Software Engineer

Join us in building the autopilot for legal services

Today, legal work is done the way it has been done for a century — manually, by humans, in six-minute increments. Every contract drafted from scratch. Every memo researched line by line. Every matter running through layers of review that someone is paying for at hundreds of dollars an hour.

That is about to change. We believe that in five years, more than 80% of legal work will pass through a model before it ever reaches a human. The implication is not faster lawyers — it is a fundamentally different way that legal services get bought and procured.

Our mission is to make high-quality legal work accessible and affordable for everyone. We are going after the services spend, not the software spend — helping law firms restructure their delivery model around AI, and helping in-house teams do the same. One engine of agents and workflows underneath every matter we touch.

We are a lean, in-person based in New York City, backed by leading investors and growing fast. Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

The Opportunity

August is building the world’s largest AI-native legal services company — and rewriting how law firms scale. Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We’re targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy.

As a Full-Stack Engineer at August, you will design and scale production-grade agents that perform legal tasks with expert-level reasoning. You’ll work closely with the founders, legal experts, and product team to deploy AI systems in high-stakes workflows used by real lawyers across the globe.

What You’ll Do

• Build intuitive and optimized UI/UX using React and TypeScript for workflows that integrate reasoning LLMs and agentic architectures.

• Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with our customers and legal team.

• Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, etc. for new AI tasks, finding the balance between state-of-the-art and pragmatism.

About You

• 2+ years experience building production-quality frontend applications.

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.

• Proven ability to create polished, intuitive user interfaces with attention to detail.

• Comfortable working at an early stage company with ownership and rapid iteration.

Benefits

• Medical insurance coverage

• Flexible PTO

• Parental Leave

• Centralized office equipment ordering for all employees

• Equinox or Chelsea Piers gym membership

• In-office perks: lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks, and more

• Budget for intra-office travel

• Team-building events

• Relocation support to NYC (as needed)

Why Join August

• Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.

• Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.

• Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.

• Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.

• Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.

• In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment

• Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions

• Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.

Why Join August

• Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.

• Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.

• Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.

• Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.

• Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.

• In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment

• Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions

• Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.