Senior Backend Engineer

requirements as listed below. We bring that data into a clean, live case timeline that millions of immigrants — and the law firms serving them — depend on. With the recent launch of Lawfully Intelligence, we've opened that data layer up to the immigration attorneys who move the system every day, and they've embraced it fast. Behind it is a real distributed system: ~25 Go services, a high-throughput Kafka pipeline, an EKS platform, and a legacy monolith we're actively dismantling. We're looking for the person to own its technical direction and reliability — and grow the team that runs it. This is a high-impact engineering role with meaningful equity, real ownership, and direct influence on how Lawfully scales.

What you'll do

Set the architecture. Own how our backend fleet and data pipeline fit together, and where they go next. Run the platform. Our EKS infrastructure, deploy pipeline, Kafka, and databases are yours to make fast, safe, and boring. Kill the hard problems. Single points of failure, secrets baked into images, infra that drifts out of version control — we know our debt, and you'll lead the paydown. Land the migration. Strangle the legacy monolith into modern Go services without users ever noticing. Build the team. Mentor engineers, set the review bar, and run calm, sharp incident responses.