Backend Engineer

Discernis builds AI driven document intelligence for high stakes legal work, focusing on security and reliability. The Backend Engineer will build and extend services for their document platform, collaborating with engineering leads and AI engineers on impactful problems.

Responsibilities:

• Build and extend core backend services that power document ingestion, processing, and analysis
• Build and maintain the APIs used by our frontend and internal AI services
• Develop pipelines for PDFs, Office files, email containers, and OCR driven workflows
• Improve performance across database access patterns and background task systems
• Strengthen reliability through thoughtful testing, observability, and clean service boundaries
• Contribute to authentication, authorization, and secure system design
• Work with our search and AI engineers to support large scale indexing and retrieval