ABOUT US<p>Casetext's mission is to make all the world's laws free and understandable. To do this, we have amassed an enormous database of legal texts, starting with over a million U.S. judicial opinions. A community of law professors, lawyers, law students, and citizens interested in the law are annotating these cases, adding insight and explanations.
Casetext (YC S13) is disrupting an $8 billion legal research market currently controlled by a duopoly (Westlaw and LexisNexis) that has put access to quality legal information behind a paywall.<p>Casetext was founded by the former Presidents of the Stanford Law Review and the Harvard Law Review. We quit our cushy jobs at big law firms to start Casetext. We’re also coders, and built the site ourselves. Now we need a talented CTO to help architect our platform and build a world-class team.<p>YOUR ROLE<p>As CTO, you will help take on the interesting and difficult technological challenges faced in making all the world’s laws free and understandable. You will help build a search engine that accurately finds the best legal document out of millions, a community-based site based around annotating legal texts, and advanced analytics drawn from our immense and growing dataset of laws. As our first technical hire, you’ll also help build our culture and define how we work as a team.<p>As a key member of our team you will be rewarded with substantial equity and a great salary. We are based in the Bay Area (South Bay).<p>~Who we're looking for~<p>Our ideal candidate has:<p>- Extensive experience writing awesome code (Casetext is programmed in Python/Django, but if you're a Rails guy/gal we should still talk) and working with a complex back-end architecture.<p>- Experience building and growth hacking an online community (e.g. Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Stack Overflow, Yelp, LinkedIn, etc.)<p>- Experience with search, natural language processing, and analyzing large collections of data.<p>- Experience scaling a company and growing an engineering team, ideally as a CTO of another company.<p>- A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment.<p>- A high value on shipping code rapidly and iterating.<p>Bonus points for:<p>- A belief that the making the law free and understandable has tremendous value to society.<p>- Being an active member of an online community (e.g. you are a Yelp Elite member, are a heavy Wikipedia editor, have a ton of karma on Reddit, etc.) - An eye for design/UI/UX.<p>- An ability to communicate with both technical and nontechnical folks.<p>- A love of The Wire and/or Arrested Development.<p>~How to apply~<p>Shoot us an email at jobs@casetext.com.