, you own it).
• Lead design and implementation of the complex systems.
• Constantly learn new technologies and methods and empower other team members.
• Contribute to the back-end guild by working on our cross platform infra projects and mentor others.
• Mentor other team members to elevate your team’s skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience in at least one of the following server-side programming languages: Node, Java, Python, Kotlin, .net or similar.
• Experience creating backend systems that scale by leveraging SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Comfortable building software both directly and through AI-assisted development workflows using coding agents and agentic tooling.
• Ability to guide, orchestrate, and supervise agentic coders across large or complex tasks while maintaining architectural clarity, quality, and reliability.
• Experience with GraphQL - advantage
• Experience Typescript and nodejs - advantage
• Experience building natively on the cloud - using serverless technologies where relevant.

Flare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.