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title: 'Senior Full Stack Engineer at General Legal'
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# Senior Full Stack Engineer at General Legal 

- **Company:** General Legal 
- **Location:** New York New York United States San Francisco California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generallegalllp/jobs/4386240009

## Job description

The Opportunity

The legal industry is broken — lawyers bill by the hour, charge enormous sums, and take forever to respond. This means that a lot of people who need legal advice don't get it. We're using AI to solve this problem. AI takes the first pass at everything our lawyers do, so that the lawyers can focus on human interaction. We're starting with negotiating commercial contracts, and will expand quickly from there to other use cases within legal. We're reimagining what a contract can be in the AI age. We're a veteran team, with one successful exit already, who've been doing deep learning in the legal space since long before ChatGPT.

Description

General Legal is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer who has the passion and drive to move fast, learn new things, and drive ambitious projects through to completion. You'll own major parts of our product end-to-end, from figuring out what we should build through architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration with users.

This is a unique opportunity to join us at the ground level and play a foundational role in developing a platform that will set new standards for the legal industry. We are looking for someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, cares deeply about product quality, and wants significant ownership rather than narrowly scoped engineering work.

There will be opportunity to grow your role as the company grows, either as a senior independent contributor or as an engineering leader.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build AI-enabled products and features end-to-end using an AI-enabled development process
- Own major technical projects from initial idea through production deployment
- Work across the frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure as needed
- Build intuitive interfaces for complex AI-powered workflows
- Work closely with lawyers and other users to rapidly understand problems and ship solutions
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions that allow us to move quickly without sacrificing reliability
- Be proactive and come up with ideas on how to build our products better
- Help establish engineering practices and technical standards as the team grows

## Requirements

- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience building and shipping production web applications
- Ability to work effectively across the frontend and backend
- Strong product judgment and ability to operate with significant autonomy
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
- Eligible to work in the US, and able to work in-office a minimum of 3 days a week in our SF or NY office locations.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience building AI-native products or working extensively with LLM APIs
- Experience at an early-stage startup
- Experience owning products or systems from zero to one
- Experience with agentic systems, real-time applications, document processing, or collaborative software
- Experience in the legal tech space

## Compensation & Benefits

$190,000 - $250,000 base, calibrated to experience and location

Health, dental, vision; unlimited PTO; wellness stipend & more…

## About General Legal 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: General Legal is an AI-native law firm that delivers high-quality commercial contract work and other legal services for growth-stage startups at flat fees with turnaround times measured in hours.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup, Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US (dual presence)
- **Founded**: 2026
- **Founders**: Ryan Walker (CEO & Co-Founder), Javed Qadrud-Din (CTO & Co-Founder), J.P. Mohler (CPO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Services (AI-native law firm)
- **Target customers**: Growth-stage startups (venture-backed or angel-funded operating companies); B2B
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We’re building the AI-native law firm, pairing top-tier attorneys with technology that makes legal work faster, clearer, and more affordable.” [general.legal](https://general.legal/about)

## Products & Services
- **Simple Contract Review** ($250 flat): Light-touch review of low-risk agreements (NDAs, small vendor contracts). Redlined, explained, ready to sign.
- **Standard Contract Review** ($500 flat): Deeper review and negotiation guidance for MSAs, SaaS subscriptions, and key customer/supplier agreements.
- **Full Negotiation** ($1,000 flat): End-to-end negotiation with limitless turns, calls with the other side, and final sign-ready document.
- **Drafting** ($2,000 flat): Draft a new agreement from scratch, built around the client’s business and terms.
- **Employment**: Offer letters, contractor agreements, employment policies.
- **Incorporation**: Formation, founder docs, cap-table basics.
- **Fundraising**: SAFEs, side letters, financing documents.
- All services include a 30-minute call with the assigned attorney. No retainer, no minimums, cancel anytime. [get.general.legal](https://get.general.legal/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (early-stage startup)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not disclosed (YC-backed, Winter 2026). Annual Revenue – Not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2026 batch). Primary Partner: Ankit Gupta.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Team size: 25 (as of YC profile)
  - Over 250 growth-stage companies represented since private preview
  - 95% client satisfaction
  - Median contract turnaround in hours (not weeks)
  - Hiring across multiple roles (engineering, legal, product marketing, executive assistant)
  - Offering free first contract review for any company until Demo Day

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native workflows**: Proprietary AI tools integrated into attorney workflows, enabling 10× efficiency vs. traditional firms. Automates routine tasks so attorneys focus on substantive risk and tailored advice.
- **Speed**: Guaranteed contract turns within 3 hours; typical turnarounds in 1 hour.
- **Pricing transparency**: Flat, all-inclusive fees with no hourly billing or surprise invoices.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Built AI products for lawyers at Casetext (YC S13, acquired by Thomson Reuters). Top-tier legal backgrounds (Harvard Law, Fenwick & West, Cooley).

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI-native law firm model to serve more growth-stage startups; expanding service lines (commercial, employment, incorporation, fundraising); building out engineering and product teams to deepen AI capabilities.
- **Direction for growth**: Become the default outside counsel for high-growth companies by combining elite attorneys with proprietary AI workflows, delivering faster and more affordable legal services than traditional BigLaw.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “A new kind of law firm” where technology and law intersect. Attorneys use cutting-edge AI tools; engineers build the platform that powers the firm. Emphasis on ownership, practical advice, and fast turnaround.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Some roles explicitly remote (e.g., Triage Paralegal). Software Engineer roles listed for San Francisco, CA and New York, NY (likely hybrid/on-site). Executive Assistant posted for “United States” suggesting remote flexibility.
- **Notable perks**: 
  - Flat-fee pricing model eliminates billable hour pressure for attorneys.
  - Engineers work alongside experienced attorneys and legal tech veterans.
  - For Full Stack Software Engineer: salary $160K–$190K, open to new grads.
  - Founders are former Casetext leaders (CTO and AI lead) and ex-BigLaw attorneys – strong mentorship environment.
  - Y Combinator backing provides startup energy and resources.

## Sources
1. [general.legal/about](https://general.legal/about)
2. [general.legal/careers](https://general.legal/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/general-legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-legal)
4. [get.general.legal](https://get.general.legal/)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/generallegalllp](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generallegalllp/jobs/4229559009)

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