Stblaw
Senior Software Engineer
New York, NY · Senior
No sponsorship$180k-$210kDetected 29 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentGitAWSAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsRESTLLMsDesign SystemsCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Salary Information NY Only: The estimated base salary range for this position is $180,000 to $210,000 at the time of posting.
- This role is exempt meaning it is not overtime pay eligible.
- Simpson Thacher will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain custom software solutions supporting Knowledge & Innovation initiatives, including AI-powered tools, internal platforms, and integrations with existing Firm systems.
- Build and extend integrations across SaaS platforms, internal systems, data sources, and AI/LLM services used in legal workflows.
- Develop frontend experiences that are polished, consistent, and designed with care - including establishing and maintaining component libraries and design system foundations as the team's product surface grows.
- Own and evolve the team's engineering infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and development environment tooling.
- Partner with IT to navigate the Firm's infrastructure environment, coordinating on security protocols, cloud resources, and deployment targets.
- Contribute to the development of AI-powered tools - including retrieval-augmented systems, document analysis platforms, search tools, and workflow automation - working alongside product, data scientists, and the broader K&I team.
- Support adoption and iteration by interfacing directly with legal staff as needed - demoing tools, gathering feedback, and helping users get value from what the team builds.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related working experience.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Bicep), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
- Practical experience with AI/LLM integration in production systems, or strong aptitude and interest in developing it.
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated progression in scope and responsibility.
- Strong full-stack skills across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python.
- Experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).
- Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders - able to demo work, gather feedback, and explain technical decisions clearly.
- Experience in legal technology, professional services, or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience establishing observability and monitoring practices (logging, alerting, dashboards) for production systems.
- Experience integrating and extending enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Pragmatic craftsmanship - cares about the quality and polish of what ships, without over-engineering.
- Curiosity and initiative - brings ideas, experiments, and improvements without being asked.
Compensation
- NY Only: The estimated base salary range for this position is $180,000 to $210,000 at the time of posting.
- This role is exempt meaning it is not overtime pay eligible.
- This Policy pertains to every aspect of an individual's relationship with the Firm, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training and development, promotion, transfer, discipline, termination, and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.
Benefits
- Establish observability practices - monitoring, logging, alerting - so the team has confidence in the health and behavior of production systems.
Company info
- Ensure systems are reliable, secure, and aligned with Firmwide technology standards.
- Help translate complex legal and business requirements into practical, well-engineered software, collaborating with attorneys, knowledge management professionals, and practice solutions managers.
- Evaluate and prototype new tools, frameworks, and approaches that could improve how the team builds - bring experiments that work to the rest of the team.
- Help establish the engineering culture of a new function - contribute to decisions about how the team works, not just what it builds.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Simpson Thacher will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
This listing is sourced directly from Stblaw's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.