Software Development Engineer III | Backend

This is a senior IC role with significant architectural ownership and technical leadership expectations. A Seasoned SDE3 / Tech Lead at SpotDraft is expected to own and evolve critical systems end-to-end, influence technical direction across teams, and drive high-quality engineering decisions at a platform level. Beyond building systems, you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to guide long-term technical strategy. The role works closely with Engineering Leaders on system evolution and key technical decisions.

• Requirements:
• - 7-10 years of backend development experience in product environments.
• - Strong Backend fundamentals (Python, Django/Flask experience is a plus).
• - Proven experience designing and evolving multiple distributed or high-scale systems in production.
• - Strong system design fundamentals with the ability to drive HLD + LLD independently.
• - Demonstrated experience owning systems across multiple iterations (build, scale optimize evolve).
• - Ability to reason deeply about performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability trade-offs.
• - Experience in influencing cross-team technical decisions and architecture.
• - Comfort working directly with stakeholders and driving alignment across functions.
• Responsibilities:
• - Designing and evolving scalable backend systems (HLD + LLD) with clear trade-off articulation.
• - Driving architecture decisions across services and influencing platform direction.
• - Building and evolving APIs that power core product and platform workflows.
• - Identifying opportunities for platform abstraction and reusable frameworks.
• - Owning services/modules end-to-end across their lifecycle, including long-term scalability and stability.
• - Proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and system limitations.
• - Leading and contributing to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term architecture.
• - Mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar for system design and code.
• - Driving technical debt reduction and platform simplification initiatives.
• - Partnering with Staff/Principal Engineers on complex system design and architectural direction.
• - Using AI tools pragmatically to improve engineering quality and velocity.
• - Ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable at scale.
• Why SpotDraft?
• - Brilliant teammates—Work with some of the sharpest minds in legal tech.
• - Expand your network—Interact with top founders, investors, and industry leaders.
• - Real impact—Take ownership of projects and see your work in action.
• - Big goals, bold moves—We trust you to deliver, innovate, and push boundaries.

Our Core Values

• - Our business is to delight Customers - Be Transparent. Be Direct - Be Audacious - Outcomes over everything else - Elevate each other - Be Passionate. Take Ownership.
• - Be 1% better every day.
• All candidates’ personal data shared during the recruitment process will be handled with utmost confidentiality and used solely for hiring purposes, in line with applicable data protection regulations *SpotDraft is an equal-opportunity employer. Candidates will not be discriminated against based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran, or disability status