Software Engineer

Methodfi; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London seeks a Backend Software Engineer with experience in Python and backend systems. The role involves developing and maintaining an innovative AI-driven product in commercial real estate transactions, requiring strong collaboration with a dynamic team. Competitive salary and flexible working hours included.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary

Matched pension contributions

Flexible working hours and location

25 days paid holiday

Professional development budget

Cycle-to-work scheme

Inclusive community events

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch.
• Proficiency in managing and scaling applications in a cloud environment.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of the design and development of key features.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define user stories.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to improve application quality.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Experience with FastAPI

Experience with SQLAlchemy

Experience with Terraform

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Ability to implement automated testing

Job description

🚀 We’re on a mission to make real estate transactions smarter, faster, and friction-free.

🏢 Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, yet the legal processes and tools behind it remain slow, manual, and underinvested. Lawyers must review dense documents line by line and piece together information across silos, all while clients demand faster, more transparent due diligence.

🤖 That's where we come in. Orbital Copilot is the AI assistant built exclusively for commercial real estate law. Developed with former practicing real estate lawyers, it accelerates complex due diligence by up to 70% while delivering legal-grade precision.

🤝 We're trusted by leading firms like Goodwin, BCLP, and Ropes & Gray to remove the busywork so legal teams can focus on what they do best: applying sharp legal judgment, delivering standout client service, and getting deals over the line faster.

💡 Working at Orbital means joining a team that's reimagining how real estate transactions get done - moving fast, working collaboratively, and giving people the ownership to make a real impact from day one.

Role Overview 🔎

We're looking to speak to Backend heavy Software Engineers, from mid to senior level as we've launched the industry’s first legal AI Agent and have seen phenomenal growth in both revenue and usage in the last 18 months. Orbital Copilot is a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted. We have a successful existing product which helps real estate professionals extract key information & create reports from legal documents. We’re evolving this product to add further value to our user base.

You’ll have end-to-end ownership of the design and development of key features for our web application, as well as the underlying services and infrastructure that support it. You’ll be joining a small, dynamic and fast‑paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact. You’ll be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement. You will be supported by a cross‑functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers.

You’ll get a chance to: 👩💻 👨💻

• Work on complex Backend, and Infrastructure projects
• Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
• Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
• Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, VP of AI, legal domain experts, data scientists and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non‑functional requirements
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
• Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications

You should apply if you have: ✍️

• Proficiency in Python with proven experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch.
• Experience with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy for robust backend solutions.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Proficiency in managing and scaling applications in a cloud environment.
• Experience with k8s.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
• Ability to implement and execute automated testing for quality assurance.

It would also be nice if you have:

• Have experience with Frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js
• Experience working with LLM’s and OpenAI's API in particular
• Built or integrated with highly secure, fault tolerant APIs
• Experience building high performance, distributed systems at scale
• Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD

Benefits: 🌟

• Competitive starting salary
• Matched pension contributions
• Flexible working hours and location
• 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme
• An inclusive community enjoying all‑company off‑sites, lunches and socials

🔒 Security is everyone’s responsibility at Orbital. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards. Spot something unusual? Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on.

💡 At Orbital, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you.

💰 This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on several factors, which may include job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and business requirements.