Full Stack Engineer

About the Company

Adalat AI is building an end-to-end justice tech stack that automates manual and clerical pain points in courtrooms, giving judges back time to focus on what matters most: decision-making and delivering justice. Our solutions — from AI-powered transcription in Indian languages to case-flow management and document navigation — are now deployed across 11 states, covering 23% of India's judiciary. Backed by leading technology companies and funders, incubated at MIT and Oxford, and now part of YCombinator, Adalat AI is working to eliminate judicial delays and expand access to timely justice. Founded by a team with backgrounds in law, technology, and economics from Harvard, Oxford, MIT, and IIIT Hyderabad, we are scaling rapidly across India and the Global South.

Role Overview

We're hiring a Full stack Developer to own and deliver end-to-end features for our courtroom transcription platform. You'll be working across the stack on real-time audio playback, backend services, database design, to deliver beautiful UX for busy judges. You'll also help shape our design system and collaborate with a small team of elite builders shipping impactful features fast.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade frontends using Next.js, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS.
• Work with backend services written in Go and databases in Postgres.
• Collaborate closely with design and legal teams to ship end-to-end features.
• Take ownership of full features — from database schema design to React components.
• Uphold high standards with extensive unit tests, linters and end-to-end tests in both frontend and backend.
• Proactively suggest and prototype new ideas to improve the product.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience working on production JavaScript/TypeScript codebases.
• Proven experience shipping complex UIs and building reusable React components.
• Familiarity with Go backend services and Postgres database design.
• Strong focus on reducing user pain and improving speed and accessibility.

Bonus: Experience working with audio APIs and GraphQL.

What You Will Achieve in a Year

• Developed expertise in audio processing and playback on the web.
• Helped build a design system that's accessible and loved by real-world users.
• Contributed meaningfully to improving access to justice at scale.

Join Our Team

If you're driven by meaningful work and want to build technology that changes how justice is delivered — we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of a team that ships fast, thinks deeply, and works on problems that matter.

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