🚀 About Adalat AI Adalat AI is re-architecting India’s courts with an end-to-end justice tech stack. Our speech-to-text, OCR and case-flow tools already serve 10 states and 15 % of all courtrooms . Backed by global foundations and built by alumni of Harvard, MIT, Oxford and IIIT-H , we ship technology that accelerates justice the way UPI accelerated payments. 👩‍💻 About the Role We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to own the core services that power real-time courtroom transcription, ML pipelines and secure document workflows. You’ll work side-by-side with our founders, ship fast, and set engineering standards for a stack that must scale to 10 000+ courtrooms, eight hours a day . 🔧 What You’ll Do Design, build and operate Golang micro-services, event-driven workflows and serverless functions Model complex legal data and build APIs consumed by web, mobile and ML teams Create cost-efficient, horizontally scalable systems that survive patchy bandwidth and high concurrency Partner with ML researchers to productionise ASR, semantic-search and feedback-loop pipelines Champion observability (Prometheus/NewRelic), CI/CD and zero-downtime deploys Mentor engineers and pitch PoCs for the next big product bets 🛠 Our Tech Golang · GCP · EventBridge / Kafka · PostgreSQL & DynamoDB · Kubernetes & Helm · Docker · GitHub Actions · GraphQL Prometheus / NewRelic ✅ You’re Probably a Fit If You Have 5–8 years building distributed systems in production Speak fluent Go (or similar) and know your way around queues, caches and sharded DBs Have shipped on Kubernetes, automated with CI/CD and debugged with proper metrics + traces Care about clean domain models, security, and the craft of writing maintainable code Bonus : GraphQL, full-text search, streaming pipelines, encryption at rest/in-transit 🌱 In Your First Year You’ll Roll out a backend that supports 10 000+ courtrooms running 8–10 hours daily Stand up ML infra for voice-first editing, semantic search and continuous model retraining Help courts create, manage and share highly-classified legal documents at national scale 🎁 Perks Remote-first, flexible hours & unlimited PTO Generous maternity / paternity leave Autonomy, ownership and a no-ego team of builders Direct access to Harvard/MIT/Oxford networks & L&D stipends 📬 How to Apply Email careers@adalat.ai with the subject “Backend Engineer (Lead)” —include a résumé or GitHub and a short note on the hardest system you’ve ever scaled. We know impostor syndrome is real—if you’re close on the reqs, please apply. Show more Show less