Software Engineer

About the role

Department: Information Technology

Location: Remote- USA

Description

The Software Engineer is a core member of the Technology team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the applications, integrations, and AI-powered workflows that run firm operations. This is a hands-on engineering role on a small team that builds real Legal Tech software.

We build on .NET and Azure. You will work in C# every day, ship to Azure, and build the integration layer that connects our platform to the systems the firm runs on. You will own projects end to end, from requirements through deployment and support, working directly with the Lead Engineer and the Director of Technology.

Who You Are

You are a builder who thinks in systems, not syntax — and you'd rather be handed a hard problem and the room to solve it than a checklist to follow. You have deep production experience in C# and .NET, and you understand software architecture well enough to make structural decisions and defend them under pressure. You have designed something from the ground up rather than only maintaining what someone else left behind, and you know the difference between a system that scales and one that merely works today.

You move fast and you like it that way. You're at your best with several things in motion at once, and a single project demanding narrow focus for weeks on end is the fastest way to lose you. Rules and process matter to you only to the extent they help you ship — you'll work around a rulebook that's slowing you down, and you don't need much oversight to know what to do next. You're direct and factual rather than diplomatic, more comfortable working through a hard technical problem solo than managing a room, and you'd rather earn trust with results than with small talk.

You have built the integrations that make platforms talk to each other, and you know that the friction vendor software leaves behind is where the expensive problems live. You have probably built internal tools at a company where technology was not the product, and you understand both the constraints and the leverage that come with that.

You take AI-assisted development seriously, treating it as infrastructure you have invested in and tuned rather than as a novelty. You ship quickly without shipping carelessly, and you are comfortable owning a project with minimal oversight.

What You'll Do

Platform and Application Engineering

Design and build applications in C# and .NET that surface operational data to attorneys and firm leadership

Architect and implement services using modern .NET patterns, treating separation of concerns, testability, and maintainability as first-class requirements

Model complex legal and operational domains into software that reflects how the business works

Integration Engineering

Design and build integrations across the firm's platform ecosystem, including CRM, telephony, document management, cloud services, and accounting systems

Develop and maintain REST APIs and middleware that keep data flowing reliably between connected systems

Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows where the problem calls for them

AI-Powered Tools

Build AI-powered tools for call analysis, document processing, and operational data extraction

Extend the team's AI development tooling, including agents, context engineering, and automation that compounds across the team

Contribute to the firm's growing portfolio of AI-assisted workflows

Cloud and Engineering Practice

Build and operate applications on Azure, covering provisioning, networking, identity, security, and cost management

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and engineering standards

Participate in the team's shared IT responsibilities, providing on-call support as needed

What You'll Bring

Required Experience

7+ years of software development experience

Proficiency in C# and .NET (ASP.NET Core), with production systems you architected or substantially owned

Experience designing full-stack applications end to end, including a modern frontend such as Blazor or React

Strong relational database and SQL skills, such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including deploying, operating, and securing real workloads

Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating third-party SaaS platforms

Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows

Working fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor

Self-directed, able to own projects end to end with minimal oversight

What Makes You a Great Fit

Architectural depth in multi-tenant or white-label platform design

Experience with message-based or event-driven systems

Identity and access work with OpenID Connect, Microsoft Entra ID, or comparable identity providers

Production experience with AI and LLM APIs such as Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock, especially Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, custom agents, or automation skills

Observability practice, including structured logging, distributed tracing, and OpenTelemetry

Familiarity with CRM platform APIs such as Salesforce, and with Microsoft Graph

Experience mentoring junior developers or leading small technical projects

Why Join Jimerson Birr?

Most law firms treat technology as a cost center. We don't. We're fast adopters of technology. Not for the sake of it, but with a specific purpose: to take the administrative, repeatable work off our attorneys' plates so they can spend their energy where it actually matters for clients. That philosophy runs all the way through the firm's long-term plan, and it puts Technology at the center of how we deliver for clients, not on the sidelines supporting it!

Because Technology is a small, hands-on team, you get the kind of ownership and visible impact that's hard to find at a larger company: you'll work directly with the Lead Engineer and Director of Technology, own projects end to end, and see your work show up in how attorneys and staff actually do their jobs; not buried three layers deep in a backlog.

AI-assisted development isn't a bonus skill here, it's treated as core infrastructure you're expected to build with and improve. If you want to work somewhere technologically advanced enough to back that claim up with real investment and real autonomy, this is that place!