Legal Document Automation Developer
About NetLaw
NetLaw is a tech-enabled estate planning platform serving wealth management firms through an MSO structure. We power the estate planning services of an affiliated law firm, Hargrove Firm, with attorneys across 50 states delivering estate plans for the $1–50M wealth segment. We've grown 210% in the past year, are backed by institutional capital, and count multiple top 10 wealth management firms among our partners.
About the Role
We're looking for a Legal Document Automation Developer to join our team of document automation experts working on NetLaw 's legal product.
In this role, you'll build and maintain automated legal document templates—including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and other estate planning instruments—using sophisticated conditional logic to transform complex legal language into intelligent, dynamic documents.
Important: This is not a general legal assistant, paralegal, or software engineering role. We are specifically seeking professionals who have personally built automated legal document templates using document automation platforms. Experience preparing legal documents alone is not sufficient.
This is meticulous, high-stakes work. The documents you automate are legally binding instruments that protect families and their legacies. A misplaced clause, a broken condition, or an incorrect variable isn't a minor bug — it's a real-world consequence. You'll thrive here if you find deep satisfaction in getting every detail exactly right.
Success in this role depends on experience—not just familiarity—with legal document automation. We are looking for candidates who have personally built and maintained production templates containing sophisticated conditional logic, tested numerous client scenarios, debugged template behavior, and worked closely with attorneys to translate legal requirements into reliable automated documents. If your experience is limited to preparing legal documents or using document automation software as an end user, this position is unlikely to be the right fit.
What You'll Do
- Build, test, and maintain automated document templates using conditional logic to handle complex legal scenarios and jurisdiction-specific variations
- Diagnose and resolve logic errors that appear only under specific combinations of client inputs.
- Investigate unexpected document outputs and trace issues back to template logic.
- Own template quality from initial development through testing, deployment, maintenance, and ongoing enhancements.
- Translate attorney-drafted legal language and specifications into dynamic, logic-driven templates
- Write and maintain template logic using IF/ELSE conditions, variables, loops, calculations, and reusable components to generate legally accurate documents across hundreds of client scenarios.
- Rigorously test document outputs across a wide range of input combinations to verify that every conditional path produces accurate, compliant documents
- Collaborate with attorneys, product managers, and engineers to clarify requirements — and proactively ask questions when specifications are ambiguous or incomplete
- Document your work clearly so templates remain maintainable as the product evolves
- Continuously learn new tools, automation platforms, and estate planning concepts as our product grows
- Maintain production templates that generate thousands of estate planning documents annually across all 50 states.
What We're Looking For
Minimum qualifications are strictly required:
- Direct experience designing, building, and maintaining production document automation templates used by attorneys or clients.
- Experience with conditional logic
- Experience systematically testing generated document output across multiple client scenarios and edge cases.
Candidates without this experience will not be considered.
Required Experience & Skills
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience in legal document automation — building templates with conditional logic i