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title: 'Software Development Engineer III | Backend at SpotDraft'
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# Software Development Engineer III | Backend at SpotDraft

- **Company:** SpotDraft
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spotdraft/62a79224-efa6-4a0d-8cfc-29ab3fc48f7d/application

**Skills:** Python, Backend Development, Distributed Systems, System Design, API Design, Performance Optimization, Load Distribution (HLD/LLD), Django, Flask

> This senior role involves architectural ownership and technical leadership, requiring the engineer to own critical systems end-to-end, influence technical direction, and mentor engineers. The position focuses on designing scalable backend systems, driving platform architecture, and ensuring high-quality engineering...

## Job description

This is a senior IC role with significant architectural ownership and technical leadership expectations. A Seasoned SDE3 / Tech Lead at SpotDraft is expected to own and evolve critical systems end-to-end, influence technical direction across teams, and drive high-quality engineering decisions at a platform level. Beyond building systems, you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to guide long-term technical strategy. The role works closely with Engineering Leaders on system evolution and key technical decisions.

Requirements:

- 7-10 years of backend development experience in product environments.
- Strong Backend fundamentals (Python, Django/Flask experience is a plus).
- Proven experience designing and evolving multiple distributed or high-scale systems in production.
- Strong system design fundamentals with the ability to drive HLD + LLD independently.
- Demonstrated experience owning systems across multiple iterations (build, scale optimize evolve).
- Ability to reason deeply about performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability trade-offs.
- Experience in influencing cross-team technical decisions and architecture.
- Comfort working directly with stakeholders and driving alignment across functions.

Responsibilities:

- Designing and evolving scalable backend systems (HLD + LLD) with clear trade-off articulation.
- Driving architecture decisions across services and influencing platform direction.
- Building and evolving APIs that power core product and platform workflows.
- Identifying opportunities for platform abstraction and reusable frameworks.
- Owning services/modules end-to-end across their lifecycle, including long-term scalability and stability.
- Proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and system limitations.
- Leading and contributing to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term architecture.
- Mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar for system design and code.
- Driving technical debt reduction and platform simplification initiatives.
- Partnering with Staff/Principal Engineers on complex system design and architectural direction.
- Using AI tools pragmatically to improve engineering quality and velocity.
- Ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable at scale.

Why SpotDraft?

- Brilliant teammates—Work with some of the sharpest minds in legal tech.
- Expand your network—Interact with top founders, investors, and industry leaders.
- Real impact—Take ownership of projects and see your work in action.
- Big goals, bold moves—We trust you to deliver, innovate, and push boundaries.

Our Core Values

- Our business is to delight Customers
- Be Transparent. Be Direct
- Be Audacious
- Outcomes over everything else
- Elevate each other
- Be Passionate. Take Ownership.
- Be 1% better every day.

All candidates’ personal data shared during the recruitment process will be handled with utmost confidentiality and used solely for hiring purposes, in line with applicable data protection regulations

*SpotDraft is an equal-opportunity employer. Candidates will not be discriminated against based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran, or disability status

## About SpotDraft

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SpotDraft is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that automates the end-to-end contract process for legal, sales, finance, and HR teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B-II)
- **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India (global HQ) and New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Shashank Bijapur (CEO) and Madhav Bhagat (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), AI-powered SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving legal, sales, finance, HR, and procurement teams at mid-market to enterprise companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We believe humans should do human work and leave the paper pushing to technology.” The company aims to free legal teams from mundane tasks and unlock their true potential.

## Products & Services
- **AI-Native CLM Platform**: End-to-end contract automation covering request, drafting, negotiation (redlining), approval workflows, e-signatures, and a centralized contract repository.
- **Contract AI (VerifAI)**: Built-in AI that understands context, follows user-defined rules, and flags risky language during negotiations. Designed to adhere to California State Bar and ABA guidance on generative AI.
- **Clickwrap Agreements**: Support for digital consent capture.
- **Negotiation & Collaboration Tools**: Shared workspaces for legal and business teams to review and redline contracts in Word, Slack, or within SpotDraft.
- **ESignatures**: Native e-sign capabilities compliant with ESIGN and eIDAS.
- **Analytics & Intelligence**: Dashboards for contract data insights—renewals, bottlenecks, team workloads, and performance metrics.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $90.61 million total raised (latest round: $8M Series B-II, announced in 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $13.2M (LinkedIn estimate); trusted by 450+ companies
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Key investor includes Qualcomm (partnered for $8M raise); backed by prominent venture capital firms
- **Growth Signals**: 340 employees (up 16.8% YoY); operates in 7 countries (India, USA, and others); expanding global footprint with big brands; recently launched AI capabilities with strong regulatory compliance focus

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native design**: AI is embedded into every part of the platform rather than bolted on, giving it deep contextual understanding of contracts.
- **Speed to value**: Go-live in weeks (not months) with in-house implementation and a dedicated customer success manager.
- **Security-first**: Industry-leading security and compliance standards; AI built to respect data privacy (on-device AI emphasis).
- **Founder pedigree**: CEO is a Harvard-trained lawyer and former White & Case attorney; CTO is a Carnegie Mellon grad and ex-Google/Microsoft engineer.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Actively building presence across the Americas, EMEA, and India.
- **AI leadership**: Continuing to invest in on-device, secure AI that gives legal teams control while maximizing automation.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Targeting larger, regulated companies that need compliant, auditable contract management.
- **Product depth**: Enhancing analytics, workflow automation, and integrations to become the “system of record” for contracts.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Team values include “Be Transparent. Be Direct,” “Be Audacious,” “Elevate Each Other,” “Outcomes over everything else,” and “Become 1% Better everyday.” Emphasis on ownership, experimentation, and customer delight.
- **Work policy**: Flexible work schedule; pet-friendly offices; remote/hybrid options available.
- **Perks**: Medical insurance coverage, mental health wellness support, professional development allowance, incentivized rewards and recognition platform.
- **Engineering culture**: Led by a CTO from Google/Microsoft; strong focus on building a world-class development team and a globally recognized SaaS brand.
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work on a product that directly transforms how legal teams operate—using AI to automate tedious, repetitive work.

## Sources
1. [SpotDraft About Us](https://www.spotdraft.com/about-us)
2. [SpotDraft Homepage](https://www.spotdraft.com/)
3. [SpotDraft Careers](https://www.spotdraft.com/careers)
4. [CB Insights - SpotDraft](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spotdraft)
5. [LinkedIn - SpotDraft](https://in.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft)

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