Job Opportunities API

Lavendo partners with startups and high‑growth companies to help them hire top‑tier sales, GTM, and technical talent. This role is with one of our clients; we’ll share full details about the company and interview process as we get to know you and confirm mutual fit. ABOUT THE COMPANY Our client is an early-stage, San Francisco-based AI startup building the operating system for family law. Their platform automates the most time-intensive parts of legal practice — client intake, financial disclosures, document preparation, case management, and client collaboration — helping family law firms modernize and scale without adding headcount. Founded in 2025, the company is already working with real customers and actively closing a seed round, with $XM signed to date.   THE MISSION To reduce the emotional and financial burden of divorce for millions of families — and empower the legal professionals who serve them — by transforming a fragmented, manual process into a guided, intelligent, AI-driven experience.   THE OPPORTUNITY This is a co-founder seat, not a hire. You're joining at the inflection point: real product, real customers, seed round closing. As the first technical leader, you'll own the full stack — architecture, AI infrastructure, engineering culture, and execution velocity. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team to define how AI reshapes one of the largest, most underserved verticals in legal services. If you've been waiting for a founding opportunity where the market is real, the mission matters, and the equity is worth the bet — this is it.   WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own and define end-to-end technical architecture of the platform - Write and ship production code daily alongside the founding team - Architect and scale AI agent infrastructure for legal workflows — billing, financial layers, document automation, collections, and client collaboration - Build and scale the engineering team from scratch — hiring, mentoring, and establishing culture - Partner with founders on product roadmap, fundraising narrative, and company strategy - Ensure security, compliance, and scalability of a document-heavy, regulated-industry platform - Drive rapid iteration cycles and maintain startup velocity through seed close and beyond   WHAT YOU BRING Must-Haves: - 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in technical leadership - Deeply hands-on — you still write and ship production code regularly - Proven experience building AI-native, workflow-heavy, or document-centric SaaS products - Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Claude APIs) - Strong backend and cloud infrastructure expertise (GCP/AWS, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes) - Experience building engineering teams in a 0→1 environment - Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate - Financially comfortable with a founder salary model during the build phase — equity is the upside Nice-to-Haves: - Exposure to legal tech, compliance-heavy, or regulated-industry products - Experience with document automation platforms - Prior founding experience or early employee (1–50 person company) - Background at Big Tech or high-growth SaaS - Genuine interest in access to justice and modernizing legal services   KEY SUCCESS DRIVERS - Builder-first — you ship fast, don't wait for perfect conditions, and take pride in what you launch - Full ownership — you treat the product and team like they're yours, because they will be - Systems thinker — you design for agentic workflows and automation, not just feature lists - Ambiguity-tolerant — you thrive in 0→1 environments without a defined playbook - Mission-aligned — you're genuinely excited about AI's role in transforming legal services - Speed over perfection — you iterate fast, learn faster, and course-correct in real time   WHY JOIN? C