Lead Software Engineer
$74k - $114kFull-time
MMD Services
Salary: $74,000 - 114,000 per year Requirements:
- At least 8 years of experience, including a track record of making technical decisions and mentoring others
- Hands-on experience developing production-ready solutions with embedded AI
- Strong experience with .NET, React, and Azure, including container-based infrastructure and infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools such as Codex
- Ability to complete projects independently and solve problems creatively
- Strong communication skills, including presenting well-researched options to inform business decisions
- Experience in large enterprise environments with complex team structures and stable deployment processes
- Lead technical decisions for one of our three AI engineering pods
- Develop production-grade AI solutions for areas including litigation, M&A, finance, and HR
- Drive projects through to completion with minimal oversight
- Gather business context and present well-researched options to support technical decisions
- Mentor and guide developers on the pod
- Contribute across the stack, including .NET, React, Azure, Python workers, plugin development, and MCP servers
- Use AI-assisted coding tools such as Codex in day-to-day development
- AI
- Azure
- Embedded
- Support
- MCP
- Python
- React
- ASP.NET
- Cloud
More:
We are a global law firm with roots in Chicago dating back nearly 160 years, and our lawyers work across more than 20 offices on four continents. We advise major companies on high-stakes transactions and disputes, and our Data & AI organization brings modern, product-grade engineering practices to the legal industry. Our teams build custom AI applications, including document extraction and classification, privilege-log review, M&A contract analysis, and summaries of complex documents. This Lead Software Engineer role combines hands-on development with technical leadership and is hybrid, with three days onsite in Chicago, Illinois. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider applicants without regard to protected characteristics under applicable law.
last updated 43 week of 2026
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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