Your Pick the Title — Engineering
About jhana
jhana is an early-stage, seed-funded startup building intelligent practice tools for the law across research, drafting, and document management. Our first product, India’s first AI paralegal, is live in an open-access beta at [jhana.ai](https://jhana.ai). We have ongoing POCs for legal workflow and document generation automation products that passively adapt to a firm's or company's data and norms. We hold fellowships and honors at nonprofit, academic, and technical programs. More details are available to candidates.
About the role
The vertical:
We are looking for versatile engineers who can excel in various areas of our technology stack. Whether your expertise lies in DevOps, front-end design, or back-end development, you’ll be a critical part of our team. We are hiring across all engineering roles and encourage applicants with diverse technical skills to apply.
The day-to-day:
DevOps
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Manage Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, S3, CDN, permissions, SMTP, sharding, snapshotting, and concurrency.
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Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, maintaining high availability and performance.
Front-End Design
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Create mockups and develop UI using React and Next.js.
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Implement user-friendly designs that meet our high standards for aesthetics and usability.
Back-End Development
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Develop and maintain APIs using Django, SQL, and Redis, including the implementation of WebSockets for real-time communication.
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Implement RBAC, file systems, WYSIWYG editors, high-throughput endpoints, parallelism, asynchronous processing, and robust security measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality.
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Ensure efficient data storage and retrieval, supporting our products' backend services, while maintaining high standards of data security.
About the Team
We are a public benefit corporation headquartered in Bangalore, operating within rapidly evolving legal systems. Our goal is to influence beneficence and alignment within the technological systems augmenting human institutions. Our team is diverse, with backgrounds spanning physics, mathematics, law, and public policy. We are small, fast-moving, horizontally flat, and deeply collaborative, with a high emphasis on code that reaches production quickly.
About you
You might resonate with some of these traits—
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Proficient in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, S3, CDNs, and related DevOps tooling.
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Comfort with frameworks like React, Next.js, and Figma is appreciated for UI/UX design candidates, but more important, you must have a deep understanding of the DOM and underlying web technologies.
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Familiar with paradigms like Django, SQL, Redis, and backend development for tasks like file system development with collaboration and RBAC, building high throughput endpoints, parallelism, and async processing.
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Strong understanding of network and systems architecture.
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Excited about building products that invent first-generation UX & workflows for SOTA technologies.
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Thrilled by ownership over impactful problem statements.
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Eager to write code that ships and drives real-world applications.
Miscellany
The expected compensation range is INR 15-30 lakhs per annum (US $18,000-36,000) and may include equity. Compensation is negotiable based on levels and mutual excitement.
This role will start ASAP and requires in-person presence at our Bangalore HQ. Full remote is negotiable for superlative candidates who are not India-based.
Come as you are: We are a diverse team constituted by members of different backgrounds in nationality, religion, caste, gender, and sexual orientation. We sincerely and wholeheartedly welcome diverse individuals.