Product Engineer - Frontend Leaning

Alma is an AI-native law firm. We combine AI with an exceptional legal team to deliver fast, transparent, and high-touch legal services at a fraction of the cost and speed of legacy firms. Our first market is immigration law. We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting the $15B market that has never seen an amazing product. We're hiring a Product Engineer — a backend-leaning, AI-native engineer who owns features end-to-end, from database schema to the React component the user clicks on.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product; Own features end-to-end — architect the backend (server logic, databases, APIs), build the frontend that exposes them, and ship to production; Partner with our designer and product team to translate user needs into shipped experiences — not just APIs that "the frontend team will integrate later."; Engage in the entire application lifecycle with a high bar for coding, debugging, testing, and deploying; Operate as a force multiplier with AI tooling — use coding agents to move 5–10x faster than traditional engineers without sacrificing quality, and continuously evolve how our team builds, reviews, and tests software

Requirements

Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment & wear multiple hats — including ones outside your historical comfort zone; 2+ years of backend development experience, with demonstrated willingness (or eagerness) to own frontend work. You don't need to be a CSS wizard on day one, but you need to be the kind of engineer who'll learn React deeply rather than punt it to someone else; Experience developing products built on top of LLMs / ML; Proficient in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, containerization and scaling microservices; Comfortable in (or excited to ramp on) TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling; Experience building products from zero to one; Ability to seek & find the right resources for solving open-ended problems; Daily, hands-on use of modern coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent) — not as autocomplete, but as a primary way of shipping production code; Comfortable building and consuming MCP servers to integrate internal tools, data, and workflows into your dev loop; Strong point of view on AI-assisted code review, automated testing, and how to keep quality high when shipping at agent speed; Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate; BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Nice to have

Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A); Genuine full-stack experience — comfortable across backend, frontend, and infra; Understand data lake / data warehouse; Understand Transformer / Attention / GPU inference; Experience with AWS, Supabase, LaunchDarkly & Betterstack; Built your own MCP servers, custom agents, or internal AI dev tooling; Published, blogged, or shared opinions about modern AI-assisted development workflows

Benefits

Hyper-competitive base salary range based on experience; 100% Health coverage + Vision + Dental; 20 days PTO + 10 Federal Holidays; $250 per month in wellness allowance