Backend Engineer (AI/ Legal Tech)

At Saga, we’re building the intelligence that helps lawyers think faster, work smarter, and stay in control of their craft. Our AI platform blends legal reasoning with machine precision to make complex work simpler, sharper, and more human.

Our platform is scaling fast. Sales is growing, usage is increasing across regions, and AI workloads are becoming more demanding. Performance and reliability are no longer nice to have, they are essential. We are strengthening our backend team to make sure our systems scale with the product and the people who rely on it.

Your role as Backend Engineer

You will join a young, ambitious team that has been building the platform from the early sprints. The average age is 26. The mindset is ownership. We are remote first, spread across Europe, and strong communication is part of how we work. People write clearly, ask direct questions, and take responsibility for what they ship. As a Backend Engineer at Saga, you design and build backend systems powering AI driven legal products. You own APIs, data models, and services end to end. You work on document ingestion, processing, and semantic search using RAG. You improve performance, reliability, and security in multi tenant systems. You collaborate closely with backend teams, product engineers, and legal engineers to ship end to end features. You contribute to architectural decisions, decide when to design new systems and when to extend existing architecture, and take responsibility for what you build after it is released. The quality of what you ship directly influences how well our platform scales.

You will also:

• Design and build backend systems powering AI driven legal products
• Own APIs, data models, and services end to end
• Work on document ingestion, processing, and semantic search RAG
• Improve performance, reliability, and security in multi tenant systems
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product to ship end to end features
• Decide when to design new systems and when to extend existing architecture
  
  
  

What You Bring To Our Team

• 3+ years of backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Strong fundamentals in APIs, databases, and backend architecture
• Comfortable designing systems and implementing within existing codebases
• Security minded and production oriented
• High ownership. You ship, maintain, and improve what you build
• Experience with LLMs, AI integrations, or RAG pipelines
• Familiarity with vector databases
• Background in legal tech or enterprise SaaS
• Fluent English is required. Any additional European language is a plus.
  
  
  

Why join Saga Legal

Your engineering work will directly shape how thousands of lawyers use AI in their daily workflows. You will see your ideas move from system design to production to real client impact. Faster document review, sharper analysis, better decisions. Real consequences for real professionals. You will work at one of Europe’s fastest growing AI pioneers alongside smart, driven people across engineering, legal, product, and research who care deeply about quality and impact.

We also offer

• Competitive compensation with base salary and equity, giving you the opportunity to participate in long term value
• A real opportunity to change how the legal industry works, helping professionals regain time, clarity, and control
• A remote first setup with social hubs in Amsterdam and Oslo and regular in person collaboration for workshops and team moments
• 20 paid vacation days and holiday allowance
• A personal budget for conferences, courses, and certifications
• The chance to work across the full cycle, from building systems to seeing how lawyers use them in practice
  
  
  

Our process

If all this sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to hear from you.