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Engineering Onboarding & Tech Stack Overview

This document serves as an onboarding guide for new engineers joining the AI Paralegal Systems team, detailing the first week checklist, team structure, project architecture, and tech stack. It outlines essential tasks, coding guidelines, and communication channels to facilitate integration into the team. Additional resources and expectations for team members are also provided to ensure a smooth onboarding experience.

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Engineering Onboarding & Tech Stack Overview

This document serves as an onboarding guide for new engineers joining the AI Paralegal Systems team, detailing the first week checklist, team structure, project architecture, and tech stack. It outlines essential tasks, coding guidelines, and communication channels to facilitate integration into the team. Additional resources and expectations for team members are also provided to ensure a smooth onboarding experience.

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Engineering Onboarding & Tech Stack Overview

Project/Org: AI Paralegal Systems


Audience: New Engineers, DevOps, ML Engineers, and QA
Prepared By: Engineering Leadership
Version: 1.0
Date: [Insert Date]

1. Welcome to the Team

Welcome to the Engineering Team at [Company Name]! We're building


cutting-edge Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) products that
blend LLMs, vector databases, and intelligent pipelines to transform
enterprise document handling. This document will guide you through
your onboarding process, tools, workflows, and responsibilities.

2. First 7 Days Checklist

Day Task

Day 1 Company orientation, meet the team, Slack access

Day 2 GitHub access, repo walkthrough

Day 3 Local setup of RAG stack (API, FAISS, Frontend)

Day 4 Explore chunking, embeddings & vector search

Day 5 Run unit tests, review code review guidelines

Day 6 Small bug fix or ticket

Day 7 Onboarding feedback + mentor sync-up


3. Team Structure

Role Description

Backend Engineer API, FAISS wrapper, document ingestion

Embeddings, prompt engineering, LLM


ML Engineer
optimization

Frontend
Streamlit or React-based interface
Developer

DevOps CI/CD, monitoring, deployments

QA Testing flows, validating prompt outputs

4. Project Architecture Overview

Your work will involve components like:

• Chunking Engine: Splits documents into semantic chunks

• Embedding Generator: Google 004 model for embedding


documents & queries

• Vector Store: FAISS or Pinecone (in some clients)

• Retriever: Semantic search on vectors

• LLM Interface: Mistral or client-preferred model

• Frontend: Streamlit for internal, React for client-facing apps

• Backend API: FastAPI (Python) exposed for end-to-end flow

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions → Docker → Kubernetes


5. Tech Stack Summary

Layer Stack

Language Python (FastAPI, LangChain), JavaScript (React)

Frontend Streamlit / ReactJS

Backend FastAPI, Celery (task queues)

Embedding Google 004, OpenAI (fallback)

Vector DB FAISS (local), Pinecone (prod optional)

LLM Mistral, Open-source models, or client-specific LLM

Database PostgreSQL, Redis (cache/queues)

Infra Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

Monitoring Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry

Collab Tools Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub

6. GitHub Repositories

Repo Name Description

ai-paralegal-backend Core backend, document chunking, API

ai-paralegal-frontend Streamlit UI

rag-embeddings Embedding pipelines and testing scripts

devops-infra Docker, K8s manifests, monitoring setup

test-suite Unit + integration tests for end-to-end flow


7. Local Dev Setup

Minimum Requirements

• Python 3.10+

• Docker & Docker Compose

• Node.js (if working on React frontend)

• VSCode / PyCharm recommended

Steps

1. Clone repos:
git clone https://github.com/your-org/ai-paralegal-backend.git

2. Create .env files from templates

3. Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start services:
docker-compose up

8. Coding Guidelines

• Follow PEP8 and use black for formatting

• All features must include:

o Unit tests (pytest)

o Type hints (mypy)

o Inline comments for complex logic

• Use feature branches and submit PRs for review before merging
9. Slack Channels

Channel Purpose

#eng-general Announcements and team-wide updates

#rag-ml Embedding & LLM-related discussions

#frontend-dev UI queries and deployments

#infra-alerts Monitoring & CI/CD alerts

#support Internal testing and issues

10. Expectations & Values

• Own your features from design to deployment

• Be proactive in reviewing PRs

• Test rigorously before pushing to main

• Ask questions early—no one builds in isolation

• Follow security & compliance mandates for client data

11. Additional Resources

• 📘 RAG Workflow Diagram (see internal Notion)

• 🧪 Test Cases Reference – /test-suite/docs/

• 📦 Model Snapshots – /models/

• 🔐 Security Onboarding – Contact DevSecOps

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