Senior Full Stack Engineer

About the Company

Adalat AI is building an end-to-end justice tech stack that automates manual and clerical pain points in courtrooms, giving judges back time to focus on what matters most: decision-making and delivering justice. Our solutions - from AI-powered transcription in Indian languages to case-flow management and document navigation - are now deployed across 9 states, covering nearly 20% of India’s judiciary. Backed by leading technology companies and funders, and incubated at MIT and Oxford, Adalat AI is working to eliminate judicial delays and expand access to timely justice. Founded by a team with backgrounds in law, technology, and economics from Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and IIIT Hyderabad, we are scaling rapidly across India and the Global South.

Role Overview

We're hiring a Senior Fullstack Developer to lead and deliver end-to-end features at Adalat AI. You'll work across the stack on building frontends with modular state management, backend services, and database design — while setting the technical direction for how we build. You'll mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and raise the bar for quality and speed across a small team of elite builders shipping impactful features fast.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, production-grade features spanning Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Go, and Postgres.
• Own architectural decisions — from database schema design to React component APIs — with a focus on long-term maintainability.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and design discussions.
• Collaborate closely with design, legal, and product teams to translate ambiguous requirements into polished, reliable features.
• Set and uphold engineering standards: unit tests, linters, end-to-end tests, performance benchmarks, and accessibility.
• Proactively identify technical debt, prototype improvements, and champion initiatives that make the platform faster and more resilient.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working on production JavaScript/TypeScript codebases.
• Demonstrated track record of leading and shipping complex features end-to-end, including driving alignment across teams.
• Deep expertise in React and modern frontend architecture; experience building and evolving design systems.
• Strong proficiency with Go backend services and Postgres, including schema design, query optimisation, and migrations.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide engineering quality.
• Sharp instinct for reducing user pain and improving speed and accessibility in high-stakes, real-world environments.

Bonus

• Familiarity with GraphQL or other API design patterns at scale.
• Prior experience working in a legal domain.

What You Will Achieve in a Year

• Led and shipped multiple high-impact platform features with measurable improvements to courtroom workflows.
• Established architectural patterns and engineering norms that the wider team builds on.
• Meaningfully levelled up the engineers around you through mentorship and technical leadership.
• Contributed to improving access to justice at scale — for real users, in real courtrooms.

Join our team!

If you're driven by meaningful work and want to build technology that changes how justice is delivered — we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of a team that ships fast, thinks deeply, and works on problems that matter.

👉 Apply here

Interview Process

We keep our process straightforward and transparent. Here's what to expect:

• R1 — Founder Chat _(30 minutes)_
  An introduction to Adalat AI — our mission, the problem we're solving, and an initial conversation around role fit.
• R2 — Technical Round _(60 minutes)_
  A coding session on a pre-shared codebase. You'll have time to review it beforehand so you can hit the ground running.
• R3 — Background Deep-Dive _(60 minutes)_
  A focused discussion on your background — the problems you've worked on, what you've built, and how your experience connects to what we're doing at Adalat AI.
• R4 — Offer
  If it's a great match on both sides, we'll move forward with an offer.