About US: Foundation AI is the only AI Native documents intake automation platform serving the claims and litigation industries. Founded in 2019 by a team of lawyers and data scientists, Foundation AI processes millions of documents each month for hundreds of US law firms, including many of the largest and most respected plaintiff and injury law firms in the country. Find out more at www.foundationai.com.

Job Overview

At Foundation AI, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize high-quality software solutions. This role requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and leadership in driving best practices across the development lifecycle. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable and innovative applications.

Should be an Excellent Problem solver and proficient coder, solid in Data Structures and algorithms. Should have Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools/languages. They should possess good communication skills as well as a positive attitude and a drive to learn.

Key Responsibilities

Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code using the technology stack used across the company and list below.

System Architecture: Design and implement robust, high-performance, and secure software architectures.

Code Reviews & Best Practices: Ensure code quality through peer reviews, unit testing, and adherence to coding standards.

Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing, and influence best practices at a team or organizational level

Agile Development: Work in an Agile/Scrum environment, collaborating with product managers and designers to deliver features efficiently.

CI/CD & DevOps: Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, and automation strategies.

Performance Optimization: Analyze and improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Security & Compliance: Ensure applications follow best security practices and industry compliance standards.

Documentation: Maintain technical documentation for reference and future development

Responsibilities may be tailored based on the candidate’s experience and proficiency.

Skills and Tools

Programming Languages: Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality software applications in at least one primary programming language (as per our tech stack) and familiarity with multiple relevant languages.

Follows and applies best coding practices, design patterns, and clean code principles

Leads technical decision-making related to programming languages, frameworks, and libraries

Writes efficient,



maintainable, and scalable code and maintains complex business logic while ensuring scalability and security with clear documentation

Conducts peer code reviews, ensuring adherence to team standards and identifying areas for improvement

Debugs and optimizes performance bottlenecks, improving application efficiency

Mentors junior and mid-level engineers in language proficiency and advanced coding techniques

Requirements Analysis

Owns technical understanding of requirements for complex features or subsystems.

Collaborates with product managers and stakeholders to refine high-level requirements into actionable development work

Identifies edge cases, dependencies, and risks during requirement analysis.

Evaluates feasibility and suggests alternatives when requirements are unrealistic

Proactively highlights potential trade-offs between scope, performance, and scalability

Mentor’s peers on effective requirement analysis and systematic breakdown into deliverables.

Drives requirement definition for critical, cross-team projects involving multiple domains

SDLC

Leads end-to-end delivery of moderately complex features, ensuring SDLC adherence.

Owns and drives SDLC improvements within the team, focusing on delivery speed and quality.

Influences cross-team SDLC consistency and best practices

Mentor’s junior engineers and teams on SDLC practices, development processes and delivering high-quality software efficiently

Ensures quality through unit, integration, functional testing, regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices

Participates actively in sprint planning, task breakdown, and estimates.

Technical Competency

Develops complex solutions, leads implementation of features.

Designs modular solutions and scalable systems, ensures architectural integrity and mentors on best practices Develops optimized solutions, troubleshoots effectively

Optimizes system performance, mentors on technical design

Applies fundamental concepts, writes efficient and readable code

Unit Testing

Implements end-to-end unit testing, improves test reliability

Establishes testing best practices, mentors on test-driven development

Develops comprehensive test cases, ensures code coverage.

Ensures test coverage across modules, introduces advanced testing practices

Establishes automated testing frameworks, drives test culture

Estimation





Provides accurate estimates for tasks and features.

Contributes to sprint planning, reviews and improves estimation processes

Estimates task complexity independently

Leads estimation efforts for projects

Validates estimates across teams, improves estimation techniques

Problem-solving

Designs solutions for non-trivial problems

Should be able to identify the problems and risks early, proposes mitigation strategies.

Tackles complex technical challenges, suggests alternative approaches.

Diagnoses complex problems across systems and designs solutions for those problems.

Should be able to attempt to solve the problem and document the same.

Develops solutions to systemic performance issues

Critical Thinking

Challenges assumptions, considers scalability and performance.

Evaluates task requirements and potential issues

Evaluates solutions based on cost, complexity, and impact.

Anticipates edge cases and suggests improvements

Leads evaluation of new technologies, balances innovation with stability.

Guides team in selecting optimal technical approaches

Effective Communication

Communicates design choices, task status and challenges to peers. Presents technical solutions to stakeholders, writes detailed documentation.

Documents solutions and participates in design reviews

Leads technical discussions, influences architectural decisions. Influences peers through clear explanations and technical reasoning

Leadership

Provides technical direction within a project.

Mentor’s junior engineers and supports team collaboration.

Influences team-level decision-making and drives process improvements.

Ownership

Completes assigned complex tasks independently, delivers quality output and on time.

Takes ownership of key components or features, ensuring delivery from design to deployment.

Drives end-to-end technical delivery of critical features or modules, ensuring performance, scalability, and quality.

Education & Experience:

A B-Tech degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area. 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with at least 2 years of experience as Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack).

Our Commitment

Foundation AI is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

For any feedback or inquiries, please contact us at [email protected].

Learn more about us at www.foundationai.com.

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