About Atticus
At any given time, 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today, most never get it.
Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured person in crisis to get the life-changing aid they deserve. In the last six years, we've become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits. We also help victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence get compensation from insurance.
So far, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10B in life-changing aid and earned over 17,000 five-star reviews. And we're just getting started.
We've raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Fika, Forerunner, GV (Google Ventures), and True Ventures. We closed our Series C in April 2025 and are well-funded for the foreseeable future. In 2025, our team grew from 151 to 210, and we'll grow again in 2026.
The Job
Atticus works in an industry dominated by outdated technology that is ripe for fresh thinking. Our core competitors rely on massive call centers, antiquated CRMs, and paper checks. As a VC-backed tech company, our engineering team powers everything we do — from creating elegant and intuitive product experiences for people in crisis who are seeking legal aid, to building powerful tools for our network of attorneys that actually help them win the benefits they need.
We're looking for a backend-leaning senior software engineer to join our Representation Pod, a cross-functional team of engineers, PMs, and designers building the core tools that help the law firms in our network deliver consistent and effective representation for our clients. The Rep Pod is building new products from scratch: reimagining what legal experiences for our clients and attorneys with today’s technology.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You'll own complex backend challenges around how we structure data, systems, and APIs — while staying deeply connected to the clients & lawyers who use the products you build. That means bringing both genuine user empathy and sharp product instincts alongside the technical depth to make hard architectural decisions and see them through.
What You'll Do
Own significant backend systems end-to-end: set and hold a high bar for architecture, design, implementation, and production health.
Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements, not just implement them — we trust your intuitions and want you to have opinions
You’ll bring 0-to-1 product thinking to an area where your work has a tangible impact on our client’s wellbeing.
Mentor engineers on the team, with particular emphasis on backend patterns
Work across the stack as needed, everything from frontend UI work to data systems.
What We're Looking For
Required:
5+ years of experience building production software, including meaningful time at a seed-stage startup or as an early member of a new product team at a later-stage company — with clear evidence of increasing scope and ownership over time
Experience on a high-performing product team, working closely with strong PMs and designers to ship user-focused solutions
Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs, with a high bar for data modeling and architecture
Deep user empathy — you think carefully about the people using what you build, not just the technical implementation
A track record of mentoring engineers and genuine excitement about helping teammates grow
Bonus / Nice to Have:
Experience with Go
Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, & Docker
Background in industries with complex workflows — legal, healthcare, or financial services
Experience building products for consumers or two-sided marketplaces
Experience evolving systems as teams and traffic scale
Interest in developer experience, internal tooling, or team process improvement
We are strongly committed to building a diverse team. If you're from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.
Salary and Benefits
This is a rare opportunity to join a startup with strong traction — substantial funding, well-respected backers, real growth, and thousands of happy customers — while still being small enough to have a huge impact and help shape our culture.
We're a certified B Corporation tackling a critical social problem. Everything we build touches real lives.
Competitive compensation including equity, plus:
Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered
15 vacation days and ~20 paid holidays per year, including two weeks at end-of-year
Free OneMedical membership
$600/year internet stipend
$1,000/year education and training reimbursement
Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
401(k) and optional HSA/FSA
Base salary range: $157,250 to $230,000, plus equity and benefits. Offer will reflect candidate experience, skills, and internal equity.
Location
Fully remote. Travel to LA on the company dime as needed — typically quarterly plus offsites. We invest seriously in in-person culture.
Atticus helps people in crisis get aid from government and insurance. More than 100,000 Americans (of all backgrounds) turn to us each year, and we get them >$10B in lifetime monetary aid and healthcare coverage. All are at a difficult moment in their lives, when they need a helping hand but bureaucratic hurdles can feel insurmountable. We use modern tech + caring human experts to turn a complex, demeaning, and scary process into a simple, dignified, and ethical one. Our ultimate goal is to reverse the decades-long decline of America’s social safety net.
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We’re hiring a lot, and if that mission excites you we’d love to talk. Things to know:
* We’re an odd beast: (a) a high-growth venture-backed tech startup building a massive valuable company, (b) a social-enterprise B Corp on a mission to help people in need, and (c) a licensed law firm with deep ethical obligations to our clients. We hew to a very particular business model to keep those all aligned! We love hiring people torn between public-sector mission and private-sector dynamism.
* We’re largely remote but have physical presence in LA, SF, NY, and Phoenix. We don’t care where you live/work, but we appreciate people who like their colleagues, we maintain nice offices for teams that like working in-person, and we drag folks to on-sites/retreats more than most.
* We’re growing at a rapid clip (85 in Jan 2024, 150 in Jan 2025, 200+ today) with all the opportunities/change that involves. Some parts of our business operate with maturity and scale, and others act like internal early startups. There are jobs open in each of those sides, and chances to jump back and forth.
* We’re open to folks from all backgrounds. The team includes former teachers, musicians, consultants, corporate lawyers, pro athletes, organizers, and journalists... college dropouts and people who won prizes at Harvard. Some of our best people applied cold on LinkedIn, so we take this place seriously! We'd love to hear from you!
