Senior Backend Engineer

12 hours ago
charleston, south carolina, United States Lawfully Full-time

Immigration runs on data scattered across a dozen government systems and nearly impossible to navigate alone. Lawfully turns it into clarity .


We bring that data into a clean, live case timeline that millions of immigrants — and the law firms serving them — depend on. With the recent launch of Lawfully Intelligence , we've opened that data layer up to the immigration attorneys who move the system every day, and they've embraced it fast.


Behind it is a real distributed system: ~25 Go services, a high-throughput Kafka pipeline, an EKS platform, and a legacy monolith we're actively dismantling. We're looking for the person to own its technical direction and reliability — and grow the team that runs it. This is a high-impact engineering role with meaningful equity, real ownership, and direct influence on how Lawfully scales.


What you'll do

  • Set the architecture. Own how our backend fleet and data pipeline fit together, and where they go next.
  • Run the platform. Our EKS infrastructure, deploy pipeline, Kafka, and databases are yours to make fast, safe, and boring.
  • Kill the hard problems. Single points of failure, secrets baked into images, infra that drifts out of version control — we know our debt, and you'll lead the paydown.
  • Land the migration. Strangle the legacy monolith into modern Go services without users ever noticing.
  • Build the team. Mentor engineers, set the review bar, and run calm, sharp incident responses.


You're a strong fit if you

  • Know backend distributed systems deeply and have led engineers before. We weigh demonstrated ability over tenure — if you have the chops, the year count matters less.
  • Are strong in Go (or can get there fast) and think clearly about Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platform like AWS or GCP in production.
  • Have decomposed a legacy system in flight — without breaking the clients depending on it.
  • Can hold the line between shipping features and paying down reliability debt, and make the call when they conflict.
  • Lead by raising the people around you, not just the code.


Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Scala, Python and Airflow.
  • Fluent with AI-assisted engineering workflows — you get real leverage from tools like Claude Code or Cursor, and know where they help and where they don’t.
  • Conversational Korean — much of our team is Korean-speaking, so it's a plus for collaboration, though not a requirement.


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