Backend Engineer AI/Legal Tech - Saga

Saga is an AI platform built by lawyers and technologists, designed to manage the entire lifecycle of legal work - from research and contract analysis to project management and knowledge sharing. Founded in Norway and built for the legal profession from day one, Saga integrates with local legal sources across jurisdictions and is currently available in 12 languages. In just 18 months, the company has grown to 71 employees, 5000 users across 16 countries. With market leadership in Norway and the Netherlands, and active expansion across Europe, Saga is scaling fast - and looking for people who want to build something that matters. Your role as Backend Engineer As a Backend Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power AI-driven legal workflows. You'll own backend services end-to-end, from TypeScript/Node.js REST APIs and data models to deployment and ongoing operation. Working closely with engineering, legal, and product teams, you'll develop scalable features including document processing, semantic search, vector search, and RAG-based capabilities powered by LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. You'll help shape technical architecture while balancing innovation with practical improvements to existing systems. Success in this role comes from delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable systems that create measurable impact for customers.

What you'll be doing

Design, build, and maintain backend services, REST APIs, and data models using TypeScript and Node.js

Develop document ingestion, processing, semantic search, vector search, and RAG-based systems leveraging LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google

Build and operate asynchronous processing pipelines, background workers, and long-running jobs

Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security across distributed, multi-tenant systems and databases

Collaborate with engineering, legal, and product teams to deliver customer-facing features and contribute to architectural decisions

Monitor, maintain, and continuously improve production systems and platform capabilities

Requirements

What you bring to our team

3+ years of professional backend engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js

Strong understanding of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and backend architecture

Experience designing and implementing solutions within existing production codebases

Experience operating and supporting backend services in production environments

A strong ownership mindset with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and continuous improvement

Clear written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Why join Saga Legal Saga is a fast-growing legal innovation company on a mission to remove the friction between legal expertise and real-world impact -