Job detail for Senior Product Engineer - AI Native

Ready to be part of the Legal Tech revolution?


Vision:


As a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, DiliTrust is a global company dedicated to offering an integrated suite of legal and governance products. Our vision is to digitize legal departments worldwide. With an annual growth rate of over 40% since 2020, our ambition is to become the world's leading Legal Tech company, aiming for a valuation exceeding $1 billion by 2026.


Our Impact:


From generating General Meeting reports to leveraging AI-assisted contract lifecycle management, our teams in our 8 offices across France, the US, Mexico, MEA, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada are the driving force behind our global success. We proudly support 2,400 customers in 64 countries, with 80% of our clientele comprising listed companies in major markets such as Europe, North America, and the Middle East.


Our Recognition:


DiliTrust has been at the forefront of Legal Tech innovation, being the first Legal Tech with AI features since 2022. The company is renowned for providing a positive and entrepreneurial work environment. We are honored to have received the "Happy at Work" and "Tech at Work" labels every year since 2019.




The Role:


Lini is DiliTrust's proprietary AI engine, powering Ask Lini, Risk Detector, Document Summarization, Minute Generation, and every AI capability across the suite.
We are building a dedicated squad around it and are looking for a strong Software / Product Engineer, with a focus our platform architecture, to help us bring it to the next level.


As a Software Engineer work at the intersection of AI, product, and engineering. You will contribute to building, improving, and scaling the features that make Lini a reliable and powerful AI layer across the entire DiliTrust suite.


We are looking for an engineer who writes clean, production-ready code and is comfortable taking ownership of features end-to-end, from technical design to deployment. We also care about how you think about AI: whether you bring genuine curiosity to the product, and whether you can translate a model capability into a great user experience.


Missions

Write specifications as the durable asset of the project. Executable acceptance criteria, and — crucially — the non-functional requirements that specs almost never carry: data classification, endpoint × role authorization matrix, volumetry assumptions, latency and throughput budgets. These are the requirements whose later correction is superlinear, so they get decided before generation, not after.
Freeze the contracts before any fan-out. API schemas, types, module boundaries, invariants. Agents do not negotiate an interface in the hallway: each will make a plausible and incompatible assumption, discovered at integration.
Pilot coding agents with a tight brief and a bounded context — narrow tasks, defined input and output artifacts, explicit stop conditions and budgets, full traceability of what produced each change.
Keep producer and verifier separate. You do not sign off alone on generation you piloted, and you act as independent verifier on your peers' slices — with an adversarial brief ("find what breaks against this spec"), never "confirm this looks fine".
Build the asymmetric gates that make the slice safe at volume — expensive to satisfy, cheap to check: property tests, contract tests, query-count and allocation budgets, execution-plan checks, policy-as-code, backward-compatibility proofs. Written before the implementation exists, so the agent closes the feedback loop itself without consuming human attention.
Use code reading as a calibration instrument, not as a gate. Sample deliberately, by risk zone, to measure the real defect rate of the generator-plus-gates pair and to keep the team's mental model of its own system alive.
Keep work-in-progress low. Capped PR size, thin vertical slices, trunk-based with very short branches, feature flags over long-lived branches, CI as the agent's first task rather than its last. More features in flight does not mean faster delivery when the bottleneck is verification.
Design for blast radius. Reversibility, progressive delivery, structured logs, traces, metrics and instrumentation generated as a matter of course. On many paths, detecting in five minutes beats three days of review that prevents nothing.


Requirements
Being based in France with full working rights. Fluent in French and English.
Experience & Seniority:

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a significant portion spent building and operating B2B SaaS platforms in production
Proven ownership of features across their full lifecycle — design, delivery, iteration, maintenance — on long-lived, multi-year products
Strong background in complex, scalable web architectures, including real modularity: you have seen where coupling stops parallel work dead

AI-Native Practice:

Demonstrated, sustained use of coding agents in production work — not autocomplete, but delegated implementation with review and accountability
A concrete, articulated view of where generated code fails: correlated defects rather than idiosyncratic ones, uniform surface quality that destroys the usual "look here" review signals, plausibility with no author to interrogate
Comfort being accountable for code you did not author, and the discipline to refuse a change you cannot explain

Verification & Quality:

Real fluency in property-based testing, contract testing, and deriving tests from the specification rather than from the code
Test-data strategy, including maintaining a volumetrically representative dataset as part of the verification apparatus — not a nice-to-have
Instinct for the difference between a rigorous check and a scalable one: does the cost of checking grow with the volume produced?

Security & Performance (non-negotiable on this role):

Authorization modelling in multi-tenant systems, and why declarative, centrally enforced authorization beats reviewing each endpoint. Generated code reliably checks who you are and regularly forgets whether you are allowed
Awareness of the attack surface specific to an agent-assisted pipeline: prompt injection through ticket descriptions, code comments and dependency READMEs; supply-chain risk on hallucinated package names; least privilege for non-human identities; and the most frequent risk of all — production data or proprietary code leaking into the development loop
Performance as a measured number rather than a code-reading opinion: query budgets per HTTP request, N+1, unbounded result sets, missing indexes on new query paths, network calls in loops, execution-plan review. These are invisible at test-data scale and expensive in production

Product & Team Collaboration:

Excellent written communication — specification writing is now a core engineering skill on this role, not documentation overhead
Extensive experience working directly with product managers, designers and stakeholders in a product-oriented setup
Strong sense of ownership and sound judgment on risk: what to build, what not to build, what residual risk is acceptable and why

Education:

Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience in senior SaaS environments


What this role is not
We would rather say it up front:

It is not a prompt-engineering role, and it is not an ML/LLM research role.
It is not a role where green tests are sufficient evidence. On security and performance, "the spec is met and the tests pass" is not a weak signal — it is a null one.
It is not a ticket queue. The profile that shrinks in an AI-native team is the one whose value was implementing assigned tickets between two boundaries.


Our Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js / TypeScript
Frontend: Vue.js 3
Database: PostgreSQL, MariaDB
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Cloud: GCP

Engineering apparatus you will use and help build: coding agents orchestrated in CI, aspect-scoped verification agents (authorization, performance, spec conformance, dependencies), policy-as-code, property-based and contract testing, volumetric test datasets, load and endurance gates on critical paths, feature flags, progressive delivery and end-to-end tracing.

What we offer

Join a fast-growing company in a friendly, international environment — engineering primarily in Paris, with further engineering presence in Berlin, Montreal and Wilmington (DE), and offices across France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada, the USA, Mexico and Dubai;
Our "Remote Policy" guarantees that you can find the right balance between "Onsite" and "Remote";
Last but not least, all the day-to-day benefits of the CSE, luncheon vouchers, profit sharing bonuses, etc...


Recruitment process

Interview with a TA team member (30/45 mins)
Interview with the Engineering Manager (1h)
Technical interview (1h30) — two parts: turning an ambiguous requirement into a specification with executable acceptance criteria, then an adversarial review of an agent-generated diff against that specification
Interview with the CTO (45 mins)


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