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Senior Software Engineer, Automation & Developer Tools
Everlaw INC · 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting says it won’t sponsorIts own wording says sponsorship is unavailable.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Everlaw INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles9 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $136k–$162k, median $162k. Most were filed at wage level I (38%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 1 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
As a Software Engineer, Automation & Developer Tools at Everlaw, you will be a key architect of our quality culture, helping to shape automated testing at legal technology’s fastest-growing SaaS company. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving our CI/CD pipelines, facilitating advanced automation techniques, and serving as a technical mentor for our QA team. We are looking for a proactive engineer who is not just a practitioner of automation, but a visionary—someone always on the lookout for new approaches to ensure our platform remains robust as we pursue our mission to promote justice by illuminating truth. In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will sit within our Engineering department, acting as a vital bridge between Development and QA. Other engineers become your "users"; building the tooling, templates, and documentation that allow teams to implement and improve automation seamlessly will have a multiplicative impact. By participating in the Testing Guild and conducting thoughtful code reviews, you will ensure that our automation standards remain high and our release cycles stay efficient and reliable. Skills you are expected to possess: • Expertise in at least one major programming language: Java, Python, Javascript, C++ • Fluency with Data Structures and Algorithms • Experienced with usage of design patterns and coding best practices • Designed, built, maintained, tested, and launched cloud-based software • Led multi-developer efforts, including planning, technical breakdown, and coordination • Mentored other engineers and consulted on issues within areas of expertise Getting started • We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. [And you’ll spend meaningful time getting to know your direct reports and discover what excites and challenges them.] • We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1. In your role, you'll... • Refine and evolve testing infrastructure and tooling that enables engineers to ship high-quality features at scale • Design, implement, and maintain automated testing systems using tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI and Cypress. • Create internal tools that improve developer productivity and shorten iteration cycles • Partner closely with DevOps to optimize test execution and reliability within CI/CD pipelines • Drive best practices in testing, observability, and release confidence across the engineering org • Research and implement new automation approaches - including the use of AI - to stay ahead of industry trends and keep our testing infrastructure cutting-edge. • Collaborate with developers to interpret code coverage results and identify strategic areas for new test investment. • Mentor QA Engineers on all topics related to automation, helping them troubleshoot technical blockers and uplevel their scripting skills. About you • You have a BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent coursework. • You have at least 3 years of experience working deeply with Cypress for web application automation. • You have demonstrated expertise in using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI or GitLab to create and manage workflows. • You are experienced in API testing and understand how to validate data across different layers of an application. • You have a mentorship mindset and enjoy helping others grow their technical capabilities with Cypress and other automation techniques. • You are a proactive problem-solver who can navigate Linux-based syst