Lighthouse / Software Engineer

Role

We're looking for software engineers across all experience levels (new grads to senior) to build systems and interfaces that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S.

You might be a good fit if:

• You have strong engineering skills and love building robust, scalable systems.
• You enjoy working across the stack - from backend services to interfaces.
• Have high agency, especially for independent research and problem-solving.
• You've been building great things. For new grads, this could be academic projects, internships, or personal work. For senior engineers, you've been shipping products for 2+ years.

Culture

• Lighthouse is an engineering-led company. We get to pick/veto what we build.
• We're a flat org with no managers (engineering or product).
• We work in bi-weekly sprints, with one meeting on Monday to check in and demos on Friday with everyone at the company. You can plan the rest of the week however you like.
• We spend a considerable chunk of time with users (the legal operations team, or customers) to find and pick what to build. Some projects our team has worked on include:
  • A real-time, collaborative text editor using CRDTs
  • A custom PDF templating and rendering engine
  • A legal "IDE" in React, Typescript
  • Finetuning LLMs
• We ship multiple times a day, with a preference for testing ideas out quickly and polishing over time.

Pay and Benefits

• We sponsor visas, obviously.
• Competitive base and equity, scales with experience.
• Health, dental, vision, 401k.
• Equipment/office stipend.
• Bi-annual team off-sites in cool places.
• In person in SF preferred, hybrid possible.

Lighthouse is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds, communities, and experiences. To apply, email your resume and something you've built to [email protected]. If selected, we'll schedule a call to get to know you better and do a deep technical dive into the work you've chosen to highlight.