Job Description

Role Overview: As a Chief Technology Officer, you will craft the architecture and scalability roadmap for Lucios core services. Youll partner closely with the Founders, Product, and Engineering leadership to design and build systems that handle rapid growth, ensure high availability, and maintain data security. Youll also mentor senior engineers, shape best practices, and drive technical initiatives end-to-end. What Youll Do: Architect & Scale: Design and evolve Lucios microservices-based backend to support 10 user growth. Technical Leadership: Own end-to-end delivery of major features, from design through production rollout and monitoring. Mentorship: Guide and upskill engineers on system design, performance optimization, and code quality. Reliability & Security: Establish SLAs, implement observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and enforce best practices for data privacy and compliance. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Founders, Product, and Design to translate lawyer workflows into robust, intuitive solutions. Hiring: Onboard talented engineers who are aligned with our vision and can help us scale. Who You Are 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a senior or staff role. Proven track record architecting and scaling cloud-native SaaS products (AWS/GCP/Azure). Deep expertise in backends, distributed data stores (MongoDB, Redis), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Hands-on with DevOps toolchains (CI/CD, Terraform). Strong knowledge of LLM integrations, vector databases, and AI inference pipelines. Excellent communicator who can drive technical consensus and write clear design docs. Nice to Have Experience in legal-tech or document processing. Background in frontend frameworks (React) for end-to-end ownership.