# Legal Systems Architect

**Company**: Block
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

As a Legal Systems Architect, you will lead the design and evolution of the systems that power Legal, combining software engineering, system architecture, and legal domain expertise.

## The Role

This role is responsible for shaping how Legal leverages automation, data, and AI to operate more effectively at scale. You will work across a complex technology landscape , including ELM, eDiscovery, CLM, and AI platforms , to define and implement solutions that connect systems, improve workflows, and enable more intelligent ways of working. A core focus of this role is to design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions, while also enabling all of Legal to develop, adopt, and scale their own AI-powered workflows. This position requires a high degree of ownership, technical expertise, and adaptability. The ideal candidate must proactively identify strategic opportunities, and develop solutions that align immediate needs with the long-term architectural vision.

## Responsibilities

- Define and evolve the architecture of legal systems, ensuring they are scalable, cohesive, and adaptable over time

- Identify and drive high-impact opportunities to improve legal workflows through automation, integration, and AI

- Apply a strategic and creative approach to solving complex legal and operational challenges

- Lead the design and implementation of solutions leveraging AI (Claude, Harvey, internal LLM platforms)

- Translate legal team experimentation into scalable, reliable, and production-ready solutions, establishing patterns, best practices, and guardrails that allow Legal to safely and effectively leverage AI.

- Build and oversee integrations across DocuSign CLM, Brightflag, Tonkean, and AODocs and other Legal tools

- Develop APIs, automations, and data pipelines to connect systems and reduce manual effort

- Leverage Databricks/Snowflake and internal data platforms for analytics and AI workflows

- Provide technical leadership for eDiscovery and Information Governance workflows

- Operate as a hands-on technical lead, building and guiding long-term evolution

- Influence how Legal approaches technology with balance of innovation and risk

- Adapt to evolving priorities while maintaining long-term system design

## Requirements

- 7–10+ years in software engineering, systems engineering, or architecture roles

- Strong programming skills (Python, JavaScript, or similar)

- Experience integrating SaaS platforms and APIs

- Hands-on AI tools experience (Claude, Codex, Copilot, etc.)

- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous environments

- Deep ELM/eBilling experience (Brightflag preferred)

- Strong eDiscovery experience (EDRM lifecycle)

- Understanding of legal workflows (contracts, billing, discovery)

- Experience with data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript
- AI
- ELM
- eDiscovery
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- SaaS platforms
- APIs

### Nice to have
- Claude
- Codex
- Copilot
- Brightflag

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