Principal Engineer

Principal Software Engineer – Full Stack (Backend Leaning)

The global capital markets are among the largest markets in the world valued at $50T+ and growing. Transactions in these markets are complex, and critical, nuanced legal terms are woven into lengthy documents. These documents must be digested and analyzed by many different parties over the course of a single transaction, and multiple decisions are made based on the terms laid out and quantitative and qualitative attributes within.

This fundamental need, plus a booming market, drives enormous demand for precise extraction and benchmarking of legal terms.

As a Principal Software Engineer at Noetica, you will help build robust backend systems and APIs that power our search‑centric web experience, which is core to the workflow of our end users. This role is backend‑leaning: you’ll spend most of your time on server‑side architecture, data processing, and API design, while also contributing to frontend features as needed. You will collaborate with a talented team of AI/ML PhDs, legal SMEs, and market strategists to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services.

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform.
• Write maintainable, high‑performance server‑side code and data processing pipelines.
• Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions.
• Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite the productionization of our ever‑growing list of document insights.
• Build and maintain integrations with third‑party services and internal ML systems.
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed to deliver features end to end.
• Work on performance optimization for data‑intensive backend operations.
• Take ownership of engineering excellence and collaborate on code practices and design patterns to ensure long‑term maintainability and scalability.
• Take ownership of developer experience by improving/automating CI/CD and other day‑to‑day production operations.

Your contributions will directly impact the performance and reliability of Noetica's core infrastructure and shape the technical direction of our platform.