Founding Software Engineer
About the role
Founding software engineer role at Kalinda, a YC-backed startup focused on accelerating class action case qualification with AI. In-person in San Francisco. Role leads towards Head of Engineering as the company scales.
Responsibilities
- Own multiple aspects of the product across the full stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure) and ship features quickly for a forward-deployed sales process.
- Provide high-agency, wear multiple hats across the product lifecycle, iterate with incomplete information, and make sound technical decisions.
- Collaborate closely with founders and potentially fly on-site for customer engagements and on-sites.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Comfortable across the stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure)
- Experience designing scalable, maintainable architectures from scratch
- Proficient in Python and modern development tools
- Familiar with cloud platforms, CI/CD, and basic DevOps practices
- Product-minded with strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Self-directed, ownership-driven, and willing to wear many hats
- Interest in startups and building from zero to one
Skills
About Kalinda
Deep research for class action law firms
Kalinda helps class action law firms qualify potential cases in minutes with AI. The nature of class action/mass torts involves thousands of cases for a single lawsuit. For every plaintiff (injured person), law firms involved in these cases compile everything from the products they used to the injuries they have. This data is extensive, granular, and buried deep in thousands of pages of medical, financial, and employment records and others. Kalinda extracts, summarizes, and aggregates data from these records for attorneys with AI. When scaled across an entire litigation, Kalinda works tirelessly and in parallel—turning a process that once took months into just a few hours. Kalinda provides firms with the equivalent manpower of hundreds of paralegals and legal nurses, allowing them to quickly determine which claimants are eligible and helping them file faster and in greater volume. To date, we’ve processed 600k pages of records and are live with 2 of the largest plaintiff law firms in the U.S!