about adalat ai
adalat ai is re-architecting india's courts with an end-to-end justice tech stack. our speech-to-text, ocr and case-flow tools already serve 10 states and 15 % of all courtrooms. backed by global foundations and built by alumni of harvard, mit, oxford and iiit-h, we ship technology that accelerates justice the way upi accelerated payments.
about the role
we're looking for a lead backend engineer to own the core services that power real-time courtroom transcription, ml pipelines and secure document workflows. you'll work side-by-side with our founders, ship fast, and set engineering standards for a stack that must scale to + courtrooms, eight hours a day.
what you'll do
- design, build and operate golang micro-services, event-driven workflows and serverless functions
- model complex legal data and build apis consumed by web, mobile and ml teams
- create cost-efficient, horizontally scalable systems that survive patchy bandwidth and high concurrency
- partner with ml researchers to productionise asr, semantic-search and feedback-loop pipelines
- champion observability (prometheus/newrelic), ci/cd and zero-downtime deploys
- mentor engineers and pitch pocs for the next big product bets
our tech
golang gcp eventbridge / kafka postgresql & dynamodb kubernetes & helm docker github actions graphql prometheus / newrelic
you're probably a fit if you
- have 5-8 years building distributed systems in production
- speak fluent go (or similar) and know your way around queues, caches and sharded dbs
- have shipped on kubernetes, automated with ci/cd and debugged with proper metrics + traces
- care about clean domain models, security, and the craft of writing maintainable code
- bonus: graphql, full-text search, streaming pipelines, encryption at rest/in-transit
in your first year you'll
- roll out a backend that supports + courtrooms running 8-10 hours daily
- stand up ml infra for voice-first editing, semantic search and continuous model retraining
- help courts create, manage and share highly-classified legal documents at national scale
perks
- remote-first, flexible hours & unlimited pto
- generous maternity / paternity leave
- autonomy, ownership and a no-ego team of builders
- direct access to harvard/mit/oxford networks & l&d stipends
how to apply
email with the subject "backend engineer (lead)"-include a résumé or github and a short note on the hardest system you've ever scaled.
we know impostor syndrome is real-if you're close on the reqs, please apply.
