Alexi is a Toronto based, VC funded ($15M Series A) AI LegalTech platform for litigators. We are on a mission to transform the legal services industry by building cutting edge AI-powered solutions. We are a team of software engineers, lawyers and designers working hard to achieve our long-term mission.

As of today, we are hiring a Director of Engineering (Platform/ AWS) to lead our platform and backend engineering teams. This role requires deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly AWS, to design, build, and maintain scalable, robust, and cost-efficient backend systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture, systems thinking, and building foundational systems that support AI and customer-facing applications.

The Director of Engineering role will be responsible for the following on a day to day basis:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, robust, and cost-efficient backend systems
• Create and guide the overall design and architecture of our cloud-first systems, ensuring they communicate effectively and scale efficiently
• build and manage cloud infrastructure, including serverless architectures and servers with replication capabilities
• Oversee the development and maintenance of APIs and integrations
• Integrating ML models into AWS stack
• Developing micro services
• Designing backend chat systems
• Redesigning/ evaluate/ integrate all the services that plug into the backend chat system

The successful candidate will have strong skills in the following areas:

• AWS
• Designing and building backend systems

Culture:

We are a dynamic team of engineers bringing together iterative NLP model development, high performance systems engineering and effective software development. Much of our work is highly experimental. We are not perfectionists, we move fast, and are not afraid to be on the learning curve. A willingness to learn and a can-do attitude are must-haves to survive and thrive in this team.

As a startup we often have to find a balance between speed, quality and cost of development. This often requires us to think creatively and even invent what doesn’t exist. We are ambitious, we take risks, and we embrace failure in a judgment free but accountable environment. We enable each other, but also consciously protect our time to deliver high quality work, to help create a thriving innovation culture.

Benefits:

• Competitive Stock Options
• Competitive Pay
• Unlimited vacation days (with minimum mandatory 3 weeks paid time off)
• Additional paid time off winter holidays (last week of December)
• Company-wide innovation days – dedicated to projects you’d like to innovate on within the context of the work the company is doing
• Latest MacBook Pro dedicated for work, and any other equipment that enables you for work
• Hybrid work environment (flexible). Easy public transit access to office in downtown Toronto
• No red tape, no unnecessary processes, accelerated learning and growth.
• Health benefits
• Work for a high growth startup, wear multiple hats, make a real impact. We are building something legit and impactful, that can truly change the world for good.