Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Lawhive; City of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering law firm in London is seeking an experienced engineer to build the next evolution of its AI-native legal platform. This mid-senior level role involves collaborating with designers and product managers, taking ownership of software throughout the development lifecycle. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in TypeScript and cloud infrastructure, thrive in dealing with ambiguity, and be passionate about improving products for users. Competitive salary range of £90K to £140K.

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity

33 days' annual leave

Pension contribution via Nest

20% off legal fees

Top-spec equipment

Regular team building activities

Qualifications

• Strong experience working with TypeScript to build products.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience running services in production.

Responsibilities

• Build the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform.
• Work with designers, product managers, and AI researchers.
• Manage the software from design to production.

Skills

Strong experience with TypeScript

Experience with infrastructure as code

Experience running services in production

Ability to deal with ambiguity

Product focus

Expertise in a software engineering area

Tools

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Postgres

Terraform

Job description

This range is provided by Lawhive. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

About Lawhive

Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone.

The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core.

Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers.

Lawhive Labs is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law.

We’re backed by top-tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in December 2024, we secured $40M Series A funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team, representing one of the five largest Series A rounds in Europe for 2024.

We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US—and we’re just getting started.

Engineering at Lawhive

We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, relied on by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US, and beyond.

There are lots of problems we have yet to solve, and plenty we’re not aware of yet! In the next 12 months, we’re focused on:

• Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions. We’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction
• Building modularity and country independence into the heart of our platform. We’ve recently expanded to the US and is building the world’s first global consumer law firm
• Full stack AI-native legal services: we’re not only building software, we’re an AI-native law firm

The Role

This role is all about building the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform - making a difference to our customers and propelling Lawhive to the next step-change in growth.

On a daily basis you’ll be working alongside designers, product managers, AI researchers, and the wider engineering group. As an engineer, you’ll be responsible for the inception of software in design and development phase, all the way through to testing, release, and running in production.

A day at Lawhive as an engineer might look something like:

• 9:30am: Team updates in standup
• 10am: Join a “Lawyer walkthrough” to learn more about how one of our marketplace lawyers use the product
• 11am: Review a “tech proposal” suggesting changes to one of our key services
• 11:30-5pm: Time for some heads down engineering time! Our core platform is a TypeScript based monorepo
• 4pm-5pm: Join our fortnightly engineering meeting to hear about other team’s updates, share what your team has been working on, and listen to a deep-dive talk

Our tech stack and day to day tools are:

• TypeScript for the majority of our applications, frontends, and microservices
• Python for data ingestion and our AI services
• AWS for our cloud infrastructure
• Postgres for our data storage
• Terraform for defining infrastructure as code

What You’ll Bring

You’ll be a great fit for our engineering hive if:

• You have strong experience working with TypeScript to build products, in design/product-led cross-functional teams
• You have experience working with infrastructure as code
• You have experience running services in production and responding to incidents
• You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and you thrive when given the ownership to bring clarity to what we’re building
• You have a product focus and are excited by the idea of learning more about our customers and shaping your work to make our product better for them
• You consider yourself an expert in one area of software engineering are excited by the idea of sharing that expertise with the rest of the team

Interview Process

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager
• Live technical assessment - systems design and pairing with two of our engineers
• Values interview with our CTO/Co-founder
• We offer!

UK Benefits

• 💰 Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
• ✈️ 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
• 💰 Pension contribution via Nest
• 💷 20% off legal fees through Lawhive
• 💻 Top-spec equipment - MacBook/Windows
• ⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Law Practice

Compensation Range: £90K - £140K