Senior Backend Engineer at Verbit

Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

07 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Backend Development, Cloud Architecture, Python, REST APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Asynchronous Processing, System Design, Scalability, Performance Optimization, AI Development Tools, AI Infrastructure, Teamwork, Communication Skills, Project Ownership, Fast-Moving Environment

Industry

Digital Accessibility Services

Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Legal Tech engineering team and help build the next generation of AI-driven litigation ecosystem. This role combines top-tier backend engineering, cloud architecture, and cutting-edge LLM/AI innovation. You’ll build high-scale, secure, multi-tenant services that turn our real-time transcription engine into AI-powered workflows and assistants used by legal teams. The role offers real ownership and chances to lead initiatives, while giving you space to grow your skills in AI development and modern dev-AI tools—all within a supportive, collaborative team. This is a role for heart-and-soul players with passion, curiosity, and a desire to build something meaningful as part of a strong and mission-driven team. What makes Verbit unique? Verbit turns speech into impact. Our team of 250 professionals builds AI-driven solutions that help the world’s leading organizations get real value from their audio and video content. We serve high-end customers across the Legal, Media and Education markets with a next-generation verbal-intelligence platform that brings AI into the core of their workflows. Our in-house technology combines advanced LLMs, GenAI capabilities and speech AI to power everything from legal-tech automation and real-time insights to intelligent media and learning workflows. Beyond transcription or accessibility, Verbit provides actionable intelligence: smart summaries, analytics, search, knowledge extraction, legal-deposition insights and more. With more than 3,000 global customers relying on Verbit—including top law firms, universities, enterprises and media organizations—we’re building the future of how speech data is processed, understood and used. If you want to join our journey, you’ll need: 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience in a high-scale production environment Strong proficiency with Python, REST APIs and Cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP) Strong experience designing and building distributed, cloud-native microservices Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing Solid understanding of system design, scalability, availability, and performance optimization Practical experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) A significant advantage if you have practical experience with AI infra, such as: RAG, Agentic frameworks, Langfuse, LiteLLM Ability to take ownership and drive projects end-to-end, working proactively and independently and as a team in a fast-moving environment. Good communication skills and team work Ability to work efficiently both individually and within a team It will be even better if you have: Formal education in relevant fields (CS, Math, Electrical Engineering etc.) Experience with large scale SaaS solutions Ability to integrate AI/LLM features into backend services (e.g., prompting, embeddings, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning) Requirements null

Responsibilities

The Senior Backend Engineer will build high-scale, secure, multi-tenant services that transform a real-time transcription engine into AI-powered workflows for legal teams. This role involves leading initiatives and growing skills in AI development within a collaborative team.