Staff Software Engineer, Product

About Norm Ai Norm Ai, the agentic law company, has a client base with a combined $30 trillion in assets under management. Norm Ai pioneered Legal Engineering, the process that empowers lawyers to build and supervise domain-specific AI agents with Norm’s proprietary suite of no-code software tools. Norm Ai technology is deployed inside many of the largest and most consequential institutions in the world. Norm Ai is also the technology behind Norm Law, LLP, a separate but affiliated AI-native law firm built for the era of agentic AI. Norm Law’s attorneys advise leading institutions across private funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, registered funds, and financial regulation, using the same legal intelligence platform that powers Norm Ai’s products. AI Fluency: Norm Ai prefers all team members to be fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their day-to-day work to support thinking, creation, and problem-solving. They use it to improve the quality and speed of their work and to continuously refine how work gets done end-to-end. Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage throughout the interview process, including concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. We look for practical, hands-on experience, not theoretical familiarity. THIS ROLE We are hiring Software Engineers at Staff levels. As a Software Engineer, Full Stack at Norm Ai, you'll work across all aspects of our code stack, building intuitive tools transforming legal workflows. You'll partner closely with design, client engagement, other engineering teams, and end users to bring new product ideas to life. WHAT YOU'LL DO Software Engineers at Norm typically align to one of two areas. Product engineers own the associate, partner, and operations-facing surfaces of our enterprise application: the workflows, UI, and AI-powered features that make the product indispensable to the Norm Law teams. Backend engineers focus on the shared components and systems leveraged by our product engineering teams, building highly scalable, reusable, and fault-tolerant services, including document processing, AI orchestration, and integration pipelines, in close collaboration with our AIRE and Platform teams. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR CORE QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science or an equivalent field, or equivalent practical experience - 6+ years of experience writing application-layer Python for production use - 2+ years of experience writing React + TypeScript, or similar, for production use - Experience working with a Postgres database or similar - Experience writing APIs using a framework such as FastAPI or similar for production use - Interest or experience working with a complex AI-driven product (e.g. streamed outputs, dynamic agentic site navigation) - Interest or experience working with PDFs, Excel, or file-driven products NICE TO HAVES - Experience dealing with database scaling problems - Experience building highly configured or abstracted UIs tied to editable schemas stored in a database - Experience working with AWS infrastructure or similar - Experience working at an early-stage startup - Excited to work on product and iterate with customers COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS Staff Engineer Base Salary: $240,000 to $280,000 per year The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Equity: Included Benefits: 401(k) with employer match, health, dental, vision coverage, unlimited paid time off, free lunch in office daily, employee referral bonus program Relocation: Financial support to ease your move to New York City, designed to make the transition smooth and stress-free.   WORK LOCATION Location: New York City Work model: Hybrid In-office expectation: 3–4 days per week To learn more about Norm Ai, visit our website https://www.norm.ai.